Progress Continues At Byram's New Lebanon School

GREENWICH, CT — From Greenwich Public Schools: About the School Building Project — This intra-district elementary International Baccalaureate magnet school will serve 374 students in grades PreK-5. The centrally located learning commons, equipped with flexible furnishings & adaptable technological infrastructure, allows for multiple zones of simultaneous learning. The building is designed to meet the sustainability goals established by the Educational Specifications and to achieve a gold-level LEED rating from US Green Building Council. The school will contain 21 general classrooms, 4 dedicated classrooms for art, music, and other instruction, a media center, gymnasium, cafeteria, and other support spaces for children, teachers, and school administration.

Work commenced on the site with the Official Ground Breaking on December 7, 2017.

The following work was accomplished:

• Surveyors were onsite to layout the building footprint and limits of disturbance
• Site construction fence was installed along perimeter
• Tree tagging was completed to determine replacement quantity
• Tree cutting and removal is complete
• Topsoil has been stockpiled and currently being removed
• Gilbane site office trailer was installed and is operational
• Pre-Blasting surveys are complete on adjacent structures
• Ledge drilling and blasting has begun and will continue for approximately 3 weeks
• Multiple Blasting Notices were sent to each household within 500’ of the site
• Several dump trucks have started hauling fill material into the site and will continue for
approximately 6 weeks.
• The truck route will be Frontage Road to Delavan Avenue to Veterans Way
(formerly New Lebanon Avenue) during the hours of 7:00am and 3:30pm
Monday – Friday
• Rock Crushing will begin in the school play field

Work anticipated for the coming weeks:

• Ledge drilling and blasting
• Dump trucks delivering fill material
• Foundation Concrete

If you have a concern, please contact the Gilbane Project Manager, Daniel Phillips at (914) 246-4862.

Visit our website: www.greenwichschools.org/NLSBC

Photo credit: Alfred Branch