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MORE SUMMER IMPROVEMENTS SCHEDULED for 2012

 

TAKE A LOOK AT all the REVITALIZING Improvements at RHS!

A finished summer project! - September, 2011

It's been an incredible summer at Roncalli High School! So many things to be thankful for!! Please take a look at all the improvements that were made in only three short months! Now class is in session, and the classrooms are painted and carpeted, new ceiling and lighting is found throughout the building (along with newly installed air and heat). The facility has new bathrooms for both students and faculty. The Central/Business Office has been renovated and expanded and includes a kitchenette, workroom and conference room. The teacher's lounge next to the cafeteria has been remodeled and the gym entrance is now carpeted! Stop by and see all the improvements for yourself!! Thanks to everyone who donated to the campaign so far and to all of the supporters and volunteers who worked hard painting, moving and cleaning the school so that we could start the 2011-2012 school year right on schedule!


 

Final Countdown - August 10, 2011

Volunteers have helped to clear out the school gym - the scheduled first day of school is just 15 days away!  New lights have been installed in the remodeled Central Office. New carpet continues to be installed in the senior high classrooms and the chapel has new carpet throughout. Sinks and stools have been installed in the senior high bathrooms! Interior work on the rooftop mechanical rooms is ongoing. What was formerly a window in the school's upper floor apartment is now an opening into the mechanical room.

Revitalizing Home Stretch - August 3, 2011

Our volunteers are incredible!! They are braving heat and humidity and giving up their summer nights and weekends all to ready the school! More classrooms and hallways have been painted and cleaned and new lights are being installed. New carpet has arrived and is being cut and shaped in the cafeteria - carpet installation has begun in junior high classrooms. Green and gold tile work is going up in the new boys and girls bathrooms. The lower level band and choir rooms are newly painted and the floors are waxed.

 

MORE REVITALIZING! - July 25, 2011

Volunteer painters are working to put up new coats of paint throughout the high school classrooms! Their work is complete in the cafetorium where new ceiling tiles, lighting and now new paint brightening up the existing space. Plumbing work continues in the junior high and senior high bathrooms and the Central Offices will have a new look this Fall! The offices have been expanded and will be painted soon!

REVITALIZING RONCALLI Construction work is on schedule! - July 13, 2011

The timeline for summer construction in on schedule as crews continue to work on replacing windows throughout the building. The cafetorium has new ceiling tiles and lighting brightening up the existing space. Work is also moving along on the mechanical rooms on top of the building. Concrete was poured for thew new boys and girls bathrooms as well!

 

REVITALIZING RONCALLI CONSTRUCTION - July 6, 2011

Work on the geothermal wells continue on the field northeast of the high school. Trenching pipes into the building has begun and the steel structure work for the geothermal mechanical rooms on the roof of the building continues. Fire protection sprinkler work has begun in the hallways and the cafetorium. New window installation has also started!

REVITALIZING RONCALLI CONSTRUCTION - June 28, 2011

Construction improvements underway include gridwork for ceiling tiles in the cafetorim. The Central Offices have been cleared and a wall between the offices and the adjacent room to the west have been opened up. The plumbing work for the new bathrooms in the senior wing (formerly the senior high religion rooms) continues to take place. Workers lower steel columns into the building to support mechanical rooms to be built on the roof.

REVITALIZING RONCALLI CONSTRUCTION - June 20, 2011

Our gym is currently housing all the office and classroom storage during the renovations. The exposed library ceiling now has new ductwork  as do some of the hallways. The steel for the new mechanical rooms to be built on top of the building arrive.

REVITALIZING RONCALLI CONSTRUCTION - June 8, 2011

  The process begins with demolition to both the Spanish room (which will soon be the site of new student bathrooms in the junior high wing) and the boiler room (which will soon house some mechanical storage). The existing student bathroom in the senior high wing has been demolished and will be converted into a classroom.

GROUNDBREAKING - May 6, 2011 

Ground is broken as a school year comes to a close.  Construction crews begin to dig geothermal wells on the east side of the practice football field and track.