Hutter CM for School Project – Barker Leads Design Team

February 23, 2011

New Ipswich, NH – Hutter Construction Corporation is construction manager for the Mascenic Regional School project in New Ipswich.

New Ipswich, NH – Hutter Construction Corporation is construction manager for the Mascenic Regional School project in New Ipswich. The extensive project consists of a new two-story elementary school totaling just over 74,000sf, a new high school science and technology center totaling 18,000sf, renovations to the existing Mascenic High School and Boynton Middle School as well as conversion of the Greenville Elementary School into district offices.
The design team is led by Barker Architects. Working closely with the architect and Mascenic Building Committee, Hutter Construction was able to bring the original conceptual budget of $28,890,000 down to $20,640,000 through careful budgeting, value engineering and astute buying and subcontracting.
Comprised of masonry block walls and brick veneer, the structure of the new school is common among educational facilities. There are, however, aspects of this project that give it preeminence to others in the state. The new wood pellet boiler heating system for the campus is a first of its kind for an educational facility in New Hampshire in regards to its size and heating capacity of 4,000,000 BTU’s. Constructed adjacent to the high school building, the wood pellet boiler will not only provide the heating for the existing high school, but also for the new science and technology center as well as the new elementary school through underground piping. The system consists of a storage silo, auger, boiler, stack flue, insulated heat supply and return pipes and under-slab radiation.
A progressive design feature is porous bituminous concrete paving located at the new high school parking lot eliminating the need for catch basins and extensive drainage systems. Another relatively novel construction feature is closed-cell spray foam insulation. With an r-value a bit over 6 per inch, spray foam acts as an excellent insulator with the added benefit of being an air vapor barrier.
This project has been a boost to the economy within the school district since a good number of the trades have been subcontracted to local companies. Scheduled to be completed in December of this year, the elementary school will be occupied in January, 2012, when students and teachers return from their Christmas break.