Construct-IT™ and Track-IT™ Implementation for 2007 Bond Program
Client: Houston Independent School District
Project Value: $1.045B Rebuild HISD
Products: Track-IT™, Construct-IT™
Key Facts
- Renovate and repair 134 schools.
- Building 13 new replacement schools.
- Building 3 new relief schools.
- Expanding 2 schools to relieve overcrowding.
In 2002, voters approved the $805-million Rebuild HISD bond program, whose goal is to rebuild, upgrade, and renovate schools that no longer met modern standards for learning. The following Capital Facilities Program projects are planned to be accomplished in phases over the life of the program.
- Providing safety and security upgrades for all schools.
- Providing science lab upgrades for all secondary schools.
- Building 13 new replacement schools.
- Building 3 new relief schools.
- Expanding 2 schools to relieve overcrowding.
- Providing for 3 additional early college campuses.
- Building 6 new schools to replace outdated facilities with low enrollment.
- Expanding 2 existing schools to replace older schools with low enrollment.
- Renovate and repair 134 schools.
Rebuild HISD also addresses the renovation of gymnasiums district wide (including the installation of air-conditioning systems in all middle- and high-school facilities), the development of four early-childhood education centers throughout the district, and the upgrading of 125 school playgrounds.
The school district needed a cost effective way to manage the myriad of projects associated with this initiative throughout the program lifecycle. Complicating the challenge is the geographic expanse of the bond program. It covers over 200 square miles of geography all needing real-time access to information. In addition the district needed a way to speed up and simplify the process of meeting the reporting requirements particularly important for a school district because of the need to meet transparency and accountability requirements of today’s public institutions.