The school fits carefully within the existing forest.

The Whately Elementary School project involved comprehensive site design and engineering for a $3 million new elementary school located on a 10 acre rural site. Dodson Associates assisted the architect in site selection and building location and orientation. Additionally, we designed and specified access roads, parking areas, grading, drainage, planting, thinning and moving of existing trees, layout of play fields, and exterior lighting. The firm prepared complete construction drawings and supervised construction of project. One key feature of this project was the moving of over 100 existing trees to new locations with an hydraulic tree spade. The total site construction budget was $430,000.