Chesterfield Career & Technical Center

Midlothian, VA

Client: BCWH Architects

Completion Date: 2014

The transformation of a repurposed high school in Chesterfield County, Virginia into a Career and Technical Center required a complete overhaul of the 198,000 square foot building. A multi-functional design was implemented that combined career and technical education, school administration and an event center. Specialty career and technical education spaces included labs, lecture and research areas for bio-technology, homeland security, ecology, Physical Therapy/Occupational Therapy, and mechatronics. Community focused spaces included the retasked gymnasium functioning as a conference center and primarily composed of three medium and one large conference room, along with comprehensive renovations to the existing 600 seat auditorium.

Polysonics provided networks and communication, audiovisual and electronic security design services for the conference center, career and technical education and administration spaces. Voice and data infrastructure, VoIP, LAN, WiFi network design, HD video presentation, conference room audiovisual systems, room combining systems, video conferencing, audiovisual control systems, classroom instructional technology, speech reinforcement systems, and CATV systems video surveillance were incorporated in the design.