Work Commences at Ground-Up SoCal K-5 School
By Eric Althoff
MENIFEE, Calif.鈥擟.W. Driver Companies is now at work on the $54.5 million Menifee Union School District Elementary School #15. The K-5 school鈥檚 construction will take place over 46 acres, with the campus designed in a horseshoe shape envisioned by DLR Group | BakerNowicki.
The 75,000-square-foot Riverside County school will be home to nearly two dozen classrooms as well as a dedicated kindergarten building. In addition, the new school will feature a modern library and information center, administration area, cafeteria as well as a large multipurpose room with a state-of-the-art audiovisual system.
On the exterior, the school will offer playgrounds, track fields, pickup/dropoff area, as well as a parking lot for over 100 vehicles and various spaces devoted to gatherings as well. Because of the extensive nature of the redesign of the parcel of land, street renovations to the adjoining Wickerd Road are also necessary.
When the school comes online in July 2024, it will be able to host approximately 600 students, according to estimates from the general contractor and designers.
鈥淭his is the second school we鈥檝e worked on for the Menifee Union School District, with Menifee Valley Middle School being the first,鈥 Andy Feth, project executive at C.W. Driver Companies, said in a statement in connection with the recent groundbreaking. 鈥淚n that instance, it was an intricate expansion of an existing campus, while this is a completely new build from the ground up.鈥
In a subsequent statement emailed to 咪咪影院, C.W. Driver personnel said that to keep the project moving along in a timely fashion, the general contractor had to get creative with its various partners considering the construction work experienced a rather sizable budget overrun.
鈥淢uch of the savings were realized during the short window between bid opening and award, which is a testament to the overall project team鈥檚 determination and hard work,鈥 said Eric Metzger, senior project manager for C.W. Driver.
Elsewhere in the Golden State, C.W. Driver鈥檚 education-related CV of K-12 projects includes their work at San Diego USD鈥檚 Nipaquay Elementary School, Grossmont UHSD鈥檚 El Capitan High School Events Center, San Dieguito UHSD鈥檚 Torrey Pines HS Modernization and Chino Valley USD鈥檚 New K-8 The Preserve II School. The firm boasts an educational portfolio of over 150 projects in its century-plus of existence.
C.W. Driver was founded in 1919, and offers expertise in the school construction sector entailing such expertise as construction management.