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PROJECT NAME: |
Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology Fairfax County, Virginia |
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Description |
Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and
Technology is a Virginia state-chartered magnet school located in Alexandria, Virginia. It is a regional high school
operated by Fairfax
County Public Schools (FCPS). As a publicly funded and
administered high school with selective admissions, TJHSST is often compared
with notable public magnet schools. TJHSST is one of 18 Virginia Governor's
Schools, and a founding member of the National Consortium for Specialized Secondary Schools of
Mathematics, Science and Technology. U.S. News
& World Report ranked the school the best public high
school in the nation in 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011. The project consisted of multiple
additions to the existing school structure totaling more than 64,000 square
feet. Additional asphalt parking areas, widening of existing access roads, a
bio-retention facility and the relocation of recreational facilities were
also included as part of the school improvements. |
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Project Highlights |
GC&T provided a full array of
services for the project including: (i) Subsurface exploration that
included ten test borings for the building additions and bio‑retention
facility. Test pits were also
performed to measure the dimensions of the existing footings. Numerous asphalt cores of the existing
asphalt surfaces were performed across the school site to evaluate the
condition of the existing pavement; (ii) Geotechnical
recommendations for the handling of high plasticity soils, existing man‑placed fill, earthwork specifications including
suitable structural fill material specifications and compaction testing
requirements, shallow foundation bearing capacity, seismic classification,
slab-on-grade, asphalt paved areas and the bio‑retention
facility. |
