IMEG is providing engineering design services for the new Ann Arbor Public Schools 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.

Our team is implementing strategies such as centralized geothermal heat recovery chillers with 4-pipe fan coil units and dedicated outside air units, 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.

This is the first of several similar projects resulting from a $1B bond measure passed by Ann Arbor Public Schools. The intent of the bond measure includes new construction, renovations, and the design and construction of various sustainability measures.