When it opens in 2026, the renewed Forrestal Elementary School, located at Naval Station Great Lakes, about an hour and a half north of Chicago, is projected to serve a diverse student population of 580 students from both military and non-military families.
Scheduled for 2026 completion, the 26,800 sf project will include team-based learning classrooms, seminar rooms, collaboration spaces, advising offices and at its center, a school-wide Commons space that overlooks and engages with an exterior entry plaza.
The new 95,000-square-foot, four-story facility serves as the academic hub for 240 medical students annually and nearly 150 faculty and staff, as well as clinicians and staff from affiliated hospitals.
A panel discussion at the Fenestration and Glazing Industry Alliance 2024 Fall Conference covered several different uses and trends of safety-focused fenestration and glazing products, ranging from ballistic glass, school security and blast resistance.
Schools across the country are rapidly switching to solar power to meet their energy needs while gaining significant cost-savings, boosting climate resilience, and supporting workforce development, according to a new report from clean energy nonprofit Generation180.
Poettker Construction served as the construction manager and BLDD worked as the architect for the new 67,000-square-foot two-story elementary school, which replaces the outdated elementary space formerly located in two separate buildings.
Increasingly, our schools need to be well-appointed places of modern learning and also durable structures in the event of natural disasters such as Florida’s seasonal hurricanes.
Serving 750 students in grades 5 and 6, Azle Elementary School features several Tubelite aluminum framing systems for resilient, continuous use in the warm Texas climate.
Emerald Elementary School in Broomfield, Colorado is a net-zero-ready, public school serving students in pre-kindergarten through fifth grade. Designed and constructed to meet the highest green building standards, the new school supports the district’s aggressive sustainability and energy efficiency goals.
The main design concept for the lower school building was to reinforce the school’s collegiate atmosphere, while interweaving a fun, creative, and colorful whimsy into the facility, as depicted by the bright blue metal and brick facade with red, almond, and bronze trim.