H. J. High served as construction manager for the new 24,000 sf Daytona State College Classroom Building #3, located at the college’s Flagler/Palm Coast Campus. The building is designed to Green Globe standards and includes classrooms, a collaborative lecture hall, informal areas for student collaboration and socializing, offices, bookstore and student lounge. The project also includes a 300 stall parking lot and new central energy plant for the campuses heating and cooling needs.

The Flagler/Palm Coast Campus is among Daytona State’s fastest-growing regional campuses. The campus offers college credit, college preparatory and the first year of the two-year Associate Degree Nursing program.

H. J. High and joint venture partner GAC Constructors served as construction manager on the 93,500 sf Advanced Technology Center on Gulf Coast State College’s Panama City campus. The three-story facility is the college’s most energy efficient building and is designed to LEED Gold standards. The steel framed composite structure sits atop nearly 400 precast piles and is enclosed with brick, glass and aluminum composite panels. The most striking features of the building’s architecture are the slanted glass curtain walls that extend from the ground to the roof at one corner of the building, the roof top solar panels, and three roof top wind turbines. The ATC’s roof is designed for hosting community events and includes a serving kitchen, large patio, a tensile fabric shade structure, a park-like vegetative roof, and convenient access to adjacent conference rooms.

The building houses the college’s Small Business Development Center, engineering technology program which emphasizes alternative energy, culinary arts program with a full commercial demonstration kitchen, architecture, computer technology, and music technology with audio and visual labs.

Photography by Eric Marcus Studio

H. J. High converted the former Colt Manufacturing building officially into the college’s new manufacturing training facility. Instead of the traditional ribbon-cutting ceremony, a college trustee and two students pushed a “power on” button to signal the opening of the center.

The Clark Advanced Learning Center integrates a strong academic and technology-based curriculum with career-oriented “real world” experiences for approximately 200 junior and senior high school students. The flexible environment features twelve classrooms and labs surrounding two central “Knowledge Rooms” specially designed and equipped for collaborative research and project-based learning.

The facility is the result of extensive input and involvement with school board members, community college administration and staff, the business community and curriculum specialists. The Clark Advanced Learning Center is envisioned to become the national model of a joint-use facility between a school district and college to provide technology rich academic programs and “real world” business experience.

The Clark Advanced Learning Center was awarded first place for joint use facilities at the Florida Educational Facilities Planning Association’s (FEFPA) 2005 annual meeting. FEFPA is an organization comprised of facilities planning personnel from Florida’s K-12 school districts, community colleges and state schools and universities. The Clark Advanced Learning Center was also awarded the Eagle Award for Excellence in Construction by Associated Builders and Contractors.

This building houses IRSC’s adult education program including GED, English as a second language, and adult high school classes. The three-story 47,000 sf facility is centered on an open three-story atrium with full-height glass curtainwalls sloping outward as they rise. In addition to classrooms, the building includes counselor offices, conference rooms, staff offices, testing areas, skills labs, and a cyber cafe where students are able to access the internet while enjoying a snack between classes. The project also included modifications to existing parking areas along with a new parking lot. The building was constructed of a prestressed concrete joist structural system with exterior masonry and curtainwall veneer.

The 11 building facility is situated on a 55 acres and provides the Treasure Coast with the most sophisticated and well-equipped public safety training facility in Florida. Combining criminal justice, fire science, and forensics in one place, this facility enables IRSC to train 1,200 law enforcement and corrections officers, firefighters, EMTs, paralegals, and social services workers.

The project includes a three story classroom/administrative building, a six story smoke tower, the St. Lucie County Medical Examiner and Crime Lab facility, a 12-lane gun range, a four story burn building, indoor tactical training building, high liability training building, and a fire technology training building along with a central cooling plant.

H. J. High served as construction manager on the 60,000 sf Brown Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship on Indian River State College’s Ft. Pierce campus.

This state-of-the-art facility is built to national Silver LEED specifications for environmental design and offers a business incubator and market analysis lab, as well as an entrepreneurial development suite and strategic planning suite with support services for new and existing, high-tech firms. Home of IRSC’s Regional Center for Nuclear Education and Training as well as the Energy Institute, the Brown Center also features alternative and nuclear energies laboratories and a sustainable building design lab for the college’s highly successful solar energy program.

Indian River State College Kight Center for Emerging Technologies is truly a spectacular centerpiece for the college. A world-class facility, the project began in early 2000 as a 70,000 sf, $7 million project — but as more in-depth design research, programming, additional funding and directives and requests from the college’s administration surfaced, it grew to 108,000 sf and $14 million. The result is a stunning four story structure that surrounds a 70 foot high atrium and is comprised of numerous horizontal and vertical angles and planes.

The project, which broke ground in February 2003, was never a simple one. With its complex structural requirements, including none of the four floors having the same shape, size or floor-to-floor height, the building required custom design and fabrication. Even despite the complicated framing requirements, as well as the vast scope associated with various intricate mechanical and electrical building systems, the project was ahead of schedule and everything was running smoothly.

But then in September 2004, a few months shy of the December 2004 completion date, the hurricanes hit. Luckily, hurricane Charley didn’t cause damage but hurricane Frances battered the project continuously for more than 12 straight hours with heavy rains and powerful winds. Then two weeks later, hurricane Jeanne packed a punch. The extensive damage pushed the project back while we worked at an accelerated pace to replace drywall, glazing and roofing in order to achieve the May 2005 completion date, in time for school to begin in late August. And H. J. High is proud, too, of our dedication to on-the-job safety and optimal working conditions for projects of this size and scope. Given the complicated nature of the project with its many elevated locations and tens of thousands of additional man-hours working to make up for lost time after the hurricanes, it is a testament of our dedication to safety that the only lost time due to accidents on this large project was limited to a minor single injury.