Texas Facilities Commission
- government
- Austin, Texas
Construction Type
Master plan
Project Delivery Method
Study-Report-Planning
Project Components
- Stakeholder engagement, OPC development, and value-based phase sequencing, peer institution benchmarking, institutional GIS analysis, and predictive analytical review of future enrollment and facility needs
- Assistance in establishing four phases of work for additions, renovations, and new construction to the campus
- Design scope development of the Phase I legislative appropriations request
Following completion by Parkhill of a prior fast-paced facilities and infrastructure assessment to the 533,000 GSF historic Texas School for the Deaf Campus (TSD) in Austin, Parkhill was once again selected by the Texas Facilities Commission (TFC) to work with TSD in developing a multi-phase master plan for the TSD campus over the next decade. Parkhill team members combined their strengths and resources in traditional master planning exercises such as stakeholder engagement, OPC development, and value-based phase sequencing with added internal resources such as peer institution benchmarking institutional GIS analysis, and predictive analytical review of future enrollment and facility needs. The master plan was submitted to the Texas Legislative Budget Board.
Prior TSD campus development between 1991 and 2007 had established much of the planning dynamic for the buildings and open space of the campus. Rather, what this master plan focused on was how to address an anticipated enrollment growth from approximately 500 students to 700 over the next decade, as well as how to use the mechanism of strategic space planning to reposition and reconfigure multiple academic and administrative departments of the school into a more logical placement on campus. Parkhill team members interviewed or held engagement charrettes with two dozen departments and external stakeholder groups, to gain engaged and informed consent from all parties on a general phasing plan for the future development of the campus. This exercise demonstrated Parkhill’s commitment to immersing themselves in the particular needs of the project and user, by engaging both TSD and the “Think Deaf Workshop” at Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C., in learning the specific spatial, interactive, and pedagogical needs of deaf students of various ages.
Parkhill also worked with TSD and TFC in establishing four phases of work totaling over $101 million in additions, renovations, and new construction to the campus, and at TFC’s request proceeded with initial schematic design scope development of Phase I legislative appropriations request for $44 million in work. Parkhill was selected for an A/E services contract with the Texas Facilities Commission for three new projects at the Texas School for the Deaf. These projects include a multi-building renovation for deferred maintenance improvements, CTE expansion for a culinary arts center, and improving campus circulation including updating the campus entrance at South Congress Avenue.
Awards
2017 Texas Engineering Excellence Award Surveying and Mapping Gold Medal Winner – American Council of Engineering Companies of Texas
2017 American Council of Engineering Companies Engineering Excellence Awards – “National Recognition”
Project Leadership
- Jared Higgins, PE
- Monte Hunter, AIA
- Jamie Zavodny, AIA
- Sam Wyatt, RPLS
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