October 9, 2015

Skanska builds $50M middle school in Lynnwood

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The new Alderwood school will be about 114,000 square feet with a two-story main classroom and library building adjacent to a one-story gymnasium and commons area.

Skanska USA Building said Thursday it recorded in its books the final $38.8 million of a nearly $50 million GC/CM contract with the Edmonds School District to build the new Alderwood Middle School in Lynnwood.

Skanska has been working at the site north of Martha Lake Elementary since late June. The elementary school is at 17500 Larch Way, on a site that was planned in 1964 to be a shared campus for elementary and middle schools.

The middle school's design concept, budget and schedule are based on the district's recent project at Meadowdale Middle School, which Skanska also built.

The new Alderwood school will be about 114,000 square feet with a two-story main classroom and library building adjacent to a one-story gymnasium and commons area.

Skanska will also build site improvements for new sports fields, roads and parking, emergency vehicle access, neighborhood pedestrian connections, and stormwater management facilities.

Martha Lake Elementary will remain occupied during construction, which will wrap up in January 2017.

Integrus Architecture is the designer.

The project's total budget of $68 million was funded by a 2014 bond measure.

The existing Alderwood Middle School was built in 1965 at 20000 28th Ave. W. in Lynnwood, about three miles south of the Martha Lake site. The district considers the existing school to be functionally obsolete and its buildings past their useful lives.