Mid-June is target date for completion of Campbell High’s new indoor practice facility

TOP PHOTO: BOE members heard an update from David McDonald, a representative with the architectural firm the school system has contracted with on CCHS’s indoor practice facility project.

By Charlotte Underwood 

JACKSBORO, TN (WLAF)- Campbell County Board of Education members received an update and overview of the indoor practice facility project that will break ground before the year’s out at Campbell County High School.

The facility will be approximately 9,000 square feet with a total cost of $1,375,000.

David McDonald, a representative with Architects Weeks, Ambrose, McDonald Inc. addressed the board regarding the project.

According to McDonald, the design phase of the project is complete, and his firm is moving into the construction document phase, with the hope of “releasing it for bids in October and receive bids in early November.”

“If we could push that up a little bit we can and start construction before the end of the year with the target date of getting this facility completed by mid-June of next year,” McDonald said.

He went over the site and floor plan of the indoor practice facility.

“We have a survey in progress and once we have the survey it will give us all the information we need as far as the topography and utilities and so forth and we will be able to get that exact location,” McDonald said.

He told the board that his firm also had a subservice investigation they would perform to make sure the ground underneath was stable to build the building.

The facility will essentially be a pre-engineered metal building with a practice court inside with wooden floor. It will be the same size as the practice court in the gym as far as the court layout goes. It will have four goals, two at each end and “a couple of side goals for practice.”

There will be some “support services” which will be weight rooms, bathrooms and some storage space.

He also spoke about the additional project for the renovation of CCHS’s existing weightroom at the stadium at a cost of around $115,000.

The main part of this project is to do structural stabilization of the concrete slab the weight room sits on. The project including stabilizing one side of the concrete slab, however, McDonald reported to the board that he was recommending both sides be stabilized and that it would increase the cost of the project “a little bit.”

“I just came from that space before the meeting, and it appears that the other half of the room that we were not planning on replacing the slab, is going to need replaced, or at least I am going to recommend it also be replaced. It looked suspect once all the mats were pulled up and I was able to see the entire slab, I am meeting with my structural engineer tomorrow, so we will make that final decision very soon,” McDonald said.

Other renovations to this building will include the addition of several overhead full-view sectional doors with glass in them. 

“They wanted to do that to open up that space and get in some natural light and then when the weather is good, they can open those doors up and use the natural ventilation rather than the air-conditioning,” McDonald said.

The old weight room also needs some structural stabilization of the foundation wall behind it. (WLAF NEWS PUBLISHED – 09/11/2024-6AM)

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