LOS ANGELES-Oxnard Unified School District has selected Bernards, a Los Angeles-based commercial builder, to rebuild the Harrington Elementary School campus. With partial funding from the California State Schools Facilities Program, the project has a $22.8 million budget.

Bernards will build the new campus on the site's 8.3-acre playground with Dougherty & Dougherty as the project designer. Students will continue to attend the old campus during construction, which will begin in November 2014 with completion expected in January of 2015. “Our team of professionals, however, has extensive experience working in this type of environment and has developed special construction strategies that minimize disruption to students and faculty and maximize safety,” says Steve Pellegren, VP of preconstruction services at Bernards. “These strategies will be customized for the Harrington project to ensure construction does not impede regular school activities, as well as meet the district's goals and expectations.”

The designer and builder will adapt former plans they developed for the La Tijera K-8 School in Ingelwood. The new campus will include 23 classrooms and four kindergarten rooms, as well as food service, administrative, physical education and media facilities for 700 students, an increase of 142 students from the current campus.