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requires only 10,350 square feet of additional new construction for a total gross building area of 72,330 square feet. The need to modify the shop building for human habitation and classroom use, however, raises total estimated costs for this option to about $2,957 million.
“Renovation is always more expensive than new construction,” observed Gangel. This option also “would be very disruptive” because much of the renovation would have to take place during the school year. According to the superintendent, students cannot be in the school when workers are there and classes being renovated would be unusable for the duration of the project.
Hayes Large considered both a new middle school and a new high school in its study. The costs to build a 400 student middle school for grades 6-8 were based on statewide averages for middle, junior high, and intermediate schools. At 141.5 square feet per student, costing an estimated $103.51 per square foot, and adjusted for three percent inflation, the building project alone would cost more than $6 million, or twice that of the high school addition-type projects. With other engineering costs, fuel and utilities, building mainte
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