Lake Central High School

The renovation and additions to Lake Central High School involved removing more than half of the existing building, as well as a 550,000-SF addition. Using technology to provide greater efficiency, Schmidt Associates created a real-time collaborative process to deliver a design unique to the needs of the school. The new construction includes a three-story academic wing with 92 new classrooms, including specialty teaching spaces for art, science, vehicle repair, printing, and metalworking. Other new construction included a 50-meter Olympic pool with shared community use, competition gymnasium, 1,100-seat auditorium, music rehearsal space, and media center. The project also included new athletic facilities with artificial turf football, baseball, and softball fields, as well as more than 1.6 million gallons of underground stormwater detention. Construction was delivered in a phased approach, with special attention to strategized staging, as students occupied the facility throughout the process.

Schmidt Associates has continued to work with Lake Central High School providing annual optimization services. The optimization team, including our controls systems specialist, perform site inspections, identify issues, and then resolve them in each of the following five categories: occupant comfort, reliability, energy efficiency, operational efficiency, and extended equipment lift.

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