For this school control building, Romtec was able to partner with the engineer, PBS Engineering, to provide a control building that will hold pumping equipment for a new irrigation system at a school in Richland, Washington.
We worked with the Richland School District, who needed the school control building at Chief Joseph Middle School, as they have many large athletic fields. The middle school control building is going to hold two electrical control boxes and two VFSs for a small pump (irrigation) system. The school district utilized the KCDA purchasing cooperative for Washington State schools to purchase the control building from Romtec.
The control building has split face concrete block wall, a single slope roof, wall vents, and temperature control systems to regulate the temperature during varying conditions. We partnered with PBS Engineering before on a project that also included a control building, so this was another project that we were able to design and supply a school storage building for the customer.
About Richland, Washington
Richland, Washington is a city located at the confluence of the Columbia River and the Yakama River.
With the other nearby cities, Pasco and Kennewick, they all three make up the Tri-Cities metropolitan area which had a population of 220,959 as of 2020.
The city of Richland has historic significance as it was the home to the Hanford nuclear site as part of the Manhattan Project during World War II.
The Richland School District serves the communities of Richland and West Richland. Chief Joseph Middle School is a middle school in Richland within the Richland School District that has several large sports fields.
School Storage Building
Richland School District wanted to direct purchase a Romtec control building model 2640 for the Chief Joseph Middle School to house two electrical control boxes and two VFDs for a small pump system. The end owner will be the City of Richland and the structure was purchases by the Richland School district using KCDA. The project went out to bid for the installation with an owner supplied Romtec building.
The pump system and control building are a new application for the school and will support an irrigation system on school grounds.
PBS (PBS Engineering & Environmental Inc.) is a civil engineer who has worked with Romtec Utilities on previous projects including Columbia Palisades and the control building. Romtec Utilities referred PBS to Romtec for assistance in the control building model 2640 for design and supply only for a direct purchase through KCDA.
The Romtec model 2640 control building features CMU split face concrete block wall, single slope metal roof, wall vents, and a wall mounted ERV system air exchange with exhaust and heated air intake.
This is a simple control building that will be temperature controlled to protect the equipment therein.
Richland School District was a first-time customer of Romtec and Siefken & Sons Construction, Inc. was a first-time installer that did a great job on the model 2604 equipment building.
Housing Control Building
Richland School District and Siefken & Sons Construction were pleased with the Romtec product offering and process as well as the support they received from our construction management team.
PBS provides engineering, environmental, and land survey services, and is the hub for the development of our Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) program with its office in Richland, Washington.
Siefken & Sons Construction is a general contractor based in Richland, Washington with over 30 years of experience in commercial construction.
Romtec was pleased to provide this control building for the Richland School District in partnership with PBS Engineering, and Siefken and Sons Construction. The control building will hold two electrical control boxes and two VFDs for a small irrigation system, for Chief Joseph Middle School.
This school control building was a fun project to deliver for the Richland School District as they installed a new irrigation system for their sports fields.
At Romtec, we design, supply, and build control buildings for cities, municipalities, schools, and developments all over the U.S. We design high quality restroom, concession, and park and recreation buildings for parks and destination all over the country.
If you need a school control building for any reason, contact our team today where we can design the building to fit your project needs.