JSD is proud to have been a partner on the nearly 600,000-square-foot Verona Area High School which opened for the 2020-2021 school year. JSD led the way with site selection and site analysis along with cost estimating during pre-referendum, then took the lead on planning, civil engineering, landscape architecture, and land surveying services for the school district’s successful referendum–one of the largest in Wisconsin’s history.

The $182 million referendum included a new high school campus and improvements to additional district facilities. The high school campus was designed to work with the challenging terrain and provide intuitive circulation for day-to-day activities as well as special events. The project provides ample parking, new competition and practice sports fields, a full cross-country course, environmental learning areas incorporated in the stormwater management design, and outdoor class space.

JSD partnered with the architect to ensure the design of outdoor elements was cohesive with the architecture of the buildings. JSD also provided the design of a large network of public roadways with public storm sewer, sanitary sewer and watermain to accommodate the additional traffic and utility demand generated by the campus. Some of the highlights of the public roadway improvements were a signalized intersection at Verona Avenue and West End Circle, a vehicular bridge on Wildcat Way over an unnamed creek which required floodplain management and wetland permitting, a below grade bike trail crossing for the Military Ridge State Trail, channelization improvements for the intersection of Legion Street and South Nine Mound Road, and six roadway intersections through the campus.