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Elementary School #5 (Darden Hill Rd.)
Budget: $37,500,000
Scope of Work:
- Construct a new elementary school on the Darden Hill Rd. site to be opened in August 2021
- Click here to view a map image of the DSISD-owned property
Completed Work:
- Architects gathered stakeholder input at community meetings; the input received will assist architects in creating schematic designs for the site and the building.
- A site feasibility study was created showing possible locations of the elementary school, while leaving open the potential to add other buidlings on the site. The feasibility study was presented to the Board on Sept. 16, 2019.
- Design Input Committee met throughout the fall of 2019 with the architects and representatives from the DSISD Facilities and Construction Department
- Traffic studies
- Schematic Design process led into the Design Development phase
- Guaranteed Maximum Price (GMP) #1 and #2 approved
- Erosion controls and sitework
- Site clearing and grubbing
- Building pad
- Foundation drilled piers
- Site storm sewer work
- Building cast in place concrete retaining walls
- Site stone retaining walls
The school district and the county each have conducted traffic studies of this area. Based on the county’s plan to establish a traffic circle at the intersection of Sawyer Ranch Road and Darden Hill Road, and recommendations from the district and county project engineers, the entrance to Elementary #5 will align with the roundabout. Engineers currently are updating designs that will keep a large tree intact and maximize the traffic efficiency on Darden Hill Road; these will be posted when completed.
Current Work:- Foundation work
- Site utilities
- Detention pond
- Wastewater septic field
- Georthermal loop well
- Tilt wall panels
- Structural steel work
Next Steps:- Complete foundation work
- Continue concrete tilt wall panels
- Continue structural steel work
- Continue geothermal wells
- Finish site utilities
- Site dirt work
Groundbreaking Ceremony, June 22, 2020
PRESENTATIONS AND UPDATESUpdate on Elementary #5 (9.4.19)
Schematic Design Presentation (12.16.19)
Design Update (1.21.20)
Update on Elementary #5 (5.14.20)
Neighborhood Meeting Presentation (6.2.20)
