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Methacton board hears updated high school design options; modular classroom cost reduced
Summary
Design team updated the Methacton School District Board on revised cost estimates and site options for the proposed high school renovation, including a reduction in modular-classroom costs and a timeline that could put schematic design later this year if the board votes in October.
At the Aug. 26 Methacton School District Board of Directors meeting, district leaders and the project design team presented updated cost estimates and site configurations for the proposed Methacton High School renovation and addition.
The design team said it reduced the assumed modular classroom scope from 20 units to 10, bringing the modular-structure cost from $7 million to $3.5 million; an additional $2 million remains budgeted for temporary roadways, staging and utility phasing, leaving a combined phasing allowance of about $5.5 million instead of the previously discussed $9 million. The presentation also reclassified some technology and furniture costs as baseline soft costs rather than optional items.
Those revisions matter because they alter the hard-cost comparisons among the board’s four conceptual options and the site-development work that must accompany any new construction. With more new construction in the…
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