McCarthy Completes Carlsbad High School Stadium Construction in North San Diego County

March 24, 2010 - PRLog -- McCarthy Building Companies, Inc., one of the nation's leading education facility builders, has completed construction for a new athletic stadium at Carlsbad High School, located at 3557 Lancer Way in Carlsbad, Calif.
   The stadium represents the second phase of a three-phased, $86 million construction renovation of Carlsbad High School that McCarthy began in June 2008. Carlsbad High School is among eight schools within the Carlsbad Unified School District (CUSD) being constructed or modernized with funding from Proposition P, a $198 million bond measure passed by voters in 2006.
   A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held March 11 to commemorate the completion of the stadium and give special recognition to project consultants, subcontractors, McCarthy team members, and representatives of CUSD. Mark Tanner, president of the CUSD Board of Trustees, presided over the event while John Roach, Ed.D., district superintendent, acknowledged the high school's football, soccer, lacrosse, track, cheerleader and dance teams and the school's band. CUSD Board of Trustees and Carlsbad High School class officers performed the ribbon-cutting.
   The stadium phase, valued at $13.6 million, included demolition of the existing stadium, installation of underground utility infrastructure, and construction of a new 3,900-seat athletic stadium with aluminum bleachers and a synthetic track and field area. The scope of work included construction of a new 10,000-square-foot building that houses locker rooms, restrooms and concession areas. A prominent feature of the new stadium is a Pop Warner-sponsored scoreboard with state-of-the-art LED technology for animated messaging.
   "The new stadium is a stark contrast to the 50-year-old stadium that formerly existed on the site," said Craig Swenson, project director for McCarthy. "Despite the heavy rains we experienced in recent months, and the challenges posed by the confined site and limited access to the work areas once work on the football field and track began, we're pleased with how well it came together."
   The Carlsbad High School modernization and construction project has been divided into multiple phases to allow the school to continue operating during the projected three-year-long construction period. McCarthy will soon break ground on the final phase, which involves construction of eleven new permanent education structures. The one- and two-story education buildings will comprise 99,000 square feet of classroom, performing arts, vocational education lab, and food service space. Completion of this final phase is slated for fall 2011.
   The initial phase, performed in the later half of 2008, required McCarthy to set up temporary classroom facilities for students, along with the utilities to support these facilities.
   Perkins+Will is the project architect for the entire modernization project.  Other design consultants include John A. Martin & Associates, structural engineer; Leighton Engineering, geotechnical engineer; Cornerstone Engineering, Inc., civil engineer; Johnson Consulting Engineers, Inc., electrical engineer; Donn C. Gilmore & Associates, mechanical engineer; and Lightfoot Planning Group as the landscape architect. The Planning Center provided the Environmental Impact Report.
   Gafcon is the program manager. Erik Reuter is serving as director of school construction on behalf of the CUSD.

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About McCarthy Building Companies:

McCarthy Building Companies, Inc. is the nation’s 10th largest domestic general contractor (Engineering News-Record, May 2009) and among the top 10 education builders (Engineering News-Record, October 2006). The firm has been building in the education market for the last 50 years. Committed to the construction of high performance buildings, the company has managed construction or built more than 300 K-12 school projects nationwide, totaling more than $2 billion in construction value, and nearly 100 higher education projects on more than 50 campuses. In addition to San Diego, McCarthy has offices in Newport Beach, Sacramento and San Francisco, Calif.; Phoenix; Las Vegas; St. Louis; Dallas and Atlanta. McCarthy is 100 percent employee owned. More information about the company is available online at www.mccarthy.com.