The Terrebonne Parish School District has constructed a major addition to the Mulberry Elementary School in Houma, LA. This project created an additional 50,000 square feet of learning and activity space to the existing school campus. This campus expansion was required due to neighborhood expansions and population growth in the area served by the existing school facility.   In leu of relocating the school to a new site, the Terrebonne Parish School District acquired additional property adjacent to the existing facility.  The addition to the campus added 18 classrooms, replacing the 18 portable buildings previously used for classroom space, a new cafeteria, new administration offices, and 150 additional parking spaces.

To facilitate the building additions, the site required an extensive amount of infrastructure improvements.  Approximately 125,000square feet of paving, site utilities including potable water, sanitary sewer, and fire protection, and storm drainage improvements were constructed to serve the new facility. It was critical that construction of the new facilities used minimum impacts to the existing facility. The Terrebonne Parish School District did not have other facilities to accommodate the existing students during the construction period; therefore, included with the civil site plans were temporary parking facilities for staff and temporary access for drop off/pick up of students.