Board Breaks Ground for New School
August 2, 2007
The Fayette County Board of Education broke
ground for the new Inman Elementary School
located at the corner of Georgia Highway 92 and
Inman Road.
The school is slated to open August 2008 and is
designed for an enrollment of 675 students in
grades K-5. The construction of the school is
part of the $2 million bond referendum approved
by voters in November 2004.
The 96,000 square foot facility will have 43
classrooms with state-of-the-art technology
retrieval systems and direct digital building
systems automation. The central courtyard design
allows natural daylight to flood into every
classroom.
The design of Inman Elementary is a listed
prototype school design with the Georgia
Department of Education. The same design was
used in the construction of Spring Hill, Kedron,
Peeples, Crabapple Lane, Cleveland and Sara Harp
Minter Elementary schools. By reusing the state
approved prototype, the county saves taxpayer
dollars by eliminating the cost of designing a
school from scratch.
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Photo: (L-R) Jason Walls, Integrated Science &
Engineering; Superintendent John DeCotis; Jamey
Burkes, Nix Fowler Constructors; Laura Brock,
interim comptroller; board member Dr. Bob Todd;
construction manager Klaus Darnall; board member
Marion Key; Deputy Superintendent Fred Oliver;
board chairwoman Terri Smith; Phil Norris, BRPH
Architects; Harry DeLoach, BRPH Architects;
Clarence Nix, Nix Fowler Construction; Mike
Satterfield, director of facility services;
David McCurdy, Nix Fowler Construction and Keith
Foster, Nix Fowler Construction. Not pictured
are
board members Janet Smola and Lee Wright.
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