AWARDS

  • 2024 AGC Best Buildings - Outstanding Speciality Work

  • 2023 ABC New Mexico - Excellence in Construction (Eagle Award): Schools

TEAM

  • Contractor: TCI

  • Structural Engineer: Heatly Engineering

  • Civil Engineer: High Mesa Consulting Group

  • Mechanical & Electrical Engineer: Testudo Engineering

  • Photographer: mattophoto

PROJECT SIZE

  • New building addition 55,000 sq. ft.

APS Jackson Middle School

Albuquerque, NM

The new classroom block at Jackson Middle school is a two-story consisting of 28 classrooms. Some classrooms are specialty teaching rooms, such as Fine Arts, Steam Lab, and Physical Therapy. To bring color into the building, we utilized different colors as a means of wayfinding within the 55,000 SF building. Classroom alcove entrances are all different colors that help break the monotony of a blank hallway. In the middle of the building is a two-story high tile mosaic of Jackson’s mascot - the Jaguar.

Jackson is a LEED Silver certified building. One design aspect to meet this certification was to design a large brise-soleil along the westside of the classroom block to shade from the harsh desert sun.

The project also included site work, widening the bus lane, and demolition of the existing administration building.