Cambridge MA – Symmes Maini & McKee Associates (SMMA), a Cambridge-based architecture and engineering firm, earned a 2010 Planning and Design Excellence Award from the Council of Educational Facility Planners International (CEPFI) for planning and designing phased new construction that will transform Quincy High School for the 2010 academic year.
Along with the 330,000sf design, the CEPFI award recognizes the project’s complex planning, which allowed the school to remain in downtown Quincy close to civic amenities including mass transit stops, avoid disruption of adjacent shoreline wetlands, and allow the school’s educational mission to remain operational during a 40-month construction schedule divided into four phases:
Construction of the new science and technology academy adjacent to original school and demolition of original vocational school wing; construction of new humanities, fine arts and ninth grade academies, administration spaces, gymnasium and a state of the art theater; construction of new athletic fields and parking and conversion of the original 1921 High School into Quincy Public Schools’ administrative offices.