DESSIE EVANS ELEMENTARY

NAC ARCHITECTS

Dessie Evans Elementary was a new elementary for the SouthHill community of  the Puyallup School District. The elementary school is one of the biggest elementary schools in the region and will be home to 1000 elementary school students. 

Our design concept was spearheaded by Teresa Alvarado That imagined a meandering path in the forest with 4 nodes that were used for vertical circulation, mechanical distribution, reading nooks, and path to exterior classrooms. 

Some of the challenges of this school included the district’s budgetary constraints.  We were forced to design half the school with steel construction and half of it with wood framing.  We needed to provide unique details and general direction in each building type that met the fire rating requirements of building type.  

BUILDING TYPE: BUILDING 1,2,3 (VB)

Team

• Philip Riedel (Principal in Charge)

• Teresa Alvarado (Associate Principal Design)

• Amy Jain (Project Architect)

• Arnulfo Ramirez (Arch Designer/Model Manager)

• Julia Martinelli  (Intern)

• Emily Spillar (Interior Designer)

• David Schaffer (Building Technology Consultant)

Responsibilities

• Part of a 5 person design development team to create constructibility plan for design concept

• Create a 30% fenestration area studies for code review and produce reports for code studies

• Lead exterior envelope construction detailing and coordination with Storefront Consultant 

• Schedule and coordinate Engineer bi-weekly meetings

• Produce collision item reports for model review meetings

• Establish shared coordinate revit model exports

• Set up clash detection studies and meetings

• Produce window schedules and develop revit families

• Develop visibility graphics to study coordination models

• Lead construction detail coordination for construction document phase

• Help organize and load construction documents for bidding process.

• Maintain a continuous line of communication with external engineering teams

• Organize construction forms and documentation for site construction meetings

• Attend weekly Owner, Architectural and Contractor meetings

• Respond to RFI, request for information questions from contractor

• Update revit model with as-built construction live updates

• Coordinate architectural solutions with contractor on exterior