Project Description
The Salem-Keizer School District has a new facility for parking, maintaining and fueling its vehicle fleet, especially the large number of school buses, with the construction of a transportation facility along Gaffin Road in Salem.
Todd Construction self-performed the concrete work involved in the footings and many tilt-up concrete walls. The company also used its own forces for the wood framing.
The nearly 15-acre site provides room for a maintenance building, wash building and fuel station with an island and canopy. The parking lot has 239 spaces for employees and visitors and the bus storage lot accommodates 176 school buses. A commercial driver’s license testing course will also be at the site.
The project also includes multiple swales, stormwater detention facilities and rain gardens.
The new transportation center replaces a cramped headquarters that district officials wanted to replace for 20 years. The new facility is built to last for the next 40 to 50 years.
Todd Construction completed two projects for the Salem-Keizer School District back-to-back the previous two years, a seismic renovation at South Salem High School and an addition and renovation at Judson Middle School. The company also won a bid to add renovate the athletic wing, enlarge the Commons, expand the CTE space, and add a new three-story classroom wing onto West Salem High School.
