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V O L . X X V I N O. X X I I S E P T E M B E R 2 1 , 2 0 2 0 12 BUILDING BUSINESS BY PETER BY PETER VAN ALLEN VAN ALLEN 'BACK TO SCHOOL' HAS ADDED MEANING FOR THIS CONSTRUCTION FIRM As the new school year starts, many students will be going into new schools built by Ledgewood Construction. e South Portland firm just com- pleted an elementary school in Brunswick and a middle school in the Camden- Rockport district. It's working school additions in Yarmouth and Winslow, and just won a new contract to expand a school in Lewiston. "Construction hasn't slowed down," says Lisa Beeler, business development director for Ledgewood. While the industry faces questions how much future commercial work there will be, school work remains a constant. Still, the pandemic has posed obstacles for school construction projects. "For us, there were periods when we were stop-go, stop-go," Beeler says. Having students studying remotely allowed workers to fast-track aspects of work. But the Canadian border clos- ings temporarily cut off the supply of some key building materials, including steel I-beams. at has been resolved and job sites are again receiving mate- rials, she says. Here's a look at Ledgewood's lineup of school projects: Completed: Kate Furbish Elementary School was a $20.3 million, 91,000-square-school for Brunswick. Classes were scheduled to start Sept. 14. Completed: Camden-Rockport Middle School was a $32 million, 83,400-square-foot project. Ledgewood is still overseeing demo- lition of old school buildings, but school was scheduled to start Sept. 14. Completed: Winslow Junior High was an $8 million, 39,000-square- foot wing that now ties the junior high to the existing high school building. Ledgewood also did renovations on elementary school. Students are back in school. Under construction: Yarmouth High School, a $12.1 million addition and renovation. School has started, but the work areas have been closed off from school areas. Completion is set for January 2021. Future: Ledgewood was just awarded the Lewiston High School contract, which calls for a $9.5 mil- lion expansion and renovation It will include a 33,000-square-foot addi- tion and 10,000-square-foot renova- tion. Work will start soon, before the weather gets bad. All these projects in different places require coordination. Senior project manager Scott Clark was responsible for the school work in Brunswick, Winslow and now Yarmouth. He works directly with the senior superintendent at each site, Beeler says. Ledgewood, which has 15 per- manent employees, is independently owned by Peter Bernard. Pete Pelletier, the president, manages the day-to-day operations. MWH CONSTRUCTORS WILL MANAGE $50 MILLION WATER SITE MWH Constructors will oversee construction of Maine Water Co.'s $50 million water treatment plant. e Saco River Drinking Water Treatment Facility, as it will be known, will serve 40,000 residents of Biddeford, Old Orchard Beach, Saco and Scarborough. When it opens in Spring 2022, it will replace a system that dates to 1884. MWH, which is based in Broomfield, Colo., and has Maine offices in Biddeford and Topsham, specializes in water-treatment plants. P H O T O / C O U R T E S Y L E D G E WO O D C O N S T R U C T I O N Ledgewood recently completed schools in Brunswick, Camden- Rockport and Winslow. HancockLumber.com/Saco2020 Check out our completed project video time lapse: NOW OPEN IN SACO! 941 PORTLAND ROAD

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