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Houston
Independent School District
Facility
Assessment Program
Houston, Texas
Program
Manager Administrative Contact:
Mr. Ron Holleyhead
Project Director
Houston
Independent School District Bond Program
5995 Rogerdale Road
Houston, Texas 77072
832.351.7212
Role:
Educational Adequacy Assessment
Standards Development
Space Inventory
Brief
Description:
Completed Educational Adequacy Assessment for 245 schools identifying
adequacy deficiencies, developed a comprehensive set of standards and
prepared a space inventory for the approximately 25 million square feet
of space owned by HISD.
Completion
Date:
1999
Program
Highlights:
Executed the assessment of a large urban district
Facilitated district-wide standards development
Developed principal and teacher questionnaires
Conducted a detailed space inventory
Initiated a community outreach program
Provided funding scenarios for successful $700 million bond referendum
Having
recently failed to pass a $395 million bond referendum in 1996, HISD retained
the joint venture of CRSS and 3D/International to conduct a comprehensive
facility assessment of all HISD-owned schools. Magellan was retained to
lead the Educational Adequacy Assessment portion and to compile the space
inventory. Vanderwiel Facility Advisors was retained to provide the assessment
software.
Over
a nine-month period, Magellan developed a comprehensive set of standards,
created an educational adequacy process that would meet the recommendations
of the recently completed John Sharp Texas School Performance Review and
managed the process of getting all245 HISD school facilities on CAD so
that a space inventory could be compiled. During this period, a community
outreach program was put in place to communicate the progress of the assessment,
along with the results. Great emphasis was placed on community participation
and involvement, and questionnaires were sent to every principal and 11,000
teachers to solicit input regarding their educational facilities.
Upon
completion of the assessment, a total escalated need of $1.2 billion was
identified. When bond counsel suggested that the maximum bond that could
pass was $700 million, the HISD school board had some difficult decisions
to make. Should bond funds be allocated over every school, ensuring that
only a portion of each school's needs would be addressed; or should only
the worst schools be addressed, leaving the schools in better condition
to be funded through subsequent bond elections? Because of the comprehensive
and objective nature of the overall study, HISD elected to address schools
on a "worst-first" basis and the $700 million bond passed in
November of 1999.
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Houston
Independent School District
Post Occupancy Evaluation and Construction Planning Services
Houston, Texas
Administrative
Contact:
Mr. Ron Holleyhead
Program Director
Houston Independent School District
5995 Rogerdale Road
Houston, Texas 77072
832.351.7212
Role:
Construction Implementation Planning
Post-Occupancy Evaluation
Bond Action Plan
Brief
Description:
Magellan provided construction implementation planning providing HISD
with a detailed management plan that addressed a number of alternative
delivery strategies, an action plan including 30-, 60- and 120-day action
items, and a post-occupancy evaluation of five schools that were to be
considered for prototypical designs.
Completion
Date:
2000
Program
Highlights:
Developed alternative delivery strategies
Designed action plan
Conducted market capacity study
Provided post-occupancy evaluation
In
anticipation of a successful bond election, Magellan prepared a number
of reports to aid in the fast start of HISD's construction program. The
leadership at HISD felt it was imperative that the taxpayer see immediate
action if the bond was passed. To facilitate this, Magellan first developed
a management plan that identified alternative delivery strategies for
procuring design and construction services. These alternatives ranged
from traditional design/bid/build to construction manager-at-risk to a
fully privatized funding solution. The management plan identified lessons
learned from the previous 10-year construction program and recommended
a CM-Agent approach.
Subsequent
to the management plan, Magellan prepared a detailed action plan that
addressed all of the items that needed to be completed prior to the bond
election, and for the 30-, 60,- and 120-day periods following. This plan
called for an immediate start-up that focused on new school construction,
renovation of existing sites and development of an accelerated design
and construction qualifications process. In order to interface with the
design and construction community, HISD worked with the local chapters
of the American Institute of Architects and the Association of General
Contractors to develop contracting language and procedures that would
be acceptable to and understood by all parties. In concert with this effort,
Magellan prepared a Market Capacity Analysis that determined the approximate
design and construction capability for the Houston Metropolitan area.
The
post-occupancy evaluation studied five elementary schools that had been
designed in the early 1980s as prototypical schools. These schools were
targeted to minimize design fees and, more importantly, to allow for a
fast construction start on sites already owned by HISD. The evaluation
team spent one day at each campus and interviewed principals, teachers,
custodial staff, parents and students. The student interviews were fashioned
to provide the students with an awareness of architecture as a career
and to solicit student input. Energy audits were conducted at each school.
The schools' original architectural programs and construction budgets
were also reviewed in order to compare actual results to planned budgets.
The final analysis revealed that a combination of ADA, code and administrative
organization would require significant modification to each of the prototypical
designs and that these changes would negate any possible savings in money
and time. The prototypical school designs were not repeated.
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