Kansas City, MO

SKW was selected to provide survey, civil site engineering, landscape architecture and construction-phase services to build a new LEED™ certified, 300,000 s.f. high school on a 233-acre site with parking to accommodate 2,000 students.  Estimated construction costs for the high school range near $80 million and construction on the project will be completed by fall 2008.   

Located in the northeast portion of the North Kansas City School District, the site will also be home to a new $12 million district activity complex featuring a football stadium and track, two competition soccer fields, two competition baseball fields, two competition softball fields, 12 tennis courts and related track and field events.  Civil site development on the project includes preserved stream ways and wetlands, detention and retention facilities, infiltration trenches, vegetated swales, bio retention basins and stream way grade control structures, as well as the reuse of stormwater runoff for a drip irrigation system.  Based on environmental design considerations, an application is being made for a LEED™ Silver Certification for the high school.

SKW is also involved in the development of the street and traffic signal improvements for construction of Shoal Creek Parkway extending east from N. Woodland Avenue approximately 1.5 miles to the intersection of Staley Farm Road and N.E. 100th Street. SKW is designing the public water mains to be built in conjunction with the new roadway construction to provide service to the new high school site.  SKW also provided water quality permit services to the Missouri Department of Natural Resources and the US Army Corps of Engineers.