H. J. High recently completed Fire Station #1 for the City of Boynton Beach. The new station is designed to serve the growing community of Boynton Beach and meet the changing guidelines and standards for firefighter response and safety concerns.
With design partners, Architects Design Group, and developer, E2L Real Estate Solutions, our team finished the first part of the Boynton Beach Town Square development.
Construction continues on The City of Orlando Fire Station #9, affectionately known as “The Outpost.” Originally built in 1968, the station was demolished and the firefighters moved into a modular home. H. J. High Construction, along with Architects Design Group, have designed a state of the art station that will incorporate the latest technologies and safety advances. Construction is nearly complete and the firefighters can’t wait to move in!
Volusia County Schools celebrated the groundbreaking of the new Chisholm Elementary.
The state-of-the-art replacement school will be completed in two phases. Phase I will be complete in August 2019. Phase I construction will consist tearing down the original school building, a 2-story classroom facility and a single story building to include administration offices, a larger cafeteria, multi-purpose areas and a media center.
Phase II will be complete in August 2020. Phase II construction will consist of a single story classroom building and covered recreation area.
The new school will have a capacity of about 750 students.
When completed Chisholm will have approximately 93,420 square feet.
H. J. High is proud to be part this project which brings a legacy of over 60 years into a new, more modern facility.
H. J. High Construction has completed the new 29,500 SF hangar facility for Atlantic Aviation at Orlando International Airport. The building boasts 26,000 SF of aircraft hangar with 3,500 SF of new offices, bathrooms and lobby.
The project includes an extra thick concrete slab to accommodate aircraft of various sizes. The building itself was a pre-engineered metal construction with an installed sliding hangar door with four internal motor operators. It included a new mechanical system with large fans within the hangar for efficient air circulation.
“Atlantic Aviation is known for its first class service to its customers and it was imperative that we delivered an upscale facility that embodied that.” stated Robert High, President of H. J. High Construction.
Nestled on the West side of Orlando International Airport, this first class hangar provides a second storage facility for Atlantic Aviation and its patrons.
H. J. High Construction recently commenced construction on a substantial expansion and addition for Martin’s Famous Pastry Shoppe, Inc.® at their production facility in Valdosta, Georgia.
The project scope includes the addition of more than 100,000 square feet for expanded production space. This will allow the creation of a new production line, as well as space for future business growth. The expansion project includes new tilt walls, concrete foundation, precast floor, stairs and roof panels in addition to membrane roofing, plumbing, electrical, mechanical, civil site work and fire sprinkler systems.
“We are excited about the expansion of the bakery,” said Tony Martin, executive vice president of Martin’s Famous Pastry Shoppe, Inc.®. “We are moving to a higher level of business and operational sophistication that will increase efficiency, better serve our customers and allow for future growth.”
Martin’s Famous Pastry Shoppe is a family-owned and operated consumer goods company headquartered in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania with a major production facility in Valdosta, Georgia. Martin’s is best-known for their delicious potato rolls that have a slightly sweet, buttery taste and a pillowy texture. The Martin’s Sandwich Potato Roll is the number one branded hamburger roll in the United States according to IRI data. However, their overall success can be attributed to the company’s culture of working with fairness and integrity, as well as the unwavering dedication to their mission of baking the best products and providing the best sales distribution support through their strategy of doing “whatever it takes, God helping us.”
“As a family-owned business ourselves with deep roots in our community, a desire to be the best and a commitment to treating all people with respect; we are proud to partner with Martin’s Famous Pastry Shoppe on this significant project,” said Robert High, President of H. J. High Construction in Orlando, Florida. “The fact that we share so many of the same values is what led us to pursue and I believe, ultimately land, this significant project.”
Manatee Elementary brought new meaning to the H. J. High hands-on approach to construction. Certainly, we’re a hands-on team. Well, so are they. Literally.
We imprinted the hands of more than 1,800 elementary school students onto these panels. Over a three week period, we coordinated the logistics of bus-loading school children, ages 6-12, to cast their handprints in plaster molds. While it was certainly a fun aspect to the project with a wonderful result, it also required a great deal of care, scheduling and oversight, particularly with regard to children on an active construction site. The handprints were a reverse image of the children’s hands and to identify whose hands they were also meant the H. J. High team would write the children’s initials backwards 1,800 times! It took 9,900 pounds of plaster to create the handprint molds and 700 man-hours to handle the whole process.