GK Engineers provided full MEP design for classroom additions at two Port Arthur ISD elementary campuses: two classrooms totaling about 3,000 SF at Staff Sergeant Lucian Adams Elementary and one 3,500 SF classroom at Lakeview Elementary. Each addition had to run on its campus’s existing systems.

Each campus received fan coil units with supplemental heat, with exhaust fans at Adams and intake and exhaust louvers at Lakeview. Power came from existing panels after a load check, with new branch circuits, LED lighting, projector power and card readers at the new vestibules, and Adams added a classroom restroom and sink on the existing water and sanitary mains.

A panel-by-panel load analysis showed the existing 2,000A Lakeview distribution could carry the new HVAC and lighting with margin, so no new feeders were needed. All systems were modeled in Revit, construction documents were issued in October 2023, and GK made construction site visits through 2025.

Image: Lakeview Elementary.