Location: Cloverdale
Cost: $6.1 million
Completion: August 2023
Owner/Developer: Nestucca Valley School District
Owner’s Representative: Otak/DAY CPM
Architect: ZCS Engineering & Architecture
Engineers: ZCS Engineering & Architecture, Geotechical Resources (GRI), Colbreit Engineering
General Contractor: O’Brien & Co.
Submitting Company: O’Brien & Co.
Subcontractors: Architectural Metalcrafters, Authority Dock & Door, Bridgetown Sales, Builders First Source, Building Material Specialties, Butlers Custom Sheet Metal, Caslin, DSL Builders, Dulac’s Cabinets and Woodworking, Farnham Electric Construction, Floor Solutions, Groat Brothers, Jet Industries, JH Kelly dba Portland Mechanical Contractors, Key West Retaining Systems, Knife River Corp.-Northwest, Lazer Site Surveying, Mckillip Drywall, Mid-Valley Glass & Millwork, Milne Masonry, Northwest Mechanical, Olson Asphalt Maintenance, Pacific Building Systems, RK Concrete, Smith Glass Service, Solid Form Fabrication, TGC Structural, Willamette Fence
Like many rural areas, the Nestucca region of the Oregon Coast faces challenges in providing diverse and accessible educational opportunities for youth.
The Nestucca Valley School District’s new Career Technical Education Center seeks to address the issue by offering hands-on opportunities for technical and vocational education.
The old building that once housed the CTE program was demolished. Because students temporarily lost that space, the construction project became an educational experience. The project superintendent spent Saturdays, on his own time, teaching CTE students throughout the project.
The new building had to be expandable and flexible to adapt quickly to industry changes, which drive changes in CTE programs. A pre-engineered metal building forms the exterior, while inside, a wood-framed “building within a building” with a second story fills that shell. This approach provided the warmth of natural wood and was more cost-effective as the price of lumber was declining while the cost of steel was increasing during the build.
The shop space is set up for welding and industrial manufacturing, and the remaining area is designed as flex space with a wood shop, wet lab, agricultural science labs and small engine repair counters. Students enrolled in the CTE program and welding classes built their own desks, and they created many of the materials used for their workstations that shield each other from the work that they are doing in the new building.
Students and educators had access to hand tools donated by the general contractor, as well as cutting-edge technology including a 3D laser cutting machine. Rolling doors allow the space to adapt to large and different projects.
The school has its own water supply system fed by a private reservoir, which in turn is filled by an artesian well. Utilizing the adjacent creek to feed the water and fire systems in the building was a new experience for the construction team. The site is cut into a hillside in a geohazard area, and 10-foot retaining walls and a 16-foot cut slope were designed and built around the backside of the building to facilitate construction of a building pad in the steep terrain.
Safety was paramount throughout the project, with zero accidents recorded on the site.
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