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Designers balance open campus, site safety and construction logistics for Medford High rebuild
Summary
Security consultants and landscape designers emphasized crime‑prevention‑through‑environmental‑design, electronic access control, pedestrian/bus circulation, parking constraints, and phased construction logistics; the team will develop phased maps and coordinate with a construction manager to keep the school operational during construction.
Medford — Site safety, circulation and construction logistics dominated the latter half of a hybrid advisory meeting on the reimagined Medford High School, as designers sought to reconcile an open, community‑friendly campus with operational security needs and steep site constraints.
Madeline GoodHarbor, the meeting’s security consultant, said the project will use crime‑prevention‑through‑environmental‑design (CPTED) principles—natural surveillance, access control, territorial reinforcement, maintenance and activity support—to guide site decisions. She described options such as scaled lighting, landscaping that defines but…
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