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The new Sherwood High School is being built on a broad, 73-acre property. The site is so big that Sean Walker, a project manager for general contractor Skanska USA Building, joked that he once couldn’t spot the massive hydraulic crane being used to raise concrete tilt panels into place for the school’s new gymnasium.

鈥淗ow many times do you lose complete sight of a crane like that on a job site?鈥� he said with a laugh.

The new high school is the crown jewel of the Sherwood School District’s $247.5 million capital bond measure approved by voters in 2016. Designed to serve up to 2,400 students, the 353,000-square-foot building will feature a towering classroom wing.

Ground was broken this past summer, with excavation and site work giving way to foundation pours and now installation of four stories of structural steel for classrooms. The gymnasium also is taking shape.

鈥淲e started construction in July, and since then obviously we’ve had a lot of work going on 鈥� a lot of craft out here,鈥� said Trevor Wyckoff, a project executive with Skanska USA Building. 鈥淩ight now we are busy with a lot of work, erecting the steel classroom wing that’s up there right now, and also we just finished erecting the concrete tilts for the gymnasium. So right now the project is on schedule and on budget.鈥�

The new school is scheduled for completion in summer 2020; it’s intended to address overcrowding at the existing high school, which will be converted to a middle school. The full estimated cost of the high school project is $147 million.

Wyckoff and BRIC Architecture associate Ed Herrera both noted that despite ongoing budget pressures related to a shortage of skilled labor and increased costs of materials, the scope and programming have remained consistent. This includes a state-of-the-art performance auditorium and a 2,885-seat outdoor sports stadium. Over 800 vehicle parking spaces and 260 bike parking spaces will be created.

The building is designed as a series of centrally located interior and exterior spaces to support student gathering and social interaction, Herrera said.

鈥淐onceptually it’s a neighborhood of learning environments,鈥� he said. 鈥淚t all kind of meets at a common area. And we have this wing that points toward Mount Hood and there’s a vantage point on the fourth floor where we can have a clear view within an atrium and stairway.鈥�

Both Herrera and Wyckoff noted the construction manager-general contractor delivery method, increasingly finding favor in the public sector, has led to heightened collaboration between project team members.

鈥淚’ve done a lot of school projects,鈥� said Wyckoff, who managed the renovation of Franklin High School for Portland Public Schools. 鈥淎nd this is a large school project that actually, for me to go see this, it’s pretty cool and remarkable out here with how fast it’s going and how well the overall team is really working together. The community is really starting to see what’s going on just over the last five weeks.鈥�

Sherwood High School

Owner: Sherwood School District

Construction manager-general contractor: Skanska USA Building

Architect: BRIC Architecture

Owner’s representative: Cornerstone Management Group

Planner: Harper Houf Peterson Righellis Inc.

Engineer: KPFF Consulting Engineers

Landscape architect: Walker Macy

Traffic engineer: DKS Associates