Webster Central School District Expansion

Cost: $47.9 million

Development Team

Owner: Webster Central School District, Webster, N.Y.
Construction Manager: Christa Construction Corp., Victor, N.Y.

The Webster Central School District, located 8 miles outside of Rochester, N.Y., completed a major expansion and upgrade of its facilities in 2002.

In October 1998, the school district launched a $47.9 million capital expansion project with Chirsta Construction Corp., based in nearby Victor, N.Y., as construction manager.

Three and half years later, the district had a new 174,000-sq.-ft. intermediate school, the Wilink Middle School at 900 Publisher Parkway. It came with new baseball and soccer fields, a 10,000-sq.-ft. field house and a 15,000-sq.-ft. school bus garage nearby.

In addition, the Webster Thomas High School at 800 Five Mile Road had been renovated and expanded by 7,000 sq. ft., and the Webster Schroeder High School, 875 Ridge Road, had a new 50-meter Olympic size pool with a movable bulkhead, a 3-meter diving board, new locker rooms and renovated athletic fields.

The exterior of the new Wilink Middle School is all masonry and the interior is 60 percent masonry and 40 percent drywall. "The masonry made it very difficult to work in the winter," said Bob Encao, senior vice president with Christa who served as project manager for the Webster school constructions and renovations. "Winters, as you know, are cold up here. But we kept going."