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Simonsdale Elementary

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Location: Portsmouth, VA
Square Feet: 80,000
Architect: Tymoff + Moss Architects
Contractor: McKenzie Construction
Market: K-12 Education
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Special Features: LEED
Simonsdale Elementary School holds the honor of being certified by USGBC as LEED Gold.

Served as Structural Engineer of Record and Special Inspector for a new one- and two-story LEED Gold certified elementary school building for Portsmouth Public Schools. Approximately 80,000 SF for nearly 700 persons. Work also included a single-story 1,267 square foot administration building and a 1,036 square foot concession building.  The school is supported on reinforced concrete spread footings. Steel columns, beams, and open-web bar joists support floors and roofs. Concrete slab on grade and elevated concrete slab on metal deck. Metal deck, insulation, single-ply membrane roof, and vegetative "green" roof over Classroom wings and standing seam metal roof make up roofing. HVAC is provided by geothermal-based heat pump systems.

Images courtesy of Tymoff + Moss Architects.