Gilbane Building Co. has been selected to provide Construction Management at Risk Services for the new $37 million Sherwood Middle School.

The 130,000 s/f project, designed by Lamoureux Pagano Associates Architects, will house 900 fifth and sixth grade students. The new middle school will be built on an existing two-middle school building campus and will include general classrooms, common rooms, a cafetorium, art suite, music suite, physical education space, administration, occupational therapy/physical therapy, choral/drama room, nurses suite, seminar/work room and a media center. The school will be developed with a "neighborhood" concept in mind by creating five clusters of six to eight general classrooms supported by one special education resource room and one multipurpose common room for team projects. The ultimate goal is to create an intimate yet flexible learning environment.
"Creating effective learning environments that continually engage students is crucial to the education and growth of our youth. In the last five years, Gilbane has built over $4.7 billion in K-12 facilities. We are excited about the opportunity to bring Shrewsbury our wealth of knowledge from lessons learned on recently built facilities as well as our extensive experience in creating high performance buildings that are healthy for the end user," said Ryan Hutchins, vice president & Mass. district manager.