Summer 2008 Project Profile: Republic High School

General contractor: Branco Enterprises Inc. of Neosho

Architect: Jack Ball & Associates Architects PC

Engineer: HBH Engineers LLC

Estimated cost: $31 million

Crews are completing site work and erecting steel for the Republic R-III School District's 268,000-square-foot high school, which will have a three-story curving façade with administrative offices on the first floor and classrooms on the second and third floors. The project also includes a vocational center, which is nearing completion, and athletic facilities for baseball, softball and track. Completion is scheduled for 2010.