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Springfield, MO
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Springfield, MO
General contractor: Q & Co. LLC
Architect: Buxton Kubik Dodd Design Collective, project and landscape
Engineers: Olsson Inc., civil; Miller Engineering PC, structural; Buxton Kubik Dodd Design Collective, mechanical, electrical and plumbing; and Own Inc., geotechnical
Size: 200,000 square feet
Cost: $37 million
Estimated completion: Summer
Description: Convoy of Hope’s new offices will provide a home base for the nonprofit’s worldwide relief efforts and include expanded training and communication resources, officials say. The expansion is located adjacent to the distribution center, and the buildings will be attached through a skywalk. The building’s post-tensioned cast-in-place concrete and steel frame structure includes decorative metal wall panels and aluminum and glass features. The space will initially house Convoy of Hope’s 250 employees under one roof with room to expand to 500, project officials say. An in-house auditorium will seat up to 700 people for training seminars, and it’ll also be equipped with audiovisual editing suites for marketing production.
A safe room and classroom addition at Willard Central Elementary School will be used by the music, arts and athletic programs for a district that had 4,536 students last year, according to Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education figures, but school officials say enrollment is projected to grow.
