16 | ACTON-BOXBOROUGH REGIONAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
ACTON-BOXBOROUGH THE BOARDWALK CAMPUS For the Douglas, Gates and the C. Huebner Early Childhood Program
The Acton-Boxborough Regional School District is very pleased to inform the public that the Douglas/Gates/CHECP School Building Project has been officially named the Boardwalk Campus Building. The project continues to move forward and is currently on budget and on schedule for an August opening. Approximately 24 months ago the District broke ground on the project with our partners Consigli Construction. The first piece of steel went vertical in October 2020 and here in the summer of 2022 we are in the process of moving in new furniture, technology, and our teaching materials from the old Douglas, Gates, and CHECP programs. It has been extremely fast-paced and we are thrilled with where we are to date. The District is very excited about the educational program we will be able to deliver in this new state-of-the-art-facility. The building is designed to perform as a triple net zero facility : net zero waste, net zero water, and net zero energy. This fully electrified building will have no carbon footprint and will perform very highly in metrics related to indoor air quality, energy use intensity, and ambient decibel measurements to suppress background noise. All of these factors should have positive correlations to improved student experiences. Related to the net zero energy aspect of the project, the School Committee authorized the signing of an agreement between the ABRSD and Nexamp. This agreement represents 30 years of energy independence for the Boardwalk campus. It ensures that Nexamp will own and operate rooftop solar panels as well as parking canopy solar in excess of over 1.6 million KwH of solar annually.
ABRSD will be purchasing the energy produced by the system at a much lower rate than they would from the electrical grid or utility company, resulting in savings to the District over this time. Additionally, this system comes with 2 megawatts of battery storage that will support the facility and generate revenue for the District. Despite our plans to move in this summer, the project as a whole will not be com- plete until the following summer. Over the next school year the construction team will complete the demolition of the old Douglas and Gates school buildings. Where the former Gates building currently sits will be the new primary parking lot for the Boardwalk school building. Where the former Douglas school sits will be a replacement youth softball field and overflow parking for the new school building. We will also be rehabilitating the Paul Cartwright Elm Street basketball courts . We appreciate the larger community’s patience as we continue to operate the school amidst this very active construction site over the next year. We expect that in the early fall of 2023 this project will be substantially completed and will serve as a flagship campus for our Acton and Boxborough residents. Thank you to the citizens of Acton and Boxborough for their continued support, the Massachusetts School Building Authority, and the members of the School Building Committee for the countless hours they have contributed to making this a successful school building project. We invite all members of the Acton and Boxborough communities to join us on October 15 at 10:00am for the Boardwalk Campus’ grand opening ceremony, and to tour this wonderful and exciting new addition to our school district.
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