While most of the property that Wright City High School sits on remains largely quiet until students return for the beginning of classes next month, the work on the performance gym is, in fact, bustling under the July sun.
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While most of the property that Wright City High School sits on remains largely quiet until students return for the beginning of classes next month, the work on the performance gym is, in fact, bustling under the July sun.
Breanna Kolk, from Bond Architects, outlined the progress in the performance center’s construction to the R-II board during its July monthly meeting.
“They’ve got the roof decking on the gym itself,” Kolk said. “I was actually out there today and they’ve got insulation, cover board and most of the membrane down.”
While the roofing nears completion, many facets of the rest of the facility are in differing stages.
“They’ve got block walls for most of the perimeter complete,” Kolk said. “They’ve got a little section out still, so they can get equipment in and out, but most of it is up.”
Even though the building is yet to be completely sealed, the effort to build a barrier from the outside has begun as construction crews are working on the air vapor barrier.
Kolk said that the barrier is a work in progress as the differing portions of the performance gym are completed.
Kolk also showed the board photos around the locker room construction and the concrete slab that was laid for the gym floor.
“There is some electrical work going on in the new electrical room setup in the new addition,” Kolk said.
Board President Austin Jones questioned Kolk about a major milestone in the completion of the playing surface in the performance center.
“When do we anticipate the gym floor going in?” Jones asked.
“We don’t have a date on that right now,” Kolk said. “It would have to be fully airtight, watertight, and climate-controlled before we can do that.”
Jones asked about the need to add cost to the final stages of the gym’s construction regarding the floor.
“Do we anticipate a change order that says we’re going to have to remediate the floor so we’re going to have to do remediations?” Jones asked. “In the past, we have people come to us saying it’s too humid and that they had to lay this remediation stuff down. It usually costs us X amount of dollars, and we hem and haw around it, but we approve it. I think we’ve had to do it twice now, so she knows why I’m asking.”
“We should have no problems with that issue,” Kolk said.
