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Consultants present district building-condition survey; roof, parking and classrooms prioritized
Summary
Young and Wright presented a five-year building condition survey for Eden Central School District, highlighting unsatisfactory high-school roofs and parking lots, masonry issues at the elementary school, and classroom replacements; consultants provided searchable floor‑plan-linked cost estimates to help prioritize a $19 million capital program and near-term emergency repairs.
Young and Wright staff told the Eden Central School District board the firm completed the state-required five-year building-condition survey and expanded it into a searchable, floor-plan-linked dataset so the district can prioritize capital needs. "We bring a team of 12–15 people into the field" to review site, roofing, masonry, mechanical, HVAC and electrical systems, said Mike McCarthy, project manager for Young and Wright.
The consultant group flagged the high-school roof and a rear loading-dock parking area as "unsatisfactory" with roughly three years of remaining useful life and said both items were already being considered in the district's capital schedule. "The whole entire roof system here will be replaced as part of the capital improvement project as well," McCarthy said. The consultants also identified masonry deterioration at the elementary school (a 1939 building) and multiple classrooms that the report rates past their useful life.
Young and Wright provided multi-year cost estimates intended for planning: the firm said near-term work at the bus garage could be roughly $500,000, cited a three‑year projection that was "almost $7,000,000," and noted the district is currently executing a roughly $19,000,000 project that will cover a portion of the identified needs. McCarthy described how the team elevates suspected structural issues for engineering review and places conservative placeholder amounts — for example, a $1,000,000 line item was added to bring a slab/structural concern to the board's attention.
Board members asked about room-level granularity, air conditioning, and locker-room detail. "We do a specific slide" for space-level conditions and can present both system-level and room-level costs, McCarthy said. Consultants said that adding district-requested items such as additional air-conditioning would be listed separately in the long-term plan. On electric buses, Young and Wright said designers use heavy-duty pavement sections where vehicle loads require it.
