Stellar completes The Bolles School’s $25 million innovation center (Courtesy of the Jacksonville Daily Record) — Stellar, an architecture, engineering, construction and mechanical services firm, completed construction of The Frank R. Sanchez & Hope and Dana E. Fender Center for Innovation, a multi-use educational building on The Bolles School’s San Jose campus in Jacksonville.
The three-story center houses Bolles’ science, mathematics and technology programs. Specialty science labs include an Anatomage table, a virtual dissection table used by medical schools around the world.
The $25 million construction project began in June 2022.
“Working on an active riverfront site with frequent student drop-off and pickup presented challenges, but our experience coordinating logistics on other campus projects helped us maintain consistency and safety for students while getting our job done,” Tim Jenkins, senior vice president of Stellar’s Commercial Division, said in a Sept. 18 news release.
The center also has areas for advanced robotics, computer programming, IT, engineering and design courses. Classrooms and collaboration spaces can be configured into different sizes to encourage discussion and creativity.
In addition to its classrooms and laboratories, the center may host events such as fundraisers or graduations.
The Bolles Center for Innovation opened to students when the school year began Aug. 14.
Photo courtesy of Stellar