Glenbard District 87 approves $2M in facility upgrades

The Glenbard Township High School District 87 Board of Education has voted to approve improvement projects at the high schools not to exceed $2.3 million.

The board voted at its Feb. 23 meeting on the work and to have Legat Architects and Pekron Consulting prepare design drawings and bid specifications for it. The improvements are scheduled to take place during summer break.

The work being done is mostly annual preventative maintenance as identified through the master facility plan and annual building needs, according to board documents.

The board set a limit of $2.3 million on the project, estimating its total at $2.2 million.

The work at Glenbard South High School is anticipted to cost $81,587. Crews will replace four interior and exterior steel doors and hardware, replace vinyl composite tiles in four corridors and install vinyl composite tile flooring in two classrooms.

At Glenbard West High School, a changing room with a sink will be constructed in a special education classroom. This is estimated to cost $25,000.

Total work at Glenbard North High School will be a little more than $1 million. This is where the most work will be done. Crews will replace asphalt paving and curbs in the west parking lot, replace window and door frames on a stair tower, replace fire-rated metal doors on stair towers, renovate a pair of student toilet rooms, replace existing campus signs with an LED message sign and install new vinyl floors in the dance studio.

Glenbard East High School will have an acoustical baffle replaced on the Biester Auditorium stage. That is expected to cost $88,000.

The project also includes $455,072 of work to be performed at all schools. That work includes improving security lighting; refinishing wooden sports floors; inspecting and replacing fire alarms, fire doors, sprinkler systems and fire extinguishers; inspecting and repairing basketball backstops and divider curtains; inspecting and repairing wooden and aluminum grandstands and improving kitchen equipment.

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