Nether Providence Elementary School
The Wallingford Swarthmore School District currently has one major renovation and expansion project underway at Wallingford Elementary School, but the design team behind the project is already looking ahead to an overhaul of another district facility.
Architect Kevin Godshall, a partner in Godshall Kane Architects LLC, of Ambler, presented the Wallingford-Swarthmore School Board with his firm’s vision for the future of Nether Providence Elementary School at its July meeting.
The proposal calls for tearing down a 1939 wing at the Nether Providence Elementary School located on Moore Road, retaining sections that came later and constructing an addition at the rear. The addition would sit on part of the current parking lot, and would reduce the number of parking spots from 150 to 76.
A major goal of the project would be to upgrade classrooms to about 800 square feet to accommodate modern day educational standards, and would also entail keeping separate bus and parent drop-off areas, leaving the playing fields intact, adding a service road on the north side of the building, and incorporating renewable energy features, such as geothermal heating and cooling.
Reynolds Construction Co., who has served as the district’s contractor for the Wallingford Elementary and Strath Haven Middle School projects, estimated the Nether Providence Elementary work would cost about $16.5 million, $5.8 million for the school addition, $5.7 million for renovation work, and $3.6 million of other costs.
A tentative schedule calls for work to commence in the summer 2013.
