The shell of the Ella Maxwell Center for the Performing Arts at Nevada High School is awaiting the completion of the west wall and the installion of the roof to become weather tight. Photo by Ralph Pokorny/Daily Mail
Construction on the Ella Maxwell Center for the Performing Arts is running ahead of schedule and the current estimated completion date is Aug. 21, Aaron Hight, Crossland's construction manager for the project, told the Nevada R-5 Board of Education during a work session before their regular monthly meeting Wednesday."That's 31 days ahead of schedule," Hight told the board.
There is still a lot of winter left, so weather can still create construction delays until the roof in installed, he said.
Hight told the board the project is 16.08 percent complete, but that number will go up once the roof is installed and the building is closed in.
Hight said that the concrete for both the upper and lower level stages has been poured.
He told the board that until now they have kept the floor inside the arts center flat to facilitate work, but on Monday they will start digging out the interior of the building so they can pour the floor. That will take three or four days.
"That will take four separate pours for the interior floor," he said,
"The load bearing walls will be completed this month," he said.
Hight told the board they will be bringing in a 220 ton crane in mid-March to put the steel roof supports on the structure.
The crane will be located in Ashland Street, north of the construction site.
Initially Hight told the board that their plan was to have the crane in place between the time students are dropped off at the high school and when they are picked up in the afternoon.
However, R-5 superintendent Dr. David Stephens suggested that since the school break will be from March 10-16 that might be a good time to do this.
"I'll make sure that happens then," Hight said.
He told the board that the floor for the multi-purpose building has been poured and now the work on it is largely at a stand-still until the steel for the building is delivered.
"We will get the steel at the end of March," Hight said.
While waiting for the steel he said they will be able to start work on the masonry walls.
In addition to the work on the performing arts center and the multi-purpose building, Hight said that he has been working with Elliott Hunter, the architect for the projects at the high school, and Stephens on increasing security at all of the district's school buildings.
"Next week we will visit all of the schools and will do the work over the summer," he said.
Hunter told the board they are developing a plan.
"It will mean adding an air lock at most of the schools," he said,
Visitors will be able to enter the first door and then need to be buzzed in the second door, he said.
"It's not bullet proof, but it's the cheapest option," Hunter said.
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