As part of a $1B bond measure passed by Ann Arbor Public Schools, IMEG is providing engineering design services for the new Mitchell Elementary. The project will be the first new elementary school in the Ann Arbor Public School District in over 50 years and is a need for the district due to the success of its International Baccalaureate program.

The project is currently in design phase and placing a high-emphasis on sustainability and reducing the overall impact on the environment by teaching students how the building works to achieve those goals. The new building will feature a variety of flexible learning spaces such as common areas, small group spaces, and active lab space that allows for complete collaboration between staff and students.

IMEG is implementing strategies such as geothermal, central water-to-water heat pumps, demand-controlled ventilation using vacancy overrides to reduce ventilation, all-electric heating and cooling, and mass timber construction materials. This is all to achieve the district’s goals of dramatically reducing embodied and operational carbon as well as energy consumption.

IMEG also completed engineering design services for the new, 60,000-sf Pathways High School using similar systems and strategies for reducing carbon and energy. The Pathways project is not moving forward into construction at this time.