The Wyoming State Legislature established the School Facilities Department (SFD) in 2002 to oversee construction of K-12 schools throughout the state. Since then, Wyoming has built more than 75 new schools and spent an estimated $3.5 billion on the construction, renovation and maintenance of its educational facilities.
MANCHESTER, Mass. — A nearly 21,500-square-foot renovation and expansion of the Brookwood School in Manchester, Mass. was completed in late 2014 after just 18 months of construction. The project wrapped up three months ahead of schedule and came in under budget.
JACKSON, Mich. — Construction is underway on a new dormitory at Jackson College, while renovations at the school’s Bert Walker Hall are scheduled to start in May.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Construction on the University of Florida’s (UF) new 97,000-square-foot Infinity Hall marked an important milestone on Jan. 30 when the structure reached its full height.
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will soon be home to one of the largest on-site university solar arrays in the country, according to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency statistics.
OTIS, Colo. — Otis School District, located in northeastern Colorado near the Kansas and Nebraska borders, started 2015 off in a big way. In early January, the district celebrated the completion of the new 70,000-square-foot school building that will serve generations of PK-12 Otis Bulldogs.
WORCESTER, Mass. — Worcester Polytechnic Institute’s (WPI) 89,000-square-foot Faraday Hall, a residence hall across from Gateway Park, the university’s 11-acre life sciences-based campus, opened to students in fall 2013.
EVANSTON, Ill. — Construction on Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management building is well underway after breaking ground in November 2013. The five-story, 415,000-square-foot building will serve as a global hub for the school, and is slated for completion in late 2016.
LAUREL, Md. — Monarch Global Academy Contract School opened in October 2014, bringing the globally minded International Baccalaureate curriculum to nearly 500 students.
CINCINNATI — In December, the University of Cincinnati (UC) became the first public university in the country to issue Green Bonds for new construction. Then, the school began issuing the Series 2014C bonds to support the majority of costs related to the $35 million renovation of Scioto Hall.
