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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

  • Synthetic turf field stone base
  • Parking lot light pole bases
  • Stadium fencing

Work in Progress

  • Varsity dugout masonry
  • Athletic field irrigation
  • Site concrete throughout athletic fields
  • Site fencing
  • Underground electrical rough-ins at stadium
  • Site utilities (drain tile)

Work Completed

  • Installed aglime at ball fields
  • Baseball field concrete
  • Drain tile for multi-purpose field

Work Upcoming Next Month

  • Asphalt paving for paths through athletic fields
  • Fencing around tennis courts
  • Start paving parking lots
Baseball dugout progress
Concrete sidewalks around baseball field
Long jump construction
Prepping softball batting cages and paths
Stone aggregates at multi-purpose field

3-STORY CLASSROOM

Work Started

  • 3rd floor drywall
  • Exterior window installation (pictured)

Work in Progress

  • Exterior face brick
  • Roof drain piping
  • 3rd floor mechanical and electrical rough-ins
  • 2nd floor framing
  • 2nd floor mechanical and electrical rough

Work Completed

  • First floor underground electrical and plumbing rough-ins
  • 3rd floor in wall backing
  • Concrete slab on grade install

Work Upcoming Next Month

  • Start painting 3rd floor
  • Start tile on 3rd floor
  • Start ceilings on third floor
  • Drywall on 2nd floor
  • Start exterior metal panel installation
  • 1st floor fireproofing
Second floor framing
Third floor bathroom progress
Third floor drywall
Complete main office slab
Drywall progress third floor
Exterior brick at classrooms
Finishing drywall in mechanical room
Framing on second floor
MEP rough-ins second floor
New poured first floor slab
Prepping for greenhouse slab
Third floor progress

ATHLETIC / ACTIVITIES SPACES

Work Started

  • Exterior framing for fitness center (pictured)
  • Plumbing rough-ins in locker rooms
  • Interior masonry walls in locker rooms
  • Auxiliary gym MEP Rough-ins
  • Painting auxiliary gym

Work in Progress

  • Main gym walking track steel
  • Underground electrical rough-ins throughout gymnasium

Work Completed

  • Structural steel for fitness center
  • Set chillers for building
  • Auxiliary gym walking track
  • Auxiliary gym slab on grade

Work Upcoming Next Month

  • Wrestling room roofing
  • Pour main gym walking track slab
  • Prep main gym for concrete slab
Locker room plumbing rough-ins
Painting aux gym
Walking track

COMMONS / CAFETERIA

Work Started

  • Commons interior framing
  • Kitchen and mechanical room interior masonry

Work in Progress

  • Intumescent fireproofing on exposed steel

Work Completed

  • Underground electrical rough-ins
  • Poured kitchen slabs
  • Poured main mechanical room slab
  • Completed commons roofing

Work Upcoming Next Month

  • Set main mechanical room equipment
  • Continue interior framing
  • Set walk-in cooler/freezer
Kitchen slabs poured
Loading dock progress
View from classroom into commons
View looking into commons

AUDITORIUM/MUSIC SPACES

Work Started

  • Roofing of music rooms

Work in Progress

  • Underground electrical rough-ins

Work Completed

  • Underground plumbing in music rooms
  • Structural steel for music classrooms
  • Exterior framing
  • CMU masonry in the auditorium
  • Roofing of auditorium

Work Upcoming Next Month

  • Install smoke hatches for auditorium
  • Start pouring auditorium stepped seating
  • Start pouring music room slabs
Scene shop construction
View of band room

DRONE FOOTAGE & IMAGES

TIMELAPSE VIDEO

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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