{"id":35420,"date":"2013-02-26T09:24:37","date_gmt":"2013-02-26T14:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/?p=35420"},"modified":"2013-02-27T08:12:31","modified_gmt":"2013-02-27T13:12:31","slug":"vantage-career-center-shows-off-new-bigger-facility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2013\/02\/26\/vantage-career-center-shows-off-new-bigger-facility\/","title":{"rendered":"Vantage Career Center shows facility"},"content":{"rendered":"

DAVE MOSIER\/<\/strong>independent editor<\/em><\/p>\n

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A large number of people toured Vantage Career Center's renovated and expanded facility following a ceremony held to official open the building on Monday evening. (Dave Mosier\/Van Wert independent)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After more than two years of waiting, Vantage Career Center students and staff celebrated the official opening of its renovated and expanded facility on Monday.<\/p>\n

A number of dignitaries, Vantage board members and administrative officials and those involved in the project were on hand for the grand opening, while students and staff in fancy red Vantage shirts led visitors on tours of the renovated facility.<\/p>\n

After a welcome by Superintendent Staci Kaufman, who acted as emcee of the event, Vantage Board President Lonnie Nedderman thanked voters in each of Vantage\u2019s member school districts for supporting the project, as well as students and staff for their patience during the facility project.<\/p>\n

Nedderman also got a laugh when he talked about the many construction meetings held throughout the project.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t say I will really miss the meetings, but I appreciate the professionalism in which the meetings were run,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Chad Stevers of Gilbane Building Company, construction manager on the project, and architect Bruce Miller of Garmann Miller talked about the difficulty of the project.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis was a very difficult project, to say the least,\u201d Miller said the Vantage project was \u201cprobably one of the most difficult designs we\u2019ve ever had to complete.\u201d<\/p>\n

The architect explained that the state-of-the-art facility project entailed installation of new electrical wiring and systems, HVAC, water lines, heating systems, technology infrastructure and fire alarms, all while keeping the building operational for students.<\/p>\n

\u201cA real honor and treat for us to be a part of,\u201d Miller concluded, and also thanked Gilbane for keeping the project on schedule and on budget, as well as the contractors who worked on the building.<\/p>\n

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Vantage Superintendent Staci Kaufman provides information on the school's $35 million renovation project. (Dave Mosier\/Van Wert independent)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Stevers also noted that all six phases were completed on schedule and school started on time in each phase and introduced Vantage students who participated in the Junior Builders program that involved helping work on the building.<\/p>\n

Also speaking was Amy Lloyd of the Ohio School Facilities Commission, which funded more than 70 percent of the project, who congratulated Vantage on completion of the building renovation and addition.<\/p>\n

Kaufman thanked Connie Boley, a Vantage graduate and owner of the Artful Swan, who designed and helped complete the \u201cEd G\u201d sculpture located at the entrance to the commons area, and noted that the sculpture would be on display in the Statehouse atrium on March 7.<\/p>\n

The Vantage superintendent also cited some of the \u201cfun facts\u201d of the project, noting that the school went from 123,000 square feet to 187,000 square feet, with the entire building gutted and renovated. The building is also now 34.2 percent more energy efficient, and there were 160 miles of electric wire pulled and 34 miles of conduit installed on the project. The building has 156 skylights, 4,200 yards of concrete was poured, and 30,000 square feet of terrazzo tile installed. Contractors used 170 tons of structural steel and 142 tons of steel joists, while Vantage now has a 5,000-amp electric service, with 1,200 amps going to each of the school\u2019s nine \u201cbig bay\u201d labs. Kaufman also noted that a minimum of 85 percent of construction waste was either recycled or otherwise diverted from landfills.<\/p>\n

The Vantage superintendent gave special thanks to Treasurer Lori Davis for her work on the construction project and Director Bob Vennekotter, as well as maintenance supervisor Dave Young and warehouse manager Don Mosier for their knowledge<\/p>\n

\u201cThey contributed knowledge of this building that nobody else had,\u201d she noted.<\/p>\n

The superintendent also thanked the Vantage<\/p>\n

Kaufman also got a bit while concluding her remarks, when she talked about the Vantage community and its support. \u201cThank you, our community, for making our new career center a reality.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

DAVE MOSIER\/independent editor After more than two years of waiting, Vantage Career Center students and staff celebrated the official opening of its renovated and expanded facility on Monday. A number of dignitaries, Vantage board members and administrative officials and those involved in the project were on hand for the grand opening, while students and staff […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-10 13:28:52","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}