Capital Safety & Security Project Update

Window replacements starting this week at PJHS

POSTED NOVEMBER 1, 2010
The first phase of the Port Jervis School District window replacement project is beginning this week at the High School. Part of the $14.6 million Capital Safety and Security Project approved by voters last February, the project will replace the 1960-era single-pane windows at the Route 209 Complex and Hamilton Bicentennial Elementary School with shatterproof, tempered glass units.

During this phase of the project, the High School hallway windows will be replaced. Work is scheduled to began Nov. 2 in the section of the hallway that runs from the building entrance to the auditorium. The windows will be removed in the evening, when the building is closed, since the caulking contains low amounts of non-friable (non-airborne) asbestos.

To comply with Department of Labor asbestos abatement requirements, a temporary air-tight station has been set up in the far section of the courtyard near the High School entrance to provide abatement contractors with a secure area to change and store equipment.

The other phase of the window replacement project – the installation of the new classroom windows at Bicentennial Elementary School – is scheduled to begin later this month. The window units will be replaced one classroom at a time. All of new units will include a New York State Education Department approved emergency classroom exit.

The entire projected is expected to be completed this summer following the installation of new two-story curtain wall window units at the High School and Anna S. Kuhl Elementary School. The 24,000 square-feet of window walls and over 6,000 square-feet of double-pane window units being installed in the three schools are expected to reduce district utility costs by approximately $100,000 a year. Additional savings will result from the new heat/ventilation units that will be installed along with many of the windows units.