The architecture firm hired to design a new Central Middle School called the Board of Education’s current plan “unachievable” on Tuesday, saying it was impossible to fit the approved amount of classroom space into a 115,000 square foot building. The ed specs were approved in August 2022 and call for 88,300 square feet of learning space in a 115,311 square feet building. The SLAM Collaborative, the architects on the project, said that a school with 88,000 square feet of learning space would need to be at least 135,000 square feet when factoring in space for heating and cooling equipment, electrical closets, wall thickness and other required infrastructure. Laura Kostin, a member of the BOE that sits on the CMS building committee, said the committee needs to give specific revisions to get the building down to a workable size. SLAM is making adjustments to its proposed building designs and it will present a new design at 130,000 to 135,000 square feet to the CMS Design Review Committee at 4 p.m. March 8 during a virtual meeting.
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