A feasibility study in the Northern Lehigh School District continues to progress.

Architects from Alloy5 provided an update on the study to the school board recently.

It was noted they are at about the halfway point of the study, with the first step being data collection, analysis, and evaluation when their team got to know the district team, along with some history of the district and where they’d like to see the future go and talking with each of the principal’s about their buildings.

That coincided with the next step which was building evaluations in which the Alloy5 team and the McClure Company team (who worked on the mechanical, electrical, and plumbing) went through each of the buildings and evaluated the current conditions of the buildings.

The third step will likely occur at the end of the study sometime in the fall when they will present some paths forward and what the concept designs may look like based on some of the feedback they received to date and how the building evaluations have looked.

They explored the functionality of the buildings and how their evaluated, as well as how their working for the principals and the students of the Northern Lehigh community.

They kicked off the project at the end of May, early June. Building evaluations were conducted at Peters Elementary, Slatington Elementary, Northern Lehigh Middle School, Northern Lehigh High School, the field house and maintenance building, Bulldog Stadium, the baseball, softball, and practice fields, and the middle school fields.

The next steps were to include a design meeting concerning community outreach, design team discussions, design concepts, and board meeting attendance.

Director Donna Kulp said it was a great presentation.

Director Gary Fedorcha complimented the district’s maintenance staff of maintaining its grounds and buildings.

“I think we’re in great shape as far as what we’re doing for maintenance,” Fedorcha said.

Board President Mathias Green asked if the plan is to attack each building individually or work on all of them at the same time.

Green was told that one of the immediate outcomes is that a master plan will be provided for the district.

In March, the board approved administration to develop and post a Request for Proposals for a district wide comprehensive feasibility study.

The cost of the study is $8,800.