According to an update provided at the Newport School Building Committee meeting on Tuesday night during the Newport School Committee Meeting, the new Rogers High School building project is 58% complete and expected to be fully enclosed by early November.
The project has achieved $1.5 million in value engineering savings through efforts that began in late 2022.
Louise Boatwright, Vice Chair of the Newport School Committee and a member of the School Building Committee, reported that windows and bricks are currently being installed on the structure.
“It’s going to be fully enclosed by the end of October, early November timeframe,” Boatwright said.
Rhode Island Energy is scheduled to connect power to the new building by the end of September, allowing for both the new and old buildings to have electricity.
The committee has decided to reduce the frequency of project updates from weekly to monthly to avoid information overload.
“Sometimes you can be given too much information that overwhelms you,” Rebecca Bolan, Chair of the Newport School Committee and a School Building Committee member, explained. “We’re actually going to make those once a month. And they’ll be still full of everything you want to hear and then some.”
The video below shows the School Committee Building Committee update beginning at approximately 1:10 minutes.
