District design team presents three campus layouts, sizes and schedule options for San Antonio site

Design-team members and district staff presented three conceptual layouts for the San Antonio campus and discussed capacity, construction approach, joint‑use arrangements with the City of Mountain View, cost drivers and a target construction schedule.

The plans compared a predominantly prefabricated model using the FOLIA system and larger custom buildings. The design-build team said the three concepts vary mainly by classroom count, special‑use rooms and how many custom (site‑built) buildings would be required; capacities ranged from about 514 to 642 students across the options. No formal decision on which concept to build was made at the study session.

Amber Emery of Block Construction described the FOLIA product to the board: "It's a pre engineered classroom building with a 2 story and a 1 story," and said the system includes DSA (Division of the State Architect) preapproval intended to accelerate permitting. The team said a prefabricated folio can reduce on-site construction time and waste, while custom buildings take longer to design and cost more per square foot. The architects identified three phasing packages for construction: (1) demolition and site utilities, (2) the prefabricated folio classroom packages, and (3) the custom buildings (library/admin/MPR/gym), with the…