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Bigger, Better New School:
Marysville Arts and Technology Moves Into New Campus By Eric Stevick
Herald writer
MARYSVILLE -- Ryan Shay was more than ready for the new Marysville Arts &
Technology High School campus to open Monday.
At the old campus, he had
spent more than three years in tight quarters in a leased building shared with
an aerospace manufacturing company.
"When I walked in, I almost cried,"
said Shay, 18, a senior. "It was so beautiful. It looks like a school and that
is really something special."
Everything looked new and smelled
new.
Distracting noises that carried in the old building seem muffled in
the new one.
With the move, space has been expanded from 21,000 to 39,000
square feet.
"I guess I feel like we are finally home," Shay said. And an
unusual home it is.
The custom-designed school was built in sections in
a factory. The more than 120 pieces were joined together, somewhat similarly to
the way a Boeing 787 is assembled.
The two-tone green building, which
stretches longer than a football field, was built at the 57-acre Whitley
Evergreen Inc. grounds at Smokey Point. The pieces were trucked along roads
paralleling I-5 to the Tulalip Indian Reservation, where the building was
reassembled by crane.
Inside are enough single-story classrooms for 400
students and several common areas with 28-foot high ceilings and glass to bring
in natural light.
Arts & Technology is the first of three small
schools that will open on the site just south of Quil Ceda Elementary School in
what will be called the Marysville Secondary Campus.
Original article can be found here.
Whitley-Evergreen completed this innovative project along with
Williams-Scotsman. The building was produced in sections at
Whitley-Evergreens modern construction facility. Williams-Scotsman, a
national leader in the distribution of modular space, then transported
the sections to the site where the foundation had already been prepared
(this "concurrent construction" saved a significant amount of time on
the project). Under the watchful eyes of professional project managers
and third-party inspection agencies the building was assembled and
finished. Together, Whitley-Evergreen (Whitley Manufacturing) and
Williams-Scotsman were able to complete a custom, modern building with
architectural appeal on a shortened timeline and a controlled budget.
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