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Blog: AHS Renovation-Only Option Ruled Out

April 30, 2018

The AHS Building Committee has determined that renovating the existing AHS facility – without constructing any additions – is not suitable for the following reasons

  • Inability to accommodate enrollment growth
  • Retrofitting the current program into the existing facility would result in an extremely inefficient layout without desired adjacencies
  • Due to construction design, there would be severe limitations in some areas
  • There would not be space for numerous existing programs tied to AHS, as well as non-AHS offices

Read more in our Ponderings blog post.

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