District manager previews new high school construction, geothermal wells and traffic changes

Brian Spoke, the district’s project manager for the new high school, outlined construction staging, traffic routing and mechanical systems for the Bowling Green City Schools’ new high school during the May 20 board meeting.

Spoke said crews will install a geothermal well field on the site as an early work item and will reconfigure parking and drop-off routes so school traffic can continue while construction proceeds. He described contractor parking, a fenced construction area and temporary “Trailer City” for crews at the southern end of the site.

The geothermal system: what was said and what it means Spoke described the well field as a core early project element. He said the wells being drilled are about 300 feet deep and that the finished ground‑source system will provide roughly 400 tons of cooling for the building. In his presentation Spoke said “there’s a 40 wells out there.” Later in the meeting Superintendent Ted Hazleman referred to the well field as 140 wells; the…