The Lehigh Valley Charter Arts High School is an 83,000-square-foot, three-story building located in downtown Bethlehem, PA. The space includes a 368-seat theater, green rooms, rehearsal studios for dance and music, and an art gallery. It also offers outdoor learning space in a safe, urban environment. The second-floor, outdoor area boasts 225 square feet of planted raised beds that qualifies as green space for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED).
The school enables students from a broad geographic area to maximize their unique talents while also gaining a comprehensive high school education. The curriculum ranges from traditional core classes to college-level options in the arts.
Acing Tight Deadlines to Build a Sustainable High School with Total Precast
To open its doors for the 2015 school year, success of the project depended on an accelerated timeline and continued construction through the winter months.
See how passive fire resistance, inherent sound attenuation, and space versatility of this total precast school were a perfect fit in a free case study from the PCI Mid-Atlantic Chapter.
What’s Inside:
- The project’s key details, including the scope, timeline, and team members
- The strategy used to achieve sustainability and LEED Gold status
- The results and how precast concrete helped meet structural and design goals
Download the case study to see how the use of precast accelerated project timelines enabled the team to work year-round, achieve LEED Gold status, and meet both structural and design goals to ensure maximum space for students’ unique talents to flourish through high-quality education.
“The school has twenty-one classrooms, a dedicated space for all majors, a green roof, a black box theater, and a 368-seat performance theater. A total precast solution met the owner's goals for sound isolation and structural versatility on an aggressive schedule.” - Gary Knepper, Director of Sales and Marketing, Nitterhouse Concrete Products
Achieve More with Precast
By utilizing precast concrete solutions, architects, engineers, and contractors came together to ace tight deadlines and build a sustainable high school from start to finish in under a year. Not only did the team provide a sustainable, LEED Gold status building for 600 students to enjoy, but it did so on an accelerated, cost-effective timeline.
