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Project Overview

Lake Highlands Junior High will become Lake Highlands Middle School in August 2024. The new three-story building will house up to 1,500 students.

Highlights

New Construction
K-12, Education
249,000 sf

Project Team

Owner – Richardson ISD

Architect – Perkins + Will

Contractor – Cadence McShane

Project Details

The Richardson ISD Lake Highlands Middle School is a 249,000 Sq. Ft., 3-story middle school that includes an ICC-500 rated community tornado shelter located in Dallas, TX. The project is a replacement for the existing Lake Highlands Junior High School that was originally built in the 1960s. The new facility is being referred to as a Middle School since it will now include 6th grade in addition to 7th and 8th grade at this facility once complete.

The facility will utilize a 4-pipe chilled and heating water system for the majority of the 3-story portion of the school and Roof-Top AC units for the majority of the athletic and other specialty areas. In keeping with the initiative in Richardson ISD to help promote STEAM learning, the facility will have a STEM lab centrally located on the first level of the facility which will include a mechanical room with full height windows to allow students to see the mechanical system serving the first floor of the facility and thus allow instructors to discuss these systems in their curriculum.

The project is a multi-year phased project that was made possible by the ability to design and build the facility in a largely unused portion of the field next to the school, which allows the new facility to be built while keeping the existing facility in use until the new facility is complete. The project required significant coordination of existing and new utilities to allow for the new facility to be constructed while the existing is occupied.

The Architect of Record is Perkins + Will and the General Contractor is Cadence McShane.

An artist rendering of the interior of Lake Highlands Middle School.

Mike Danielson (left) and Darrel Williams (right) meet with representatives from Richardson ISD for the Lake Highlands Middle School groundbreaking ceremony.

Artist rendering of the new Lake Highlands Middle School.

RWB attends the groundbreaking ceremony for Lake Highlands Middle School

Artist rendering of the new Lake Highlands Middle School.

Project Updates from RWB

September 13, 2022

RWB Team Celebrates the Groundbreaking of Lake Highlands Middle School

RWB team joined Cadence McShane Construction, Perkins & Will, and Richardson ISD for the groundbreaking of our newest project, Lake Highlands Middle School on Tuesday, September 6, 2022.