Canyon View High School
瓦德尔,亚利桑那州。
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Owner/Developer:Agua Fria Union高中区
Lead Design Firm:DLR组
General Contractor:Chasse Building Team
Subcontractors:Universal Piping; Stone Cold Masonry; Pueblo Mechanical; Progressive Roofing; Pete King; Schuff Steel


Canyon View High School is an innovative teaching and learning accelerator. The 237,000-sq-ft school is also the nerve center for district-wide professional development. Building the school was an exercise in how architecture and innovation can influence educational outcomes. The design incorporates key engineering strategies that reflect the Agua Fria Union High School District’s goal of creating buildings that are also teaching tools. The result is a high school that focuses on energy efficiency, daylighting and outdoor learning spaces.

Contractor Chasse Building Team won the project in February 2018 with a mandate to finish by July 2019. Actual construction began upon approval of building permits in September 2018, leaving only 10 months to complete the work.

为了响应紧缩的时间表,Chasse Building团队创建了两个独立的项目团队,包括一个由负责人,项目经理和工程师组成的,以重点为每个小组的工作。然后根据主要任务(例如钢铁团队和砖石团队)组成其他团队。反过来,两个主要团队安排了在每个细分市场上工作的交易,并促进了该领域的健康竞争。

为了进一步提高效率,团队还采用了精益建筑原则。在制定了4D时间表并举行了拉装计划后,混凝土和砌体承包商建议更改五座砖石建筑中两座的结构序列,以节省六个星期的时间表。新方法是将砌体垂直,然后将平板倒在两座建筑物上。通过这样做,有限的劳工可以在不等待其他交易完成的情况下完成工作。

The load-bearing masonry walls for the large volume areas are aesthetically pleasing but also serve as an efficient thermal barrier. The structural-steel educational buildings form flexible academic “forts,” creating high volumes for daylighting and extensive shading for the outdoor spaces. One of the forts is also engaging in research on the effectiveness of bio-phase change materials. Also known by its patented name, BioPCM, bio-phase change materials are substances that absorb and then release large amounts of thermal energy while melting and freezing.

In 2008, experimental work on the construction applications of BioPCMs was carried out by Arizona Public Service in collaboration with Phase Change Energy Solutions. The experimental setup showed maximum energy savings of about 30%. Energy savings in the BioPCM fort at Canyon View High School is expected to be about 50%.


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