NEW MURRAY MIDDLE SCHOOL
NEW MURRAY MIDDLE SCHOOL
Sierra Sands Unified School District
113 W. Felspar Avenue
Ridgecrest, CA 93555
PROJECT INFORMATION
Sierra Sands Unified School District, in joint venture with the Department of Defense and Department of Navy, issued Colombo Construction a contract to finalize construction on the new Murray Middle School. The Murray project, originally awarded to another CM Firm, was approximately 10% completed and behind schedule. Colombo Construction was asked to take over the project with less than nine months to complete construction before the start of school.
Construction completion on this 6-8 grade school campus project included standard classrooms as well as science classrooms, a media center, gymnasium, music and art building, library, multi-purpose building and administration building. The project incorporated 68,000 sf of permanent modular slab-on-grade buildings including a panelized gymnasium and multi-purpose building featuring anti-terrorism “blast force” design throughout.
Since the school site is located so close to the Naval Air Weapons Station in China Lake, CA, the campus needed to meet Anti-Terrorism Force Protection (ATFP) Standards. The unique structural design of the Murray campus was a groundbreaking achievement; the result of which pushes modular construction to the limits and is one of the first blast resistant modular campuses in California.