Physical Needs Assessment

A physical needs assessment was completed through facility tours by the district staff in conjunction with their design team. The design team included BLDD Architects, the district's architect, and engineers from WRF Engineering to review building systems. This team together walked the buildings, coordinated the needs identified, and identified order of magnitude dollar figures related to the current facility needs. This team will continue to work together as we review potential master plan solutions, applying similar thinking to the development of those planning budgets in the future.

All needs at the buildings relate to repair or replacement of existing systems and do NOT include any functional improvements to the facilities. For site items, work includes necessary maintenance of existing paving, fields and tracks, but no expansion or addition of additional facilities.

Following our assessment, it must be stated that the facilities are very well cared for and maintained. Most of the work identified is deferred maintenance. That is work that has been needed but was not able to be fully performed due to budget constraints and the need to focus facility dollars towards housing our growing student population.

Building Components

Total Physical Needs

To put our current buildings as well as the upcoming information into context, the “value” to build this square footage all new today would cost north of $83M. So you can already see the value in finding efficient use of our current facilities when able.

Physical needs by facility

Comparing each building, the most work is found at the High School, followed by Arthur Elementary and then Atwood Hammond and Lovington Grade Schools. This variation is due in part to large system needs at the High School and Arthur grade school related to their HVAC systems.

Physical needs by building area

It is also important to review these needs relative to the size of the facilities as well – as can be seen here, the HS and Arthur elementary school still have a higher need but the impact of building size is clearly shown relative to the HS needs as its $/SF becomes more closely aligned with the other buildings, while the condition of Atwood Hammond and Lovington begin to align.

physical needs by category

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