The recently approved construction manager for the Stratford High School renovation project, Turner Construction, and architect Antinozzi Associates met on Jan. 23 at the school to start to get “a field sense” for how the various options being considered would affect scheduling and the students, according to SHS Renovation Subcommittee Chairman Alan Llewelyn.
Turner was approved as the construction manager (CM) by the Town Council on Jan. 12. During the CM selection process, Turner introduced a sixth option for the building and renovation project on top of the five that Antinozzi had asked the CM candidates to review.
The six options are all variations and extensions of renovating current buildings and adding new construction to the campus.
Part of the considerations at this early stage is whether to recommend closing King Street, which runs between the back of the school and athletics fields, in order to connect buildings that are being planned for both sides of it. A recently completed traffic study of impacts of closing King Street is expected to be explained in detail at the next subcommittee meeting, tentatively scheduled for Feb. 19.
Llewelyn said he expects the discussion of King Street to help the subcommittee focus in on which of the six proposals might be favored by the group.