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Owatonna High School Construction Updates

Three-story, 317,000 SF high school, which will accommodate 1,600 students, contains new classrooms, state-of-the-art industrial arts labs and shop spaces, and an 825-seat auditorium, gymnasium, and a large commons/cafeteria space in the center of the building. The new high school will be located on a 90-acre site with parking lots for 890 vehicles. The project also includes a five-station field house with walking track, a 3,451-seat football stadium, eight tennis courts, four soccer/lacrosse fields, two softball fields, two baseball fields, and a synthetic turf field and full track at the stadium.

Construction is expected to be completed in the summer of 2023.

MONTHLY UPDATES

SITE CONSTRUCTION

Work Started

  • Plaza area planters and entrance
  • Site furnishings

Work in Progress

  • Site concrete paving (sidewalks and curbs)
  • Site fencing
  • Pour concrete plaza
  • Parking lot signage
  • Irrigation
  • Site plantings
  • Heated entry sidewalk

Work Completed

  • Softball field synthetic turf
  • Football stadium synthetic turf installation
  • Pave the track

Work Upcoming Next Month

  • Track & long jump surfacing
  • Final lift on parking lots
  • Tennis court acrylic coatings
  • Sod installation
Exterior paneling
Outdoor track
Overview of football field
View of planter area

3-STORY CLASSROOM

Work Started

  • Elevator install
  • 1st floor cabinet install

Work in Progress

  • Paint Industrial Technology spaces
  • Install light fixtures in Industrial Technology spaces
  • 1st floor doors and hardware
  • Finish mechanical rooms serving classrooms
  • 1st floor flooring
  • Final clean and punchlist 3rd floor
  • Final clean and punchlist 2nd floor
  • 1st floor mechanical and electrical finishes
  • 1st floor tile install
  • Exterior window finishes
  • Mechanical penthouse finishes
  • Industrial Technologies MEP rough-ins

Work Completed

  • Balcony flooring finishes
  • Finish 1st floor ceilings
  • 1st floor grid install
  • Flooring finishes 2nd floor
  • Exterior metal panel installation

Work Upcoming Next Month

  • Classroom teaching screen installation
  • Final Clean
  • Punchlist
1st floor cabinet install
Classroom in punchlist phase on 3rd floor
Elevator install
Painting at shops
Second floor data room
Tile install on 1st floor
Unit heater at shops

ATHLETIC / ACTIVITIES SPACES

Work Started

  • Painting activities hallway
  • Ceiling grid in activities hallway

Work in Progress

  • Finish tile in locker rooms
  • Plumbing finishes in locker rooms
  • Tile at locker rooms
  • MEP finishes in locker rooms
  • Terrazzo grinding in hallways
  • Wood flooring at main gym

Work Completed

  • Finish gym wood floor
  • Auxiliary gym floor install
  • Electrical in auxiliary gym
  • Ceiling grid in fitness center
  • MEP finishes in fitness center

Work Upcoming Next Month

  • Fitness center floor install
  • Interior glass install
  • MEP Finishes @ Activities hallway
  • Pad out activities hallway
Auxilary gym overview
Floor tile in locker room
Locker room bathroom
Locker room showers
Tile in athletics bathroom

COMMONS / CAFETERIA

Work Started

  • Finish commons ceilings
  • Wood paneling install
  • Interior glass install

Work in Progress

  • Main entrance door installation
  • Pad out
  • Kitchen equipment install
  • Kitchen tile
  • Kitchen ceilings
  • Ceiling clouds in commons
  • Main mechanical room rough-ins
  • Commons terrazzo

Work Completed

  • Sheetrock kitchen soffits
  • Learning stair terrazzo install
  • Drywall finishing at kitchen soffits
  • Painting commons
  • MEP rough-ins in ceilings
  • Commons interior brick install

Work Upcoming Next Month

  • Elevator inspection
Clouds at commons
Finished learning stair
Kitchen equipment
Kitchen hood & stove
Terrazzo pour at commons
Tile at kitchen servery

AUDITORIUM/MUSIC SPACES

Work Started

  • Auditorium stone install
  • Music area MEP finishes

Work in Progress

  • Stage MEP rough-ins
  • Music area acoustical panel install
  • Painting

Work Completed

  • Frame auditorium side walls
  • Music area ceiling grid
  • Auditorium side wall wood panel installation
  • MEP rough-ins throughout music spaces
  • Paint music spaces
  • Install sound isolation rooms in music spaces
  • Control booth framed
  • Chair lift installed
  • Exterior glass install

Work Upcoming Next Month

  • Paint stage
  • Pad out
  • Fixtures and devices
  • Stage wood floor
  • Install chairs
Elevator lift in auditorium
Greenroom
Musical sound rooms

DRONE FOOTAGE & IMAGES

TIMELAPSE VIDEO

RENDERINGS

PROJECT PHOTOS

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February 2022
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December 2021
November 2021
October 2021
July 2021
July 27, 2021
July 7, 2021
June 2021

Kraus-Anderson

Jason Rentmeester, Senior Project Manager | jason.rentmeester@krausanderson.com

Michael Stenbeck, Project Manager | michael.stenbeck@krausanderson.com

Dan May, Project Manager | dan.may@krausanderson.com

Rob Gemelke, Project Manager | rob.gemelke@krausanderson.com

Randy Haram, Project Superintendent | randy.haram@krausanderson.com

Wold Architects and Engineers

Ben Beery, Associate | bbeery@woldae.com

Paul Aplikowski, Partner | paplikowski@woldae.com