Progress continues at Meadow View Elementary – Martinsville Bulletin

COLLINSVILLEMeadow View Elementary continues to take shape. On Thursday, the Henry County School Board received an update on the project, which is scheduled to open in December.

Keith Scott, the school districts director of facilities maintenance, said the construction phase of the project is still going strong.

We know that the concrete slabs on both wings A and B which are the wings for the classrooms that you see in the back portion both of [them have] been poured and are well underway, Scott said.

Roofers have also mobilized and have started working on wings A and B.

Were about 80-percent dried in on both of those wings, Scott said.

Continuing their work, masons are helping form section C, which is the gym area.

Were expecting to see some roofing taking place at that section within the next week or two, Scott said.

With all of the action taking place, theres only been one minor issue and its one that Scott certainly doesnt mind.

Theres a lot of trades continuing to work on Meadow View, Scott said. We had a progress meeting yesterday, and I think its a good problem, but were running out of parking for all the trades thats out there. So thats a good sign a lot of activity going on.

Trades refers to the various work crews handling the project, as each has a different specialty and assignment. In addition to the building, crews have also started installing a natural gas line on the property.

While the school board receives monthly updates from Scott about the site where children from John Redd Smith and Collinsville Primary will attain their education during the second semester of the 2017-18 school year, the director of facilities maintenance said theres a new, faster way to keep up with the construction sites progress and anyone can access it at any time.

Theres a construction camera installed for your view, Scott said.

The recently installed device takes pictures of the progress, which are then uploaded to the HCPS website. Hovering over About, then clicking on Meadow View Elementary School Project will take viewers to a page hosting an artists rendering of the new facility.

Clicking on Construction Web Cam takes the viewer to a photo gallery or time lapse video of the site.

You can go through and watch. It snaps pictures every 30 minutes, Scott said. You can watch a little video of how its progressed over the past or you can just flip through pictures if you like to. So thats there for the public viewing on it as well.

School Board Chairman Curtis Millner asked about the Virginia Department of Transportations progress on the access lanes.

We had a meeting last week to just kind of prepare for the paperwork, Scott said.

Scott revealed that the construction site sub-contractor temporarily pulled off of the Meadow View project due to unfavorable weather conditions and in order to work on other projects.

They were kind of ahead of schedule anyway, Scott said. Now they have mobilized back to site. We had a meeting with VDOT and how to record that information and that stuff is well underway as well, in-between weather of course.

Dr. Joseph DeVault, member-at-large, asked if the construction was still on schedule for a mid-year 2017-18 opening.

We talked a little about that in the progress meeting yesterday, Scott said. The contractor still feels pretty good about where he is, but weve also agreed that in our June progress meeting to really get a final answer of where we are. That will kind of give him enough time to get through, finish up with his site work and kind of really address and see how far along we are.

Whether it opens a little earlier or a little later than expected, the schools progress is apparently already the buzz of the county.

I continue to hear positive comments from the public who drive by there, DeVault said. Theyre very complimentary of what theyre seeing now. Im sure it will be more so when its all finished.

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Progress continues at Meadow View Elementary - Martinsville Bulletin