From the Ground Up: Summit Intermediate School

Owner/developer: Nixa Public Schools

General contractor: Crossland Construction Co. Inc. (Columbus, Kan.)

Architect: Sapp Design Associates Architects PC

Engineers: Mettemeyer Engineering LLC, structural; Malone Finkle Eckhardt & Collins Inc., mechanical, electrical and plumbing; Shaffer & Hines Inc., civil

Size: 77,000-square-feet

Estimated cost: $7.5 million

Lender: none

Estimated completion date: May 1, 2009

Project description: The school has 20 classrooms, which will seat an average of 25 to 28 fifth and sixth-grade students, and is expandable for another eight classrooms, said Jim Stufflebeam, vice president and senior project manager and designer at Sapp Design Associates. Its wood-floored gymnasium features a high-school size basketball court and is a little more than 8,000-square-feet. There is also a multipurpose room with platform, library, and special education, art, music and science room. Summit is built next door to High Pointe Elementary, so playgrounds, playing fields, as well as some parking and driveways are shared, Stufflebeam said.[[In-content Ad]]Springfield Business Journal brings you new projects each week. Send project info by e-mail to sbj@sbj.net or by fax to (417) 799-0603.