The 40-year old academic school, set in a suburban setting, draws students from all over the City of Grande Prairie.  Bursting at the seams due to enrollment pressures, the school board approved an addition and modernization to this 40-year-old academic school in 2004. Upon award of the project, we realized that our commission encompassed a diversity of other criteria, ranging from accommodation of allergies at a microscopic scale through to the alleviation of traffic congestion at the urban scale.

A series of workshops was held for students, parents, teachers, community residents and planning officials in order to asses the full extent of issues affecting this project.  As the workshops progressed, the design team interpreted suggestions from all sources.  The end result is a school that has received enthusiastic buy-in from many, many participants, re-establishing this school’s pre-eminent position in the community.

“I would like to commend your organization for a PHENOMENAL job of facilitating parental input at the school. The meeting served several purposes from educating to allowing parents to feel a part of the modernization process. Your team did a great job of allowing the creative process to freely roll with the understanding that ideas generated eventually have to submit to a reality processor.”  - Parent, St. Gerard Catholic School