General
Building Name: Spring Creek Elementary
Location: Houserville, Pennsylvania
Occupant: State College Area SD
Occupancy Type: Educational
Size: 76,000 square feet
Height: 35'-6"
Stories Above Grade: 2
Construction Duration: Nov '17 - Jul '19
Project Cost: $17.2 million
Delivery Method: CM Agent/Multi-Prime
Zoning: R1 Residence
Codes: IBC 2009, IBC 2015, IEBC 2009, PA UCC, ICC/ANSI 2009, ADA 2010
Architecture
The Spring Creek Elementary School will offer three classrooms per grade, making it large enough to house students from both the soon-to-be-closed Houserville and Lemont Elementary schools. With plenty of curtain walls and clerestory windows, the new structure provides students and teachers with countless bright and airy educational spaces. Some such spaces include an open-concept library, a large basketball court, and a cafeteria that doubles as an auditorium.
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enclosure
The facade of the Spring Creek Elementary School is made up of a mix of brick veneer, manufactured stone veneer, and fiber cement board. A low-emissive, anodized aluminum curtain wall system also takes up a significant portion of the exterior facade, which allows for ample daylighting with minimal solar heat gain. The roofing system is a ballasted EPDM system, which is comprised of an ethylene propylene diene monomer (EPDM) membrane covered in a layer of ballast stones.
sustainability
The project team is aiming for a LEED Gold certification. In order to achieve this, many efforts have been made to implement sustainability features throughout the building. These include the ballasted EPDM roofing, low-emissive curtain walls, daylighting, LED light fixtures, photovoltaic panels, window overhangs, and a closed-loop water source heat pump system that runs on electricity rather than natural gas.