Zero Discharge Stormwater System Layout, DesignGroup & EMH&T

In this month’s edition of The Urban Review, a stormwater and erosion control newsletter put together by the Franklin Soil and Water Conservation District (FSWCD), the Alum Crest/Clearbrook school’s innovative stormwater design has been featured in an article.  To read the article, please visit “Innovative Stormwater Design at New School”, and proceed to page 3. Read More …

Exterior Rendering of the Alum Crest/Clearbrook 6-12 School

DesignGroup is very pleased to announce that the Alum Crest/Clearbrook School was featured in April’s School Construction News!

The article gives a wonderful overview of the Alum Crest/Clearbrook project; providing information on Emotionally Disturbed Students, how we designed the building especially for them, and touching upon the many green elements to the site and building design.

DesignGroup is very pleased to share this article with our:

• Client:  Columbus City Schools
• Consultants on the project team:  MSI | KKG, Shelley Metz Baumann Hawk, EMH&T, Dynamix Engineering, and Joby Smith & Associates
• and the Construction Manager with the District:  Smoot Elford Resource

We hope that you enjoy learning more about this exciting school project!

Learn more about the Alum Crest/Clearbrook project by reading our other articles below:

Orlando, FL isn’t just the land of Mickey Mouse!
It’s Always Sunny in . . .
Innovative Stormwater Design – Infiltration Test Pits + Alum Crest/Clearbrook Site
Public Interest Increases for the Alum Crest Clearbrook 6-12 School Project

Geothermal Well Fields

It’s also where DesignGroup & Columbus City Schools presented the Alum Crest/Clearbrook School at the School & College Building Expo!

The School & College Building Expo is a “Conference for the People Who Design and Build Great Educational Facilities.”  DesignGroup and CCS not only wanted to attend the conference, but we were also selected to present at it as well.

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3D model of DesignGroup's Alum Crest / Clearbrook 6-12 project

. . . Columbus!  Bet you thought I was going to say Philadelphia, but this blog post is about a school in Columbus, Ohio and the sun shines here too!  Planning early on in your project to accommodate future solar array systems is a smart thing to do for many reasons and here is one way we went through the process. Read More …

Single Ring Infiltration Testing at the Alum Crest/Clearbrook School Site

Last Thursday (7/28) and Friday (7/29), infiltration pit testing was performed by Terracon/HC Nutting at the Alum Crest/Clearbrook 6-12 School Site.  Read More …