From the Ground Up: Nixa High and Nixa Junior High, Phase I

Owner/developer: Nixa Public Schools
General contractor: R.E. Smith Construction Co.
Architect: Sapp Design Associates Architects PC
Engineers: Shaffer & Hines Inc., civil; Toth and Associates Inc., structural; and Colvin Jones Davis LLC, mechanical, electrical and plumbing
Size: 49,500 square feet
Estimated cost: $6.5 million
Lender: None
Estimated completion date: June
Project description: Phase I of the project is adding 26,500 square feet to the high school and 23,000 square feet to the junior high for classrooms, and science and computer labs, said Nixa Public Schools spokesman Zac Rantz. He said the expansion, which is funded by general obligation bonds, was bid as a single project. Phase II, which is pending passage of a 2014 bond issue, would include a 14,000-square-foot wrestling and weight room/Federal Emergency Management Agency safe room addition at the high school and a complete remodel of the junior high entrance.

Send project info to bbrown@sbj.net.