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MSBA feasibility work underway for Brockton High; architects outline next-year schedule
Summary
Left Field OPM and Castle Boos Architects told the Brockton School Committee Oct. 7 that Brockton High is in MSBA’s feasibility/schematic design phase, with a building scan, upcoming borings, a code‑baseline cost estimate and community visioning guiding options (renovation, addition or new build) to be refined this winter.
Left Field, the district’s owner’s project manager, and Castle Boos Architects gave an update to the Brockton Public Schools Facilities Subcommittee on Oct. 7 about the Brockton High School MSBA process and early design work.
Kevin Sullivan, Left Field project manager, said the project is in MSBA’s feasibility study/schematic design stage (Module 3A / PDP). He said the team will spend about a year in this phase, completing preliminary design programming to document existing conditions and explore options — including renovation, addition or a new building — before refining a preferred schematic option this winter.
“We’re going to work through PDP and by December we expect to have a couple of options,” Sullivan said, describing the schedule that leads to a preferred schematic and MSBA submissions early next year.
Joe Malani, project manager for Castle Boos Architects, described technical work now under way: the district has ordered a point‑cloud building scan to create a digital model (to avoid hand‑measuring rooms), code‑compliance and baseline cost estimates that will go to the estimator later in October, and geotechnical borings planned for early November. Malani said the baseline estimate will show what it would cost simply to bring the existing building up to current code standards; that figure will help the committee compare renovation costs against other options.
Malani and Sullivan said the team has run visioning sessions that included about 40 participants — staff, students and community members — plus smaller working groups. The architects have also visited comparison schools, including Attleboro High School and Waltham High School, to explore integrated CTE and academic-space solutions.
Members asked about security assessments; Malani said the team has engaged specialized consultants, including a security consultant and the Ed Davis Group because of its institutional knowledge of the building. Sullivan said the team will continue classroom “shadow” visits and hold further visioning sessions with special education and CTE specialists.
The team said it will hold ward‑level listening sessions and post materials to a live, multilingual project website and QR code to reach additional residents. Sullivan listed planned School Building Committee meetings on Oct. 23 and Nov. 20 and said the team will present additional cost and schematic information to the full committee in November and winter.
The update closed with committee members urging close community engagement, traffic and environmental testing where relevant, and regular reporting of emerging cost estimates.
The project remains at an early, exploratory stage: no final decision has been made about whether to build new, renovate, or add on.
The committee did not take any formal vote on a project decision at this meeting; the OPM and architects will return with updated cost figures and refined options.
