SHAPE International School, Belgium

The new Belgian School of the Shape International Schools (SIS) facility will be a three (3) story academic classroom building with a total gross enclosed area of approximately 5,500 square meters. The project will construct a new Belgian educational facility to replace the existing facilities located at the 700 Area at SHAPE. The facility will be a multi-story school for Belgium. Interior spaces include:

administrative offices, multi-purpose classrooms, information center, mechanical rooms, restrooms, halls, computer network areas, storage rooms, utility rooms, and other required areas for a fully functional school. Site improvements include playgrounds, exterior lighting, and recreation areas, signage, fencing, paving and landscaping. The project includes related infrastructure such as water, gas, sewer, storm drainage, and electrical service.

The design is compatible with the architecture of the existing buildings and uses the same design vocabulary; vertically modulated brick piers and green roofs for the academic portion and a brick base, corrugated metal panel walls and standing seam metal roofs for the special use spaces. The academic building is comprised of a three (3) story section organized on the east side of the campus commons. The cast-in-place concrete structure includes exterior concrete walls as backup for brick wall systems.

Interior walls are plaster finished concrete block. Roof is flat with both a green roof system and photovoltaics. The building will meet or exceed all relevant Belgian codes. The acceptance and turn-over must be integrated with the academic calendar of the SIS.

Magnitude of Construction: $10,000,000 - $25,000,000