New Town High School
Location: Baltimore County, Maryland
Client: Baltimore County Public Schools
JMT provided site design, landscape architecture, and surveying
services for the first new high school constructed in Baltimore
County in 25 years, New Town High School.
Baltimore County completed construction of New Town High School
in Owings Mills to relieve crowding in the local public schools
system. JMT teamed with a local architect, who was
responsible for the overall project, to provide site design,
landscape architecture, and surveying services. An aggressive
construction schedule was implemented to meet the prospective
demand for classroom space.
The project was developed using a two-phased approach due to an
extremely short duration schedule.
Phase I involved the preparation of mass grading plans to allow
for the start of construction of the school's foundation. Services
included, development of site layout including building
location/elevation; design layout of athletic facilities including
football stadium, three baseball fields, two soccer fields, six
tennis courts and two basketball courts; design layout for
roadways, 350 car parking lot, ADA accessibility, loading dock and
sidewalks/pedestrian facilities; development of preliminary "final"
grading plans and mass grading plans involving 350,000 CY of
excavation and 45 acres of area; analysis and design for two SWM
ponds and extensive erosion and sediment control facilities;
topographic and property surveys; wetland and forest conservation
permitting. Due to an extremely tight schedule, the above
design tasks had to be completed in a three-month period to obtain
a grading permit for the project so that grading and building
foundation construction could begin as soon as possible. Extensive
coordination was required between the Baltimore County Public
Schools, the architect, the mechanical engineer and the
construction manager to keep the project and design on
schedule.
Phase II services, during the Site Development phase, involved
several disciplines: Development/refinement of site layout design
including roadways, parking lots, athletic facilities, sidewalks
and ADA accessibility; preparation of extensive landscape plans;
traffic signal design for school bus exit onto Lakeside Boulevard;
final grading plan design; utility design including water and sewer
hook-ups; design of approximately 1,000 linear feet of retaining
walls; extensive erosion/sediment control plans for final grading;
design of extensive irrigation and storm drain systems; design of
athletic field appurtenances and site furniture including
backstops, fencing, benches, special soil mixes, running track and
playground area. Extensive coordination was required between the
Baltimore County Public Schools, the architect, the mechanical
engineer and the construction manager to keep the project and
design on schedule.
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