Boots on the ground with Dr. Weldy
Our major campus improvement project is well underway. Superintendent Dr. Nick Weldy said contractors are about six months into the project after a May 10 groundbreaking. During that time, underground utilities have been the main area of focus. Major electrical, natural gas, and plumbing lines were replaced before students and staff returned. Construction is expected to take four-and-a-half years to complete.
“This project is focused on upgrading safety and security systems and protocols, enhancing career-technical and academic programming, modernizing major utilities, and providing more space to accept additional students who are currently being turned away,” Weldy said. In recent years, MVCTC has served 1,650 to 1,800 high school students in dozens of fields ranging from carpentry to machining and computer coding to agriculture. But Weldy said MVCTC has been turning away hundreds of students because it did not have room. MVCTC expects to be able to serve well over 2,000 high school students on the main campus every year once the project is finished.
“We are working with the construction, technology, and safety/security contractors to ensure the facility has modern safety and security systems in place,” Weldy said. MVCTC officials have also said the project will allow the school to upgrade equipment in programs like welding and machining, so students are training on tools employers use now. The construction work is led by Gilbane Building Company and is scheduled to take until the end of 2023 to complete. Some sections that are being remodeled and expanded will be open as early as December 2020.
“The MVCTC will continue to offer all career-technical programs throughout the entire remodeling and expansion project,” Weldy said. “These are career technical programs in demand by area business and industry leaders.”
Construction Updates Taken Place To Date:
• Early site work including asphalt, and underground utilities
• Building pad work
• Underground plumbing installed
• Site demo, as needed
• Soil stabilization, as needed
• Footing and other structural improvements
Per Matt Niemeyer, Senior Project Manager for Gilbane Building Company, ”There was a massive amount of work completed over the summer which allows the next phases to start as well as allowed school to begin on time. More importantly, the project has been set-up to allow for safe travels of students and staff as well as separating them from construction areas.”
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“Currently we are working on the first two significant additions which we refer to as the north and south wings. The building pad for the south wing will be wrapping up in the coming weeks, ready for building foundation and underground plumbing work. The north wing has also started with building foundations being installed and plumbing to be placed in the near future. The next major milestone is to have both the north and south wings turned over to the district and ready to start classes by January 2021”, shared Niemeyer.
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