SPOTLIGHT ON SUCCESS Aerial view of Swinerton’s expansion project at James Campbell High School.
School Expansion Swinerton completes $34M interconnected five-building expansion at James Campbell High School BY DAVID PUTNAM
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or years, James Campbell High School in Ewa Beach has dealt with an overcrowded campus. To ease congestion at Hawaii’s largest high school, Swinerton recently completed the construction of five interconnecting structures. The new jaw-dropping features at Campbell HS include space dedicated to Hawaiian studies, with floor-toceiling mirrors and foldable Nanawall 34 | BUILDING INDUSTRY HAWAII | NOVEMBER 2020
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doors opening up to an outdoor performance space with synthetic turf. Another standout addition is the stateof-the-art culinary space with professional-grade kitchen equipment. The five structures at Campbell HS, which has more than 3,000 students in grades 9-12, are interconnected by pedestrian walkways. Completing the $34 million expansion for the state Department of
Education was no easy feat when work began in 2018 and throughout the COVID-19 pandemic as Hawaii public schools closed and then reopened. Subburaman Subburaman Venkataraman Venkataraman, Swinerton’s project executive, says a
