Board clears design–build selection for Temecula Valley High School modernization
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Trustees approved a design–build approach for modernization at Temecula Valley High School, directing the district to procure architecture/design specifications that will accompany a combined design–build bid package.
The Temecula Valley Unified School District board unanimously approved consent item 25 on Thursday authorizing the district to use a design–build approach to prepare and later procure modernization work at Temecula Valley High School.
District staff described the process as architecture/design services to produce specifications and a scope of work based on the facility committee’s priorities. Under the approach the district will engage a firm to prepare design specifications that cannot later bid on the construction itself; the design and construction portions are then procured as a single, integrated package with the architect and construction team working together.
District staff said the immediate scope under consideration includes replacing older portable classrooms, improving the campus emergency-management systems and, if funding allows, adding HVAC to the mini gym. The district noted that the design–build process typically requires more time in the initial design phase but can shorten construction time and reduce some change orders because more details are resolved before a contractor is selected.
Mrs. Lash, the district’s chief facilities officer, told trustees this is the first time TVUSD has used the design–build approach for a facility project and that the board previously approved the modernization scope the campus committee recommended.
The board approved the consent-item motion unanimously.
