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This summer will see Portland Public Schools’ biggest construction season to date, spurred by the $482 million passed by voters in 2012.

During the summer of 2013, rehabilitative construction work was completed on six schools, and in 2014 major work was done on more 12 schools. But this summer’s work calls for the biggest effort yet: construction work at 29 schools, including major restoration and new buildings at Franklin and Roosevelt high schools.

Groundbreaking for construction at Roosevelt High will be at 10 a.m., May 2, while groundbreaking for work at Franklin High will be May 16 at noon.

In addition to the renovations at Roosevelt and Franklin, nine other Portland schools are in line for roof repair or replacement, seismic upgrades and American Disabilities Act improvements such as installing elevators at Ainsworth and Woodlawn schools, both K-12 schools. Another 18 schools will have work done to upgrade to sixth and eighth grade science classrooms, some also with ADA work.

The school district plans to spend about $35 million from June through August, said David Mayne, bond spokesman for the district. All the work so far has been on budget and on time, he said.

鈥淥ur long-range plan is to modernize all of our schools,鈥� Mayne said. 鈥淢ost were built before World War II, and they didn’t think about seismic or access back then in the way we do.鈥�

The bond has a built-in annual audit, he said, which is near completion for this year and will be available in early summer. The audit report will be turned over to the Portland School Board next week, he said.

鈥淚’m confident we’re doing great, but if there are any alarm signals, they will let us know,鈥� he said.

The bond measure is also overseen by the Bond Accountability Committee, he said, comprised of volunteer experts who recently completed a quarterly review that will be presented at a future school board meeting.

Historic update for Franklin

Franklin High was built in 1915, Mayne said, and while the general fa莽ade and feel of the historic building will be preserved, it will be gutted and repurposed, and new buildings will be added to the campus, including the new Center for the Arts at the intersection of Southeast Woodward Street and Southeast 52^nd Avenue.

Franklin’s historic auditorium will be preserved, but will be converted to a two-story Media Center and the entrance to the original main building will be transformed to a two-story entry and lobby space. The school’s track and field will be realigned 90 degrees to make room for a new athletic gym and educational facility and new classroom spaces will be created for science, technology, engineering and math education, as well as Career Pathways programs that include culinary arts, the law and the Constitution, health science and biomedical, and industrial arts.

Project design for Franklin High is by the DOWA-IBI Group and SERA Architects, and the Skanska is prime contractor. The total budget for Franklin’s reconstruction is $106 million, with guaranteed maximum pricing of $81.8 million for the construction phase. Plans call for completion of the renovations at Franklin by all 2017, when classes will resume. During construction, Franklin students will attend Marshall High, which was closed in 2011 but has since been upgraded with money from the bond. Work at Franklin will begin after classes end in mid-June.

Roosevelt work under way

Prep work already has started at Roosevelt High, said school district spokeswoman Christine Miles. Several classrooms and the auditorium have been vacated, math classes are currently being held in the cafeteria, and a fence has been built close to the baseball field for a construction staging area. A heated tent will also be added at the site for physical education classes.

Bassetti Architects is in charge of design for the Roosevelt renovations and the general contractor is Lease Crutcher Lewis.

Students will remain at Roosevelt while the renovation is in progress, but with several changes to accommodate construction.

鈥淭hey will have one or two portable buildings in front of the school, and when the kids return (in the fall) the school will look very different,鈥� Miles said.

Work on Roosevelt High is set for completion in December 2017 and will be done in phases. Work this year includes demolition of the gym, music building and boiler room and followed by construction of a new gym, a new classroom wing, a new auditorium and student commons area cafeteria. The old auditorium will be made into a new media center. All are set to open in the fall of 2016.

The next construction phase at Roosevelt, which was built in 1921, is set to start in summer 2016 with renovation of the original buildings and construction of the second half of the student commons area. Some buildings will be demolished next summer and final site work and landscaping will be finished up in the fall of 2017, when all the modernized buildings will be open to students.

The total budget for reconstruction of Roosevelt High, which is smaller than Franklin, is $96 million with a guaranteed maximum pricing of $69.3 million during the construction phase.

The construction bond, which was approved by a two-thirds majority, was based on a citizen-developed and prioritized plan, according to the school district. In addition to Franklin and Roosevelt high schools, Grant High will also go through a full modernization with master planning set for this fall. Work at Grant will begin in summer 2017 and will be complete in time for students to return to their campus in fall 2019. Grant students will also attend school at the Marshall High campus during the construction of their new school.

Citizens in the Grant community are invited to serve in a design advisory committee, Mayne said, to help with the master planning process to modernize the school. Anyone interested can sign up .

To 鈥渇ully modernize鈥� a school rather than replace it depends on the age of the building, its historical significance, condition, deficiencies, size and needs, according to the bond website at http://www.pps.k12.or.us/bond.

鈥淎 full modernization addresses all of the deficient systems and significantly rehabilitates a school,鈥� the site states. Improvements would ensure an efficient building system that is fully accessible and meets all codes.

The bond issue will also partly fund construction of a new Faubion School for prekindergarten through eighth grade that will include Concordia University’s School of Education. The PPS bond is funding $29 million for the new school. Concordia will provide land, resources and funding (from $7.5 million to $15.5 million) for the new facility that will also provide an early childhood education center, a health and wellness center and other services for the community.

The Faubion project is currently in the design phase and should be completely built by the fall of 2017. During construction, Faubion students will attend the Tubman School, starting in the fall of 2015. Faubion’s master plan was created in partnership with Boora Architects, PPS, Concordia University, Faubion staff, families, students and community members.

The school district’s long range plans for the health of its buildings will focus on three more high schools in the near future, Mayne said.

鈥淪tarting this fall we’re going to master plan three more high schools 鈥� Benson, Lincoln and Madison — with future construction of those high schools contingent on passage of a future bond measure,鈥� he said. 鈥淲e determined those three would be the next to be rebuilt.