A new media center, state-of-the-art science classrooms and an expanded gym are on tap for Santa Fe High School in Santa Fe, N.M., with crews from Albuquerque-based HB Construction eyeing a completion in time for the spring semester
Work on the $6.7 million project started in January, with crews starting work in the core of the campus, creating the need for some serious logistical solutions.

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"The biggest challenge is just trying to be productive in an active environment like a high school is with students and faculty," said Jason Harrington, vice president of HB Construction. "We are working right in the center of the campus, but because this is the second phase of construction, they are getting used to us."

The new construction is really three separate projects with two different design firms in a joint venture. Albuquerque-based BPLW Architects led the design on the 22,000-sq.-ft. science center, while Santa Fe-based Ellis-Browning shared design work on the 12,000-sq.-ft. library and 5,000-sq.-ft. renovation of the gymnasium. Work is underway on the library and the science center, with plans to hold of renovating the gymnasium early next year.