Project Experience / K-12 Education

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Del Norte High School
San Diego, Calif.

Barnhart Balfour Beatty completed one of the largest and most technologically advanced high schools in the country in 2009 in Poway, Calif.  The $104.5-million Del Norte High School is the fifth comprehensive high school in the Poway Unified School District and serves grades 9 through 12 on a 62-acre campus in northern San Diego County. Barnhart Balfour Beatty finished two months ahead of schedule and $2 million under budget thank, in part, to a unique and specialized delivery method, combined with the use of Building Information Modeling (BIM) software.

Barnhart Balfour Beatty provided Lease-Leaseback services to the district to construct the 212,000-SF, circular designed campus with  features that include 48 standard classrooms, 12 science labs, 5 art labs, music classrooms, a sports stadium, swimming pool, library, research center, gymnasium, performing arts complex and a  two-story administrative facility.  A school-wide data and multi-media networking system allows every workstation on campus to access a central database of information to share relevant software or access the Internet. The network allows users to create, send and receive video communications.

Built to serve approximately 2,250 students,  Del Norte is designed under the Collaborative for High Performance Schools (CHPS) program, to provide students and staff with an environment that is not only energy and resource efficient, but also contains the resources and amenities needed for a quality education.

The school has been featured in the San Diego Business Journal, San Diego Daily Transcript and California Construction.

 

Quick Facts

CLIENT: Poway Unified School District
ARCHITECT: NTD Architecture
PROJECT SIZE: 212,200 SF
CONSTRUCTION COST:
 $104.5 Million

 

Project Awards

  • 2009 Build San Diego Merit Award, Associated General Contractors, San Diego Chapter

 

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