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.

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.

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.

Watch the process by clicking here.