Newton North High School Newton, Massachusetts

Trip Elmore, while working for Turner Construction Company, was the Project Executive in charge of Owner's Project Management (OPM) services for the new Newton North High School, the Commonwealth's first completed LEED-for-Schools™ project. Dore & Whittier was the Architect of Record for the 412,000 sf project that includes 60 regular education classrooms, 16 science classrooms, 22 special education classrooms, career technical education spaces for carpentry, automotive, culinary arts, green engineering, and other specialty spaces; television studio, language lab, lecture hall and food service/cafeteria. The project includes a full sports facility consisting of an indoor track, a 12,500 sf competition gym, natatorium, wrestling room & dance studio, exercising room, 10 outdoor tennis courts, a stadium with a synthetic turf and 2,000 seats, assorted playing fields and 6 team lockers rooms. The performing arts component consists of a 600-seat theater with a full fly loft and a black box performance space. The Owner has received LEED™ Gold certification which makes Newton North the first school in the State to receive this designation. Prior to construction of new building, significant underground asbestos abatement was required, as well as, 80% of the existing 450,000 sf school required abatement during demolition.

This project was constructed under MGL Ch. 149A with a Construction Manager at Risk delivery method. This approach saved significant time, provided financial transparency into the cost, and contributed to a very successful project with no subcontractor claims.

Project Details

• Owner City of Newton
• Completed Building 2010; Demolition 2011
• Cost $197.5 million

This major project was carefully planned so as to not disrupt ongoing high school educational operations abutting the site. The project was completed ahead of schedule and under budget. OPM services provided included:

• Program management
• Coordination with the MSBA
• Community relations
• City Department Coordination
• Designer and CM selection
• Design reviews and value engineering
• Prequalification of CM and Subcontractors
• Budget reporting and forecasting for Owner
• Full-time On-site project manager
• Quality control oversight and reporting
• Project meetings and record keeping
• Schedule review and management
• Coordinated Owner provided testing and other services
• Review and negotiation of change orders
• Review of all payment application
• Commissioning oversight
• Punchlist Management
• Warranties/Training Coordination
• FF&E procurement/Coordination
• Owner move-in