the school committee is that we we went out several months ago to go to a process of retaining struction management are these are folks that manage construction like the design  professionals they don't actually do the construction building of bricks and mortar we thought it would be the best opportunity to have really good information for construction pricing phasing logistics schedule and so forth have some history here in belmont with police in the wellington school and we felt that they were the most appropriate team they're very they come with some good credentials and we're going to hear now tonight their approach to managing the structure of managing an activity and this with students and teachers and other public entities happening in our high school while we take several years to build a new campus so high school a lot of phasing what i'm going to ask them to do is explain the construction logistics the process how they manage the site and then we'll finish that discussion with the special of when i could be will take place and will put up a question so we have mike you dan and i'll turn it over to you ready to go on with the presentation one of the project managers is working with the administrators to have a a large staff people as things really start to ramp up but  talk about construction traffic which is a little different than the traffic that you've all been talking about this is the traffic that will be occurring during the construction phase of the work we're going to talk about parking for the workers school actually overlap each other in an area of the building and so we can't build the entire new high school all at one time because we need to keep the existing high school operation so  and i'll show you a slide in slides that explains that but the st thing for us is to get the site ready and so that we can start the construction of the building and so what we call an early enabling phase which is right now we're looking at probably may april or may of next year twenty one thousand to start doing some of these early enabling work and the key components to that early enabling work are the in the final design and there's a road a ring road that comes around the back of the building and in that ring road are all of the new utilities for the site in the building and so a lot of what you see here are some of the existing utilities that are in place and we need to get those out of the way of our new construction so this st phase which is like i said in april may  need to we're going to install those utilities we're going to start to build some of the roads and in the areas that we can being sensitive to the operations of the school and so that we don't impact because you know if we start in april from april to june the site will still be occupied with students staff faculty so the goal here is do what we can without impacting school operations that's why you see sort of a row a piece of road another piece of road but not connected in between because in conversations through this planning process these five tennis courts are important and we don't want to take them offline until after the school years over other things like that so we want to get a jump on that and then when the students leave we can come back in and we can connect the road and finish off the utilities but we'll have a really good jump on the project and can be ready to start actual building construction couple of other actually just a couple of other key points in that phase we want to install a signal here will also you see a picture here the plan is for police details so that there is no confusion for pedestrians  if you see blue that means that is the occupied portion of the building where students staff faculty are still operating and then when you see ground this is the area that's the construction zone so this era this construction zone area which is the west side of the site is where is the st piece of the building that will be constructing it's the high school wing and during that phase they'll be a very strong separation a complete separation of the operating school and the construction site and make me want to talk for just a couple of seconds about location as well i'm getting them outside the front of the main educational way here again outside of our work zones and these are covered there jane walkways in case of emergency to get over there in a safe space and are able to get out of our  of that so we'll have the details there at each of those gates on the east side this will be become the main route for parent drop off access for the occupied side of the school coming up again a sort of a dual gate running clockwise through this portion of the site we're going to build because we're taking some parking area we're going to build temporary parking which will be a binder coat of asphalt to give back the parking that we're going to take when we start this construction work and access would be to come in and do drop off and then back out and  probably either straight down trowbridge or hit injure i think that's generally it for this phase so then i'm not to talk much about this particular slide in the only point i wanted to make with this is just to give you an idea this is the part we were just talking about which is the new construction of the high school this is the existing field house area this is the footprint of the th and  th grade wing which is what we call it's actually called phase three which is the last phase of the new building this dotted line represents the outline of the existing high school and so this is just back to my earlier point about  how there is an overlap which prevents us really from being able to build a new building all in one in one go around so we have to come back we have to take at least a portion of the building down and in order to make way for the new construction so everyone in this building will move into the new high school then we'll start to take this down so that we can build build a new phase three which is the th and th grade when you jump to the next  so just to talk about so this is i just took the overlay out but so now basically what we do is really flip flop the site and the west then becomes the occupied portion of the site  y schooling online fieldhouse online field online and parking between this parking area and the the rink parking i believe we're at about two hundred and forty parking spots which will more than meet the needs of the high school occupancy without right without students so an east end of the building this becomes our construction site and we we construct the th and th grade wing traffic in this phase for construction again two gates with police details  traffic coming up trowbridge in the gate clockwise rotation out the gate directly across from the side of my street so directly across from trowbridge and then come out and down trowbridge back to concord so that's the game plan and then school access in this scenario would be in in this entrance here so again the key points in this are students faculty staff are in their area construction vehicles construction workers construction operations are in the construction area no crossover totally separate from a traffic perspective from a worker perspective from from all from all that was there anything you know one other point we're not showing there's work sort of down down at this end of the site we're not showing it as part of phasing because there's a lot of flexibility and when that work gets done and so i think it's more of a conversation with the town about when it makes sense and when it's easiest and best to do the work we can be flexible about that so we've kind of left so i think one of the key points why no one of the key points of our traffic plan is we can't clog up the leonard intersection we can't clog up where hit injure and play in cross each other there's a lot of sort of really congested intersections that we do not want to add traffic to so for us our game plan in any phase of the project is our main route into now route to you know wife brook parkway concord avenue trucks coming in vehicles coming in and exiting that is the traffic pattern it's the same traffic pattern that we used when we built wellington it worked fine and you know we had to go a little bit further up into the neighborhood obviously to to to get that to happen but we wanted to stay out of that cushing square we want to stay out of cushing square and areas like that for a while so so we're really this is the this is the game plan in all the phases and  we did it well into what we'll do here is there's no lack of clarity with what the workers what the trades with the delivery drivers with anybody who's going to be coming to this site about how they get here and you know just a quick story we had in wellington we had a steel manufacturer that was coming from canada i remember seeing the cover sheet of all their bills of lading their own french i had no idea what they said well what i could read loud and clear in bold french was don't use any of the streets except concord avenue so  so it works fine and we buy it in the contract we make sure when we kick off with all the subcontractors you know exactly what needs to happen that they get all the delivery people to do it the right way and it will go fine so so one other another point is trade contractor parking we are going to control parking we're not going to leave it to the trades and the people coming to the site every day to find their own place to park because the when they find their own place to park they just park on the street and they park in the neighborhoods and they park in all the places that we don't want them so in order for that to not be a problem we have to provide them a place to park and so we this graphic just shows a few options that we've been discussing which are actually some of the churches in the area we actually all saints was what we used for wellington worked out perfectly they didn't use the parking lot during the week so we used the parking lot during the week i was actually it was a great it was a great plan it worked out really well so it's possible we talk to them again we talk to some of the churches that are closer  there's a couple of other options that we've discussed one is the l ife parking garage we could figure out a plan to have workers park there and the other is the incinerator site we've had some discussions about that but there are other moving parts in town related to the incinerator site right now which we get so it's an option and if it plays out that way great if not we'll have other options it's not something that we have to solve as we sit here right this minute but it will be solved before the st worker shows up on the job site and like i said the key point here is we need to provide them a place to park so that they don't go looking for themselves for mission i think my calculation was i think we plant plan on running on average somewhere between ten thousand one hundred and fifty it'll probably peak at my guess is two to fifty when we get to the real peak of construction  yeah so we just talked schedule briefly this is you know pulling areas is is the word and we're working through schematic design we're working on all the moving parts here but we have i mean it's actually a very detailed schedule that that backs up the dates that you see on this slide but so i'm just going to kind of walk through the key milestones as i mentioned in the st flight early utility enabling work april of one thousand will run through basically when the students come back in september the high school construction which would be the actual physical installation of foundations and steel erection and all of that work is approximately in this high school so this is again this is that phase it's just the west end of the building is about a two year project in and of itself running from june of one thousand dollars to july twenty one and then what we call the transition period which is when we finish construction and the high school moves from the existing building to the new building which would happen during that summer so that when the students come back in september of twenty one they come back to the new high school when at that point once we finish the high school we're going and and everyone's moved out of the existing building  we'll move over and start the work of you know sweeping the site over to turn the east side of the site into the construction zone and to actually start the construction of the middle school wing which would be  sometime in the summer depending on how the move goes and all of that so we're saying july could be august somewhere in that timeline certainly before the students come back to school and then that's a little that it's a smaller again schools finished the opportunity to move the students out of their current locations or move the teachers i guess out of their current locations into the new th and th grade wing and have all of the th and th graders sitting at their desks in the new building in september of two thousand and three so that's so that's the game plan and so you see construction complete august of two thousand and three a couple of sort of what i would call interim milestones or or points worth mentioning as we walk through this process pile installation which is the driving of the deep foundations for the high school are targeted for the summer of nineteen it will take three to four months somewhere in there to do that middle school operation will be you know because before we can start the foundation work in the middle school we have to take the existing building down so that pile driving operation will be in the january of two thousand and two to march of two thousand and two timeframe again a little less time because it's a smaller footprint dealing with the pool w be offline starting in july of one thousand and it will be offline until high school wing is turned over the reason for that is that the pool has a new structure built completely over the top of it which houses all of the mechanical during the summer so that we're not taking it offline during any of the school years of the locker rooms which get completely reconstructed the game plan right now is that we're going to take them offline in january of twenty one which is at the end of the high school construction process and keep them offline until the school finishes and so then the question is what are we going to do about locker rooms during the nd half of that school year and the answer plan right now is to put a modular building in place and put temporary locker rooms there during that period because we just don't have enough time to build out the locker rooms in the summer period there's too much work to do there we need more time than that so if we put a temporary locker room in place starting in january that will give us what we need to to get it built so that it will be done which turned over when the high school portion is turned over the last piece baseball and soccer fields  basically they come off line in june th and the new fields in the new configurations come online when the building is done because as you'll recall from the our site logistics  plans we're taking our whole east side for all of our construction operations so some of the last work we do as we're finishing the middle school wing of the building is to finish all the the site and landscaping and fields and everything on that  construction related to the ovaries during the times of drop off and pick up just so we don't congest the area i mean they are separated but they're not that separated between the two doing site work operations they'll be dump trucks and things like that but then when you get further down the road into the finish phase and things like that it's material deliveries so i don't i don't expect that to be sort of a big push or a big amount of traffic beginning of the day or on the day just kind of a steady flow of trucks coming in go use the blackouts for well to work oh well yeah it works out great it's just we have a no idle no parking no all that and there won't be students teachers in the ministration working or driving in on that sort of where they're ripping off roads they're going to be entering here and from concord but then the  that could be just two years that might be permanent depends on how everything shakes out with the final design so it could be the start of a permanent solution presently the interim solution same as they are today will those walking conditions be changed at all so so we don't have an answer to that question but i know that we we need to continue to  this area to accommodate what will be a two year impact to this whole zone and we'll have to see what the task force thinks is the most appropriate for that regarding safe pass students we'll have to see if there's we have a sidewalk so there's a lot of detail here but right now we're considering a new sidewalk right here which doesn't exist if the site is part of the project that might be a very early phase of components that needs to go in to support this so there's a lot of other detail that gets layered on here to make sure that walkers and bikers are safe i do think that one of the things that scans could do well and i think you know this and dan did talk about it is they had neighborhood updates and maybe after you make a comment back to talk about what will be implemented too because we may come up with a solution day one and we may have to change it three months in because it's not working well so how that works  one thing that was going to say is that you said that they are they might be a student packing along conquered avenue and that could become a permanent thing but that of course flies in the face of all the discussion about having the drop off on continental yes i'm just wondering how all these things sort of fit in with each other off so that to me that you go in place right and this face because this is right there so some of that at this phase i don't think there are conflict i think they can work together right at the moment to answer the specific question of how much cushion there is right now because we're at such a schematic level in the design and there's there's a lot of moving parts and so part of what we do and we work with the design team and the rest of the rest of the group is to figure out ways in the design as it will develop over the next year plus to build that cushion by coming up with with different methods and materials or  ways to to do the construction still achieve the design vision but in a way that can be a little more efficient schedule wise because we want i mean we want it's called slow and we want flow in the schedule because  inevitably things happen when you're doing it structuring yeah i mean there's you never know what you're going to come across and so we try to and we use our experience we have a big team of people who are trying to put their heads together and figure out what things could happen and then try to mitigate them now are our number one priority as we move from this phase of the schedule into the more detailed scheduling over the course of this design development for the year is to really solidify the schedule figure out ways to get these dates you know looking at a high school construction completion of july twenty one i'd love to see that be june twenty one or may twenty water april twenty one it doesn't necessarily impact the operation of the school or when they're going to move but it does build it build you a little bit of a buffer and i would do the same thing with the middle school phase so our vision was actually already talking a lot about this is to really refine it and really figure out ways to pull that end date back so that there's a good comfort level that we can do a good job in getting the furniture and all the other stuff after we're done into the building so that teachers can get there their stuff in there they can get their room set up that it's not a mad scramble you know the two weeks before school starts and you know we have to commission the building we want to make sure it's operating properly the people who are going to run the building know how to run the building and how to flip all the switches and make it all sickening the slab expand further and that we're looking at what that cost is but the piles are critical path so if you can reduce the number of pow's you reduce that so that's what dan is you know looking at it he brings up those suggestions with his teams and then we look at her team look at those design solutions and that's the sort of give and take that goes forth and that's the advantage of bringing our construction manager on board early is to be able to have those conversations that are meaningful and that could give real results so when dan i think gives and we've talked a little bit of that that this is this is a schedule that really is ideally only going to shrink this is this is something that as we continue to die then we're looking at could get knocked down to build a middle school until it's cleaned up and there's a lot of stuff that has to come out of there and so we've been talking about ways to try to accelerate that but doing it in a manner that's not risky and doesn't it got too much risk for instance  we talked about maybe phasing it in the summer and that just brings too much risk it because we've got to clean the space back up and put it back to go to use it for teaching that x number and my goodness if we ran into some challenges  piles for that other phase which might move it from i forget what it was january maybe into early or late two thousand and twenty one that would help that schedule and the other part that they have touched on was that this transition when we turn a school over it's the idea that because done in july doesn't mean we're ready to occupy that we need a good month or two in the let's that's while that's that's a very important date it's it needs to be done in august with all that ready for students and then  be able to move them over and start temporist is pretty key for us on the nd phase we can't start the nd phase until that building is empty so that's not like that saying you know they're going to carry a cart over some of the smaller teachers don't have a can be sold or or provided to others and then once that's done all that has to be an experience was that's a lot of stuff and it will be carried by the construction team because we found out that in summer are folks are very busy getting all the other facilities schools ready for the stuff the fall starts so so we thought of that through and hopefully we can squeeze the schedule of that but if anything i think what dan said is true that we would to get out of the way right it's going to take about four months just to be and get that piece of the building out of the way so that we can start the the th and th grade when then it doesn't really matter how long it takes to that was resting my question  so some of the high school section is complete or all of the components of the school required to run a successful high school program available or are there are rooms or other things that we would rely upon in the next i'll take that he said so that the out rooms will not all be there and the ideas that will probably put a couple of art classes with temporary partitions in the cafeteria area that would be serving the middle school site ok so there's still the same area there just  further west the nurses sweep will not be there so we could build up already many slides of different components but we talked about the locker sequence where there's some modulars coming in just  with connectors so that they can have that st facility we don't necessarily need a middle school so we just need a high school nurses component so that's done and likewise the weight room won't be there  but i think it's a good communication program we had so if you think one we will provide updates to the operating website that people are accustomed to going to now for school updates which will be sort of progress where what's happened just to kind of keep people informed of where things are and also what's coming you know look ahead for the next three months and you know highlight things that could be potentially you know extra noisy here you know a little more traffic for this two week period because something special is coming in whatever it is so we communicate all that through web site for sure for sure for starters  a we had a we had an e mail address that was also on that website that came directly to us so that if folks had specific questions related to construction activities they could hit that e mail address would come to us and we could address it and if it had decent traffic and we we always responded it was you know it wasn't it wasn't our place to be responding about design it questions or bigger picture questions it was specific to construction type questions but we we would feel of the other thing we did is we opened up the doors too much basically the of others but the community and especially as the building was really starting to take shape and you could start to see things come together because your body stands outside and they wonder what's going on inside and they're curious and i think for us we wanted people to see what was going on and build an excitement about the progress that was happening especially when you get the walls closed in and people just wonder what the heck's going on because they don't see any changes for months and months and months it's all happening inside the walls we called a coffee with the contractor and we do it at six or seven o'clock at night we'd have coffee in the neighbors happening and i think our overall game plan and you'll talk probably the bigger picture communication but you know our overall game game plan is to be accessible to to folks to the community to the neighbors so that you know when when somebody feels you know if there's a question or a concern from a neighbor about traffic or some specific thing that's that's happening or question they have i just want them to feel like they can reach out to us and get a quick response  opposed to feeling like things need to be escalated to the highest levels because they're not you know we're not responsive and we can't get to us and i think that approach that mindset works really well for us i think once we had that report with the neighbors it was pretty positive you know we knew all the neighbors by by name and they felt comfortable to come see us and walk in the trailer and ask questions and i think it worked really well thank you so a couple other things with that i think the things that might change is maybe we do some tweets or things  a line item on the agenda as we go through neighborhood time one of the st toss up for safety i think and we continue do that so we do as a group that we were monitoring this when there were some issues and we did reach out if they were issues that  his team said you know you need please help us or please follow up with this so i think that the communication worked really well in the neighborhood and we would like to build upon that it's a bigger project you're right so how we're going to do this on a bigger scale when dad says walk in the  neighbors through he probably doesn't really know how many neighbors might come out to see that so that that could become a little more than coffee it might be i don't know a lot of boxes a job right so but i think that it's we should start talking about that soon after november be available for use by the ticks by you know the auditorium all that will still go on the off label programs that we have with the music and drama departments will still be those won't be stopped we've been talking with the a d and he recognizes there are challenges with the fields we had that out here and he's been working with his neighboring communities and looking aware of those games we played during that time and you know he's also talked about how they can support practice in other fields with that around town so you know balance out the only one that's gone through this or is going through this you could read the paper and see many other communities that are going through the same thing so it's sort of over six getting things right we will  get some help from neighboring communities and that will probably be helping them out when they're going through that so that's a long discussion but jim davis is all part of that as well fulfill all of our responsibilities as your own is managers we st joe's would have a feeling room on occasion to be awake and scans always stop construction during that period of time the workers were told to be inside or out in their trucks or somewhere so that they were not you know impacting the the sort of peaceful atmosphere that people might wish to have during a funeral and i can see the same thing happening with the high school on the day of you know holiday concert that happens in school or an awards ceremony or sort of exams or  those kinds of things so they are they are incredibly easy to work with in terms of from those kinds of activities and they were very sensitive then and i know sanctions appreciate it and that's one of for those that need to get access also fake amy for her input she's been very valuable to helping us navigate some of those comments and questions regarding accessibility and she's agreed to help us throughout the process and i want just like schematic design presentation this is what we feel is the best approach right now that the work is by far not done and have continued discussions and we hope to be tuning that up a bit and we may uncover things that are still a surprise but by and large in construction i've learned that once you get out of the ground you're really good shape because you control everything our biggest challenge is getting away from the building that we have to cut into and demolish and because that is has the unknowns so again once we get out of that and get out of the ground we're in control i think i should say down of of a good understanding of the schedule those are the the unknowns are getting into the existing construction so one of the thing that you didn't say very clearly i just want to say is that at no time were contracting workers be in the blue so when you see blue here or blue in phase three that's a zone that there are no contractors  is a very clean line the walls the construction has temporary walls these red things that you'll see when you look at the downloads and those are barriers those are not necessarily passed through so those are basically solid walls there will be workers potentially on one side and students on the other but those are full solid walls and that's not a communication component i just want to make sure that people knew that i know we talked about it but so the idea here is that complete separation with all construction there there would be the opportunity where a supervisor might have to go in and look at something in the future face and that would happen through scans because personnel with the  signing through the administrative office of the high school but again you know no use of the bathrooms no use if there's no contractors working parking there or walking over here and and we operate a clean  site smoke free drug free so on and so forth so there is nothing on this campus that was the that's going on today that the contract would be great and also even though there will be that separation between contractor school student faculty all of the contractors employees all workmen workers will be required to go through a kori clearance and corey check for and that would be the control and administration of the project that will be trailers for our o p m it will be the owner's trailer where we have meetings it will be where you're running your operations out of again just wanted people to be aware that students who are involved in this site and it really sparks a lot of students imagination and potentially career that they might not have thought about so we're there to help facilitate that and make it a really positive experience it's pretty exciting to watch that building go up right next to you i've seen it many sites and they're twenty feet from that building and four stories of steel and it's pretty pretty great thing to experience so we're going to try to make the best  then we have to maintain a fire and so that's the challenge we have to maintain this fire access with the fire and it's not going to be able to fit on the outside of the facet or do construction so it's got to be on the inside this is a gate that they have a key to it which means that everything else has to happen on out side so if you think about that drive today it's happening the fence will be the pond side and so walking out to be off that there's a possibility i'm hopeful that we can put a sidewalk  temporary we pulled we get rid of and that it has to be you know something that we could have the p w clean you know it's got to be maintainable can't just be we just so that's the plan we have not well talking like you i just want to start bill by saying that while we're presenting tonight the exterior everybody knows that we're doing a lot of other things simultaneous to this to get ready for the schematic design submission on june  consultants and coordinating so while we're doing this design work we're also doing all of that other work to get to what you'll see is a seven drawing specs and a book we're going to address most of those questions tonight some of them are ok well thanks brooke so what you're looking at here is the current site planning like brooke said well we're going to kind of do a walk around the building and talk about many of the comments that bill just identified which have been some of our feedback from previous presentations of this is kind of the latest site plan which will see kind of three dimensionally but a lot of work it's kind of going to the site the dark gray being the p t roof again very clean roof so we go to the next the st image we have is just an overall current birdseye that kind of thermal kind of circulation piece which connects to the street i think one of the community members mentioned how does how does that front or kind of address itself to the street kind of make a handshake with the street and how do we think about that  presence in terms of how the building kind of looks back to concord so if we go to the next one so just kind of a quick walk through that kind of idea of the handshake with the street the pathway where we're just showing some sort of paving concrete kind of coming out of the building so you see the high school entry into the center here one of the things we've done on the ends of the buildings which you'll see much like the lower school is we made those fairly solid because we don't need a lot of windows there this is where the stairwell is and this is the end of one of the classroom pieces but again with the east and west trying to remove a lot of the glass simplify the design and cut down on the heat gain in the wind so that's kind of the one of the st things of this is that x is coming into the front of the building discussion about the window being heavy that projection where we have the same wall on the inside so we've integrated that more with the horizontal we've done two things we've broken the horizontal strip window down because there were a lot of comments about that and we actually reduced the amount of glass and simplify that versus the actual you know the kind of larger windows that we had with the brick element before so then if we go to the next image it's moving in closer than the actual high back so we're still thinking of this protest material we have a larger more detailed cover on the column one of the things we talked about last time so kind of expressing that base from the middle and then from go ahead recast glass or windows from the ground plane with a precast element inside inside the window so this can be very simple and very plain or one of the interest it can be large pieces of versus lining up of the individual brick and image then we're moving around kind of further up the this is actually the entry where buses and cars come into the drop off so again we made the ends much more solid this is one of the classrooms the end of the corridor  is here with that with the stair that's actually the stair in the corridor but again making these ends a little more solid a little more simple and making the glass and it's really about that central entry piece so you're really kind of drawn into that through the arcade and through the kind of open it's kind of open arms feeling really embracing and identifying that intrigue center so if we can go to the next image then we're moving over to the opposite corner to this is starting to come in along on one of the things we've done the building one of the significant things we have is there were a lot of comments from the planning board about seeing a hard scaping concrete and maybe this is a little too green but so we have stepping from the dining where we have the the floor elevated but we've taken these large green areas between the fire road and the building and kind of green those up and we thought it would actually be even be a good idea to add some trees there so whether this is lawn or some sort of ground cover  the idea would be the integrate some tree so when you're walking and moving down this path you kind of have to ring on both sides of you know captured by the canopy so so this is the dining straight ahead with the terrace so if we keep going so then coming back  so again you can see the inner generational path down here which is kind of surrounded by green on both sides one of the comments we heard and then some scaled light fixtures in the past to kind of at some scale as you move along this road we go to the next  one just an overall elevation kind of from the unit generational path looking forward here you can kind of actually see the window detail a little more and one of the things we were exploring was not only the darker red color but is there a precast element that works in the brick with the window to kind of give an interesting shadow line and break that up one of the things by creating the seat wall depth that look like it was really popping up before because it was kind of by itself so we really looked at integrating that with the horizontal l sunscreen dolman for the window which also has a light shelf to daylight deep into the space so going to have the darker precast here and we've talked about this is either a different type of brick detail with the kind of a very simple brick detail it's a kind of explore along the pond dead a very similar attitude where we're dealing with this great by really working with very gently sloped rail which is handicap accessible and then integrating green to kind of break the building it up from the pond so it becomes a little more captured by greens a little more landscape oriented and in the classrooms in the roll up doors are here so there is a terrace outside of the art rooms here but it's a step back from the pathway and the like if we go to the next one so then this was the looking from the field looking at the middle school the lower school side and one of the things i mentioned and i  people like the simplicity of this last time is we tend to be these ends a little more solid because we're getting all the windows on the other side and whether we had some very tail or something interesting here just to soften that the the idea again is that the end of the stairwell into corridors that we do have more pleasing and there still is a vertical element to help control that it's light but then again there's another canopy here very similar to what you see on the upper school side but the whole the whole piece is brought and then view from the front corner of the drop off so you kind of come in this way and around a canopy with some sort of identification for the school and if we remember the floor plan so this is the stairwell is i think one point that was pretty glassy so we've looked at a little more monolithic a little more solid a little less glass you get the glass on the end of the stair looking east but not on the north and in this is where  the library is for the middle school sitting immediately above the entry when you come in and then kind of having that scale is still the base in the top kind of wrap around the right so i think and then there's a couple patrick i think there's a couple images then going back out so one of the one of the things was to kind of look at the building from concord from multiple points of view so this is at the orchard crossing and these white things really don't stick out of the ground that far th so the orchard crossing into the building where you can make a choice to go towards the high school towards that arcade or off along the pond edge in the building but again a fairly narrow building kind of looking back at the street and if we go to the next just  and so and then we're just going to go down to each street if we go down to oak then which is more the one where it's kind of hell and you're getting close to where that landscape informal circulation element opens towards the street but again trying to break the massing up give it a little bit of texture and a little bit of the detail with the glass intrigue kind of clearly being the high school here yawn and then we go down to the next treat so now we're down a little closer to go and you can see the buildings actually quite a bit quite a bit from the street so that's kind of a quick walk around we had two additional things which is just take thirty seconds each one is a quick animation of just a walk of entering the site and walking along the path on the inside of the building between the building in the ponce you can kind of see that see what it feels like in terms of the actual actual the actual kind of a itself so this is coming down concord at the school on the left you're starting to see the upper school greenhouse esplanade down the middle here's the stadium and again it's a little it's a little dark but but you can kind of start to see that so this is the entry then we're still moving along then we're kind of coming to the more formal handshake with the street kind of component maybe where the signage is where the building opens and then as you keep going you're starting to move towards orchard there's and a little taller than it is today but still seems to work because that setback so that's kind of an overall presentation and like to open it up for questions and make sure we've answered everything that everybody's been a mean we will have a roman brick or another size break with reality because it looks like it almost looks like a waffle pattern to me when you look at the way the brick is laid out here looks like it doesn't even look like a traditional brick to me unless i'm just looking at it the wrong way i see take we look at the window without it like a lot of times you see a frame or some interesting detail around a window just to make it not look so heavy and monolithic we thought just by breaking that and you know we have a detail that really i mean they'll be part of the design development is how sorry you can't deliver on the window how far is that actually it's two feet and it's within the wall thickness so you take the wall thickness which is probably eight inches plus a foot and a half you get like a nice kind of seat depth but it's just it's just a way to break that up because we have very long for silence and so it kind of creates a little bit of pattern of shadow and light and function for the classroom yeah because i mean this this was so we did two things this this winter used to run all the way across so we made it more solid here and we then we also reduced the height of this the oh so we made this more solid that a little more solid  brought this down in size with what was basically ten by ten to more like eight by eight and then we talked about having some heavier breaks in the window which are then this thing needs to happen is there will be a pattern where maybe these two windows are operable window sill end up with a larger sash around it in terms of how it opens and so that's something that it's kind of v i just i think it looks great i was really want to thank you for all your hard work i think i really like i like the windows the way they do that they look i think that there's been some really good improvements and i think that what i kind of like out there instead a little bit to me it looks like it breaks up that sort of and it could be joints in the material it can feel you know but just thinking about that it's the fourteen foot piece of course is a six foot piece and that it would be this giant twenty foot congress but i'll say that we are continuing our discussion with d p w and how they maintain the site and so they also have a say in what material we use that's going to stand up to what effectually is a very big piece of equipment that that will clear that's why it's  so they made it very clear that the staff snowblower doesn't do twenty foot baths they do not walk around the school so we've got to continue that discussion and make sure it's adorable and it works keep can keep down the path of understanding that you know the big three you know are not coming down there in the room to all sudden start watering all this stuff and adding some of the materials that were using a lot of concrete material that i'm seeing here at this point and i might very close to fifty two year old kid and when i say that is the path of least resistance coming off of that sidewalk from the cross walk that's to be considered because just because you put it that way the kids are going to go that way so you have to you know and i know we're looking at materials because for instance at the wellington i know there are periods when neighbors have a view of dead shrubs for quite a period of time and i feel like the more maintenance required to i don't know who's responsible for that and they weeds and so forth so i'm not a light which is going to be very well relieved to the players rooms and to give the exterior of the building a house cultural quality was some some depth to it i think it's i think it's going to be ground point and do reach out if you're flying over this in a plane but coming along concord to have what we have here is still just something on the ground plane which won't be recognized as we drive down con her somebody waiting for a bus or their parents or somebody come along and it would give you the three dimensional piece to put the sign of the school on and so forth and make sure it does belong to the school so i would repeat the school materials out there and just say i know this is picky at this stage of the design thing but things like that do cost a little money and if you're working on your budget right now save some money to put something out there but i think it would enjoy it and you would have a place to sit and wait if they are waiting for somebody in their three dimensional think would be visible them conquered so thank you the only excuse you need to do the pedestrian and not the car so this is a very free zone for a very safe zone for for the pedestrians to travel to the building and not but it could drop including drop offs so is what happens between here and around here it is up to some of the people in this room services but we have to make sure that with so much debt with we have to take think they're ok with clearing it maintaining it right so yes absolutely i maybe maybe we're still concrete paving but common lot of conflicts that occur with doors and so forth so that's that's a very a very good point so this is not what we but that's these are going to follow that evolved supporting that with the would be the way he's moving the program around town a lot of moving pieces certainly if that west side of paris deal with a strain gets resolved there's a possibility that a couple of course come  it'll start at six o'clock the place will be determined at some point soon we'll have folks from the state come in and inform us on what rules we should follow on the campaign or the understand what those targets are so we can do things properly and without mistakes so alas that you folks consider that we are getting close to a schematic design i think brooke alluded to that and we have one more meeting and that meeting is as a crew it's next thursday at this location at this time seven o'clock and what we're doing is three things i guess one is we'll be getting a  review of the building one more time i think we spent a lot of time outside a very interesting side looking at the north side of the building which i believe me dinah been asking about that too it was that inside view of what's what to see and so i think the  we've asked them to do another tour of the building maybe through version virtual reality process of the computer will open up a meeting with that this is good work that the community has done that the committee has done that are designed professionals have  and i really look forward to that because that will sort of conclude our schematic design process the next big piece of that which will take the most part of our g d p is the budget the cost of the project where the money is going it's a fairly detailed cost compared to what we had and what we've plenty of time for that discussion questions and answers and then the rd part will be to get approval on submitting the package to the state which will be doing in early july that will be a schematic design package show you through this process with