Episcopal Academy was founded in 1785 and is dedicated to educating qualified, motivated students to grow intellectually, physically, and spiritually. To ensure this mission continues, the school began plans for its new campus in 2003. Located in Newtown Square, the new campus will unite both the Merion, PA and Devon, PA campuses to a single location. Operating from one campus will allow the school to create a new sense of community that was previously not possible, and provide the flexibility to grow and introduce new programs as well as new facilities as the school continues to evolve. Episcopal will open the doors to the Newtown Square Campus in the Fall of 2008.

The impressive design and construction team for this project includes four different architectural firms, Venturi Scott Brown & Associates, Hillier, Gund Partnership and Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, as well as the facility planning and program management firm of Brailsford & Dunlavey. Bala Consulting Engineers is proud to provide engineering design services for all of the facilities on the Episcopal campus.

The 123-acre site will house over 365,000 square feet of new facilities, including:

• lower, middle and upper school buildings
• a science center
• student center,
• athletic facility
• chapel

Bala is providing mechanical, electrical, plumbing, fire protection and voice/data engineering services for the facilities.

The new student center will hous a performing arts theater, library, and three (3) separate dining facilities. The science center will house both the upper and middle school science labs for earthscience, biology, chemistry and physics.

The designs for the campus include: independent building mechanical, electrical, plumbing and fire protection systems with a stand alone Building Automation Systems (BAS) which will tie into an overall campus wide monitoring system.

The voice/data designs for the campus include VoIP services, wireless LAN services, CATV, CCTV and additional converged LAN applications. The design will also include bi-directional video and integrated overhead and desktop paging through a networked voice over internet protocol system.

Bala is also providing security system design for the project.

The design involves a cable distribution plan for closed circuit television, card access system and an intrusion alarm system. The overall cable plant will merge all technologies under the telecommunications umbrella.

In addition to the new facilities, the campus incorporates many new athletic fields including:

• a football stadium with an eight (8) lane track
• practice football field
• three (3) multi-purpose soccer/field hockey/lacrosse fields
• four (4) multi-purpose baseball/softball/soccer fields
• fourteen (14) tennis courts

The athletic facility includes:

• five (5) basketball courts
• ten (10) squash courts
• an eight (8) lane pool

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