Friday, March 15, 2013
The ceremonial final beam was hosted and secured to the framework on Wednesday, March 13 at the elementary school in Lexington, the latest step toward a new school and pushing the PCB saga into the past.
Exciting news out of Estabrook School, where the design team dropped its final, ceremonial framework beam before an eager audience earlier this week. According to an announcement from Regan Communications, the topping off ceremony was attended by hundreds of students and residents, who watched the final beam hoisted up and secured into the framework. Estabrook students reportedly had he chance to sign the final beam before it was put in place. Shawmut Design and Construction was the construction company selected to build the new Estabrook Elementary School in the fall of 2012. And this latest ceremony comes just a few months after an October groundbreaking ceremony, which marked the ceremonial start of the building project. The …
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Friday, October 19, 2012
After the discovery of PCBs before the 2010-2011 school year, the Lexington elementary school has been on the fast track through the MSBA approval process and now onto construction.
Here at Lexington’s Estabrook Elementary School for a day that’s been two long, hard years in the making, State Treasurer Steve Grossman, the chairman of the Massachusetts School Building Authority, looked to the podium he stood behind to find the perfect words to open and close his address. “I don’t think any phrase could be better than ‘What a morning in America,’” Grossman said, taking small liberties with the town motto, “What a glorious morning for America,” scripted in the town seal that adorned his podium. “What a glorious morning here in Lexington, a perfect day, a beautiful day for a new beginning.” The other officials felt the same way. They were here for a groundbreaking ceremony to at Estabrook Elementary School, marking the …
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Tuesday, April 3, 2012
By unanimous voice vote, an April 2 special Town Meeting approved a new Estabrook School building project with a few moving parts and potential to earn LEED Silver certification and 37 percent reimbursement from the MSBA.
The Lexington Public Schools are one step closer to making polychlorinated biphenyls a part of Estabrook Elementary School’s past. A special Town Meeting on Monday, April 2, approved funding for a new Estabrook School, which landed on the fast track to new construction following the discovery of elevated levels of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) at the school at the start of the 2010-2011 school year. The project was previously approved through a debt exclusion vote at a special town election in January and, just last week, got the nod from the Massachusetts School Building Authority to advance planning into the project scope and budget phase. On Monday, Town Meeting unanimously approved an appropriation of $40,792,248 for the …
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From PCBs to three stories, Estabrook Elementary School's building situation has evolved from failed remediation efforts to a $41 million design.
Estabrook Elementary School hopped on the fast track to a rebuild in the summer of 2010, when officials discovered higher-than-recommended levels of PCBs in the air at the school. That fall, after months of remediation work couldn’t solve the PCB problem, the School Committee authorized submittal of an emergency statement of interest (SOI) to the Massachusetts School Building Authority seeking funding for a new Estabrook. The project moved into the MSBA’s capital pipeline for potential funding in February 2011, progressed through the feasibility study and schematic design phases and eventually earned approval last week to advance to the project scope and budget phase. About this time last year, annual Town Meeting voted to appropriate $1.…
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Thursday, December 22, 2011
The School Committee approved a design concept for a three-story Estabrook School. The proposal will now go before the Massachusetts School Building Authority -- and to voters who will be asked to vote on debt exclusion in January.
A new Estabrook School likely would be a three-story building with a north-south orientation and glass staircases that carry natural light deep inside the elementary school. This design concept, endorsed by the School Department, Permanent Building Committee and now the School Committee, has a smaller footprint than other options and a price tag between about $39 and $42.8 million, according to DiNisco Design Partnership, the Boston-based architectural firm working on the project. On Tuesday, Dec. 20, the School Committee’s vote to sign off on this design concept garnered some light applause from a small audience, which was supportive of the design but inquisitive about the payment plan. The approval was the latest step in the process …
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Tuesday, June 28, 2011
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The Estabrook School Access Ad Hoc Task Force met for the first time last night to introduce itself to the community, set goals and establish a timeline. The 15-member ETF, charged with fleshing out site access issues with construction on the new Estabrook Elementary School, was created in mid-May after Town Meeting decided to double its original appropriaiton for design and engineering right-of-way modifications and focus on access to Estabrook, rather than just on Robinson Road. Need for a new Estabrook School came to the fore last year after PCBs were discovered in the school. Town officials appropriated $1 million for PCB remediation and learned the MSBA would reimburse up to 40 percent of the cost of new school construction, officials…
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A group of public officials, parents, faculty and neighborhood representatives met last night at the Department of Public Works.
The 15-member ad hoc task force formed to flesh out site access issues with construction on the new Estabrook Elementary School met for the first time last night to establish a list of goals and set a basic timeline for action. The group was formed in mid-May, after an April Town Meeting did not go as planned for parents, members of the School Committee and nearby residents, who sought money from the town to design safer access points into Estabrook while the new school is built, and into the new school after construction is finished. "For all of us, the priority is keeping our kids safe," Michelle Ciccolo, the task force's chair, said. At Town Meeting, a motion to reconsider an earlier $100,000 appropriation to design an expanded Robinson…
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8:06 pm on Friday, October 19, 2012
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