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PSU/Hillsboro Schools
Three new schools are under way in the Hillsboro District.
Major Improvements Funded for Portland State
Portland - Recently approved funding will allow Portland State to move ahead with several major capital construction and deferred maintenance projects. Lincoln Hall, which houses the School of Fine and Performing Arts, will undergo a $29.2 million upgrade, including seismic retrofits. The Sciences Teaching and Research Center—Science Building 2 houses many of the laboratories for science programs at PSU, as well as the Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Environmental Sciences departments, the Seismic Testing and Applied Research Lab, and other academic space.
Approximately $45.3 million will be used to expand and upgrade lab space in Science Building 2, improve hazardous waste management facilities, build-out space vacated by the State Public Health laboratories and Department of Environmental Quality, and other improvements that will better serve the University’s growing science and research needs. Additional funds have been identified for land acquisition and housing (site and amount to be determined), and $12 million for parking expansion, a critical need for an urban campus that has approximately 3,600 spaces for nearly 30,000 students, faculty and staff. The $561 million higher education capital construction budget for 2007–2009 (Senate Bill 5516) doubles the state-funded portion to $233 million from the $115 million provided in 2005–2007.
Hillsboro starts Three Schools Designed by Mahlum
Hillsboro - Hillsboro School District has begun simultaneous construction of three new elementary schools in a fast-track process that reflects an efficient “kit of parts” design first used by the district seven years ago.
Developed by Mahlum Architects and used by the district to build four elementary schools beginning in 2000, the process incorporates the same basic design elements in all the schools, thereby speeding up design time and saving planning dollars. The cafeteria, gymnasium, kitchen and offices areas will be similar in all three new schools, and each school will have a classroom wing.
All three 73,000-sq.-ft. two-story schools will have 20 classrooms, two kindergarten rooms, one computer room and three special education classrooms. They are designed to house 600 students each. Two schools ---No. 24 in Cornelius and No. 26 – will have a T-shaped configuration. The third school, No. 25, will have an L-shaped configuration.
Pods of four classrooms each will be located lengthways on the exterior wall to receive more natural light. They will open onto a hall and a common activity area that can be used for small group instruction and special activities. Because the activity area will be on the opposing exterior wall, it will have more daylight than in the earlier schools, when it was in the center of the four classrooms. Visibility into the common area will also be improved. |
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