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Burien - Highline School district students fumbling around for answers can't use noise from the nearby Seattle-Tacoma Inter- national Airport as a stalling tactic anymore. The district is in the final phases of a noise abatement and construction program.
Using funds from a $189.5 million bond issue passed in 2002 and $50 million from the Port of Seattle, State of Washington and the Federal Aviation Administration for noise abatement, the district has renovated or replaced 13 schools.
"The schools were built close to 50 years ago, and no major work had been done," said Catherine Carbone Rogers, interim communications specialist with the school district. Some were demolished and rebuilt.
The district chose high quality windows, added insulation, air conditioning or natural ventilation and a standard four pipe system chiller with water supplied boilers. Each room has its own HVAC unit with individual controls. An emergency generator runs the life-safety equipment in case of a power loss.
The school district follows a standard design process that includes a 16-person committee comprised of teachers, community members and the design team. Schools built under the program were 2-stories, 60,000-sq.-ft. and contained a minimum of 26 classrooms.
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