Schools
Construction Starts at Terra Centre Elementary School
The school is currently undergoing planned renovations.
Construction crews have started working on planned renovations over at Terra Centre Elementary School in Burke.
The school, which is currently ranked fifth in the Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) renovation queue, is included in the FCPS Capital Improvement Plan for construction planned for FY 2014-2018.
The Terra Centre project includes “additions totaling 20,500 square feet and renovations of the existing 68,500 square foot occupied school,” according to the Henley Construction company’s website, the company hired to complete the renovations.
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That is similar to the information Sunny Sarna, a project engineer in the Fairfax County Public Schools' office of Design and Construction Services, told Burke residents at a community meeting in 2011.
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The additional 20,000 square feet will “include the addition of a library to the front of the school, a mechanical room and an administration area,” according to Sarna.
The Henley website also estimates the renovations will be complete by the summer of 2015.
Burke Patch will have a follow up story on the renovations next month.
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