Dear Friends,
This is an update on the construction taking place that we told you about at the end of the school year. It’s half-way through summer and already so much has happened as you will see in this photo gallery [click here] or when you come to campus. Here’s an overview of what has been taking place:
- The portable classrooms behind Highland Hall have been demolished and removed.
- The Highland Hall parking lot has been excavated and graded to make way for the new access road to campus.
- We are in the process of installing new underground electrical wiring, transformers, communications cables, storm drains and water lines in the Ortega Business Center, on the Gateway Field and in the Highland Hall parking lot, to prepare for new buildings.
- On a portion of the Gateway Field, foundations have been poured for what will bethe new temporary home of 7th and 8th grades.
- The pre-fabricated modular classrooms have started to arrive and will soon beinstalled on their foundations.
- We’ve upgraded the fire alarm systems in the Wallace Hall building and arepreparing for the relocation of the Wee Tartan Center to this building.
- A new home for the ceramic firing kilns is under construction close to the Middle School art room.
As you can see, much work is being done. This master campus development project is being overseen by our Director of Finance and Operations David Bush. We will continue to provide you with updates on construction activity. New traffic flow and parking policies will be sent in August.
For information about the Building on the Promise capital campaign, please contact Steve Harrington at 949-661-0108 ext. 318, or steve.harrington@smes.org, or visit www.smes.org.
For your personal safety and for the ongoing smooth operations of our various construction projects, please respect the construction fencing, caution tape, cones and signage when you are on campus.
We look forward to seeing you on campus soon,
Marcus D. Hurlbut







Campus Construction Update 8/25
We are pleased to share with you an update on our summer construction projects. Please see the points below and view a chronological photo gallery (click here) of the work that has been accomplished since our last update on July 30, 2010.