Colonial Middle School Site Design

G&A, working with KCBA Architects, provided site design and construction management services for the new 3-story 126,000 SF middle school building.  The project involved demolition of the existing middle school and construction of the new school, parking, utilities, grading, new athletic fields, design of several big block retaining walls, and stormwater management facilities.  These facilities include above and below ground Stormwater Best Management Practices.

G&A prepared the stormwater management design and erosion and sediment control design and helped obtain Township and Montgomery County Conservation District (MCCD) approvals.  G&A worked closely with the design team and MCCD to prepare a phasing plan that satisfied Erosion and Sediment Control standards while allowing construction to proceed in a timely manner.

G&A provided geotechnical design for the big block retaining walls and prepared a hydrologic and hydraulic study of the tributary stream at the downstream corner of the site to meet Township  ordinance requirements for impacts to floodplains.

 

 

Client
KCBA Architects

Location
Plymouth Meeting, PA

Market Segment

Education

Contact

Andrew Schanck, P.E.
Project Manager

Athletic Track and Field Replacement

G&A also provided engineering design and landscape architecture services for the replacement of the existing middle school cinder track with a new competition-level synthetic track. The project involved demolition, grading, utilities, construction of the new track and field, and stormwater management facilities. The track and field includes a 400-meter track, high jump area, long jump approach and pit, shot put pad, associated painting and striping of track and field, new football field goal posts, relocated bleacher pad, benches, and fencing and gates around the track.

Due to the increase in facilities, a major amendment to the NPDES permit was needed. G&A designed a new underground infiltration basin on the track site, which received runoff from a linear channel drain system designed on the inside edge of the synthetic track. We prepared stormwater management calculations and erosion and sediment control design as well as provided construction management services and observation of the underground infiltration basin construction.