The Reno only option is probably from the High School Project table – Martha’s Vineyard Times

The officials who plan the next building of the Martha Regional High School in Martha are reducing their recovery capabilities and possibly the passage to the road is the most cheapest option -to fully renovate the current building.

According to the architects of the project, the transition only with reconstruction will risk losing approximately 30 percent recovery from the state through the school for the construction of the school in Massachusetts.

The High School Construction Committee is composed of representatives of the school and island cities and they are working to present three final projects of the state body until May: a project for repair only, one for a project for application for repair and a project and one of a whole new building.

Confirmation of the Reno option comes as employees are trying to reduce square frames and the corresponding project costs. More than a dozen early designs presented by Tappé Architects in December came with estimated prices of about $ 200 million to renovate to over $ 400 million for some new construction options.

But employees on Tuesday said a project only would seriously threaten recovery, confirming the potential noted by partners Already in OctoberS

The reason must be made Summary of space Approved by the Committee that tells MSBA that the project will correspond to a size of 211,000 square feet. This number reflects school education programs as well as Square feet requirements by MSBA.

But since the high school is currently only about 165,000 square feet, staff said the update option would be short with nearly 50,000 square feet.

“When we approved the size of the space, it eliminates the ability to carry out repair or repair to be an option, as it does not meet this requirement for space we have approved,” said Commission member Dion Ali.

The Committee may eventually choose to review its resume if it wants to go with repair, although some members consider this option that it is no longer feasible.

“We seem to have eliminated this option,” said Skipper Manter. “And I’m not sure all people will respect it,” he added, “because we accepted the square footage and other things we talked about, we took this option from the table.”

Also, at the Tuesday meeting, the committee was narrowing the worse designs, progressing to the arrival of one of each of the three types of projects. In October Tappé presented One design of repairFive designs to addition of the supplement and 13 for a whole new high school building.

As of Tuesday, there are three of the new construction designs, along with one improvement of an addition and one renovation.

While narrowing the new construction options on Tuesday, members preferred three preliminary designs. One presented two -storey academic sections and central space in the yard with an adjoining cafe and a media center, and the other showed three -storey academic wings. The school business administrator Mark Friedman asked Tappé to assess whether the center of executive arts without windows could be placed inside the building, unlike the outer edge of the structure.

Main Sarah Dinglidi also noted her concerns about the use of modular units if the Commission decides to build a whole new structure. The price of modular units cannot be restored by MSBA, and Chris Shari from Tappé noted that the use of modular buildings during construction can add 12 to 18 months to the project. He also told Dingledy that his company would consider the ways in which a new variant of phases can be built, limiting construction to certain parts of the school at a time.

The Committee gathers every two weeks and will continue to narrow the preliminary designs in its next meeting.