Hollister School District
Hollister, California
This project was a 900-student transitional kindergarten (TK) through Grade 8 school constructed on a 12-acre site. The school encompassed approximately 36 classrooms in several buildings, a gymnasium, an administration building, and a media building. Site improvements included playing fields, parking lots, driveways, sidewalks, and underground utilities. The school was constructed on a sloping site, necessitating multi-level construction. The buildings were constructed on the upper tier of the site; a lunch shelter kiosk and paved play area occupied the second (middle) tier, and the lowermost tier became the site of grass playfields and a ballfield.
During the design phase of the project, Earth Systems provided a geotechnical engineering report and geologic hazards study. During construction, Earth Systems’ services included geotechnical observation and testing during grading, foundation excavation observation, review of concrete mix designs, concrete batch plant inspection, material identification and tagging of reinforcing steel, conformance testing of reinforcing steel, sampling and testing of structural concrete, compression testing of concrete samples, review of welding procedure submittals, special inspection of shop and field welding, and special inspection/testing of high strength bolting and post-installed anchors.
