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Staley High School
LEED® Silver
Architect
Hollis + Miller Architects
8205 W. 108th Terrace, #200, Overland Park, KS 66210
www.hollisandmiller.com
General Description
Location: Kansas City, Missouri
Date Bid: Apr 2006
Construction Period: May 2006 to May 2008
Total Square Feet: 325,376 Site: 80 acres.
Number of Buildings: One.
Building Size: First floor, 167,471; second floor, 157,905;
total, 325,376 square feet.
Building Height: First floor, 14’; second floor, 15’4”; total,
29’4”.
Basic Construction Type: Structural Steel/IIB.
Foundation: Cast-in-place. Exterior Walls: CMU, brick,
curtainwall. Roof: Membrane. Floors: Concrete. Interior
Walls: CMU, metal stud drywall.
Construction Team
Structural Engineer: Bob D. Campbell and Company - 4338
Belleview, Kansas City, MO 64111
Construction Manager: JE Dunn Construction Company - 901
Charlotte, Kansas City, MO 64106
Mechanical, Electrical & Technology Engineers: Henderson
Engineers, Inc. - 8325 Lenexa Drive, Lenexa, KS 66214
Cost Estimator: Construction Management Resources - 5201 Johnson
Drive, #201, Mission, KS 66205
Staley High School is the newest facility for the North Kansas City
School District and is also Missouri's first school to be awarded LEED®
Silver. The project team was led by Hollis + Miller Architects in
collaboration with a variety of team members, including: JE Dunn
Construction Company, construction manager; Henderson Engineers,
mechanical, electrical and technology engineers; and, the North Kansas
City School District, teachers, students and community. Hollis + Miller
Architects' team was led by Partner-in-Charge Kirk Horner, AIA and
Project Manager Larry Jordan, AIA.
This is the first new high school for the district in more than 35 years
and it needed to accommodate significant changes in educational
philosophies. The school board selected Hollis + Miller Architects to
lead the effort and the design of the new high school facility. There
were an array of challenging educational requirements: It needed to be a
facility that would be more than just a high school for teenagers - it
needed to be a continuing education center for adult education
accommodating satellite college courses; it needed to be a facility that
would be responsive to its environment and was designed as a sustainable
building; and flexible - able to expand as the student base continues to
grow.
Staley High School is sited on 80 acres - 48 contain "green space" with
three ponds. Strategic site planning allowed minimal disruption or
changes to the existing site features and topography. Except for one
pond, all of the wetland areas were retained. A new larger pond was
added. All of these features are planned as active functions with the
high school's educational spaces, including: biology and environmental
labs, walking/running/cross country trails and natural storm water
filtration features. The building and paving components were carefully
planned to maximize the percentage of undisturbed open space on the site
and to retain the original drainage patterns.
Initially, the building has a 1,500-student capacity with the potential
to be expanded in the future to 2,000. The facility includes a 750-seat
auditorium, a 300-seat flex-theatre, a gymnasium capable of hosting four
simultaneous basketball games and a 70,000 square foot great hall. The
great hall is the unifying space for the entire facility and features a
dynamically-shaped two-story curvelinear space that stretches from one
end of the building to the other. Virtually all students and staff use
this space several times daily, passing through between classes,
breaking for lunch or hanging out before and after school. It's
everyone's space.
The school opened in August 2008 and was immediately awarded LEED®
Silver status. Through early discussions with the school board, the
concept of a sustainable facility quickly became one of the fundamental
goals of the project. The preparation and planning for LEED®
certification involved the entire building team and all phases of
design. In addition to involvement with the building and site design,
decisions for sustainability also included construction sequences and
methods as well as the development of the school's curriculum and
educational programming. Sustainable design concepts are employed
throughout the building. The most obvious direction was the effort to
bring sunlight into the building. Shaded windows and curtainwalls are
used throughout the exterior walls. Materials used in the building were
selected for their recycled content, VOC content and the distance from
the site that they were manufactured. Undoubtedly, the most energy
efficient feature of the facility is the geo-thermal loop system that
provides tempered water for a hydronic heating and cooling system. This
system is calculated to use 42 percent less energy than a conventional
system.
One of the significant results of the partnership led to the district's
decision concerning green concepts. In the process of determining costs
and expenses over the lifetime of the building, the district determined
that the costs will provide a payback to the community and district in
less than ten years. The district now embraces sustainability concepts
district-wide. The issue of sustainable practices is now even a part of
each high school's required curriculum. The project was completed
on-time and was approximately two percent under budget.
Manufacturers
DIV. 7: Membrane: GAF.
DIV. 8: Window, Curtainwall, Entrances & Storefronts: YKK
America.
DIV. 9: Flooring: Everlast, Desco, Armstrong, Mannington,
Milliken.
DIV. 14: Elevator: ThyssenKrupp.
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