Medical rotation: education conversions.It took Karl Springer, superintendent of Mustang (Okla.) Public School District, and his director of operations, Jim Burkey, less than five minutes to pitch a deal that should become legend in school administration lore. The district bought a building valued at $2.9 million for $10. A vacant nursing home facility had fallen under the Department of Housing and Urban Development's bailiwick BAILIWICK. The district over which a sheriff has jurisdiction; it signifies also the same as county, the sheriff's bailiwick extending over the county. 2. . When the city council passed on the property, Springer sprung into action. "Mr. Burkey and I walked in and immediately said it looked like an elementary school," he recalls. He wasn't just seeing things, confirms architect Charles Warner of DeJong & Associates in Dublin, Ohio. "In the last decade, medical clinics and schools have started to [be designed] more in clusters or pods," he says. Still, he shies shies 1 v. Third person singular present tense of shy1. n. Plural of shy1. from calling this a trend. "Folks notice the similar layouts, the adjacencies, and think, 'hmm.' Then they get into the facts," he says. For instance, older medical buildings lack up-to-date HVAC (Heating Ventilation Air Conditioning) In the home or small office with a handful of computers, HVAC is more for human comfort than the machines. In large datacenters, a humidity-free room with a steady, cool temperature is essential for the trouble-free systems. And 14-by 18-foot patient rooms don't readily morph into classrooms. Officials in Mustang agree. But they made it work, knocking down walls and employing X-ray machines to help crews add water and drain lines without slicing many cables and exploding the foundation. Thanks to an "extremely creative" architect, Burkey says, remodeling remodeling /re·mod·el·ing/ (re-mod´el-ing) reorganization or renovation of an old structure. bone remodeling costs were an unbelievably low $42 per square foot. In the end, the district designated the 27,000 square foot facility for pre-kindergarten and an alternative high school program. "It would not have worked for a traditional school," Springer confesses. "But for the price, it was worth it." The Los Angeles Unified School District The Los Angeles Unified School District (the "LAUSD") is the largest (in terms of number of students) public school system in California and the second-largest in the United States. Only the New York City Department of Education has a larger student population. , in fact, chose to raze raze also rase tr.v. razed also rased, raz·ing also ras·ing, raz·es also ras·es 1. To level to the ground; demolish. See Synonyms at ruin. 2. To scrape or shave off. 3. a hospital sitting on property bought in a bankruptcy auction. Yet the district has built several high schools adjacent to hospital facilities, where space such as the grounds and library are shared. For Orthopaedic Hospital Medical Magnet High School, the district bought five acres of ground instead of the usual 10. At costs approaching $4 million an acre in LAUSD LAUSD Los Angeles Unified School District (Los Angeles, CA) territory, that's also a deal few administrators would ignore. |
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