Independent, On-Campus Housing for Freshmen Built as the ideal freshman residential facility, Eagle Village combines private bedrooms that students enjoy with many opportunities for community development through shared lounges, floor kitchens, and the 4-unit apartment cluster that provides students with the ability to meet and connect with other freshmen students. A shared clubhouse provides students […]

Gwinnett’s First STEM Certified HS Continues Path Of Excellence GSMST is Gwinnett County Public Schools’ (GCPS) first charter school and is devoted to teaching students who show a strong interest in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics.  GCPS is the largest school system in Georgia.  This unique project presented Hussey Gay Bell with […]

A 33,500 SF Addition for Generations of Learning Hussey Gay Bell was recently awarded its 33rd commission with Gwinnett County Public Schools (GCPS), a 22-classroom addition to Chesney Elementary School in Duluth, Georgia. The existing campus has already received one major addition and renovation with an additional expansion not anticipated. Our challenge includes placing a […]

Historic School Renovation for Progressive Future Artists Named one of “America’s Best High Schools” by Newsweek Magazine, Savannah Arts Academy was the first dedicated performing and visual arts school in Chatham County. Hussey Gay Bell was challenged by the Savannah-Chatham County Public School System to renovate a 1930s, historic schoolhouse into a progressive, hands-on learning […]

Orange Grove Elementary Charter School, school of acceptance Hussey Gay Bell provided site/civil engineering services to Altman Architectural Group for this 725-student elementary school, which serves students in kindergarten through fourth grade.  The firm coordinated traffic, geotechnical, parking, archaeological, wetlands and environmental services.  In addition, Hussey Gay Bell provided site improvements to McNair Elementary School […]

Where Research, Functionality & Beauty Merge Designed by the Hussey Gay Bell/Lord Aeck Sargent team, the UGA Skidaway Institute of Oceanography (SkIO) state-of-the-art $5M, 11,000 SF research center provided much needed research lab space to support the center’s mission – “to provide the State of Georgia with a nationally and internationally recognized center of excellence […]

Mingledorff Hall, Upper School STEM Center Nestled in Savannah, Georgia, Savannah Country Day is an independent school that traces its origins back to the 1905 founding of The Pape School. Over the past 60+ years, the School’s curriculum has evolved in tandem with the changing needs of young minds to continue their mission of preparing […]

Tight Sight Leads to Smarter Footprint for New School The New Meadowcreek Cluster Elementary School is proposed for one of the few remaining open parcels in the Tucker area of fast growing Gwinnett County.  The tight sight, challenging project budget and significant presence of sub-surface rock were all prominent factors in the design of the […]

Single Largest Supplier of Engineers to WRAFB Gets Facelift Project scope consisted of the design and construction of a new 52,000 SF, $10M facility located on the Macon, Georgia campus of Mercer University. Through a partnership with Warner Robins Air Force Base, Mercer constructed this new facility to train specific engineering skills needed at the […]

Ashley River Creative Arts Elementary School Hussey Gay Bell provided site/civil engineering services to Liollio Architects for the demolition/reconstruction/renovation of this 90,000 SF elementary school which accommodates 528 students from kindergarten through fifth grade. In addition, Hussey Gay Bell coordinated traffic, parking, archaeological, wetlands and environmental services.  Ashley River was constructed in two phases – […]

A New Vision:  A STEM School Within A School Hussey Gay Bell was selected by the Savannah-Chatham County Public Schools Board of Education to design the District’s new Jenkins High School project which, through heavily phased construction, will replace the existing school located on a 40-acre site off of DeRenne Avenue. The $66M, 239,000 square […]

From Shopping Center to State-of-the-Art Hussey Gay Bell is the Architect and Engineer of Record for this project which consisted of the design and construction of a new $5 million, 21,000-square-foot Liberty Campus in Hinesville, Georgia. Located at the southeast corner of the intersection of Memorial Drive and Welborn Street, the new building replaces an […]

Camp Road Middle School, Charleston School District, Charleston, SC As a subconsultant to Rosenblum COE, Hussey Gay Bell provided Civil Engineering services to Charleston School District for the Camp Road Middle School.  The project consisted of Master Planning, Programming, and Design for a new 137,000 SF middle school. The school is designed for a maximum […]

A New High School Aiming for Higher Education Hussey Gay Bell provided architectural, interior, and structural engineering design services for this project which consisted of the design and construction of this new, 180,000 SF early college high school on 65 acres in the north area of Beaufort County, South Carolina. Designed to house approximately 1,000 […]

Hall County Expands and Renovates East Hall High School Hussey Gay Bell has completed numerous renovations and additions at East Hall High School that includes multiple commissions over several years. These include comprehensive general renovations to various classroom wings, a major kitchen addition, Science and Health Care Science Lab renovations, mechanical and roof renovations, STEM […]

Challenging Topography Creates Magnificent Views Hussey Gay Bell provided architectural and engineering design for a new, 180,000 square foot Middle School facility with a core capacity of 1,000 students and an initial classroom capacity of 800 students. The school was designed around a Main Street concept with Administration being centrally located on the first floor […]

90,000 Square Feet of Flexible Classrooms Hussey Gay Bell provided full-service architectural and engineering design services for this project which consisted of the overall renovation of 26,500 SF of the 60,000 SF William and Iffath Hoskins Center for Biomedical Research, as well as construction of a 30,000 SF addition to the Hoskins Center to serve […]

More Space For Eagles Fans And Their Kids During the 2013 offseason, this expansion project increased Paulson Stadium’s total capacity to 25,000 and moved all of Georgia Southern University’s football facilities into a single state-of-the-art Football Operations Center. At the time the plan was originally announced, the 57,000 SF facility was intended to be FCS […]

A New 650-Bed Suite Style Residential Hall The Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) recently completed the construction of its new 650-bed suite style residential hall that occupies the area between Victory Drive/44th Street and Montgomery Street/Barnard Street, totaling approximately 2.75 acres. The project consists of multiple, multi-story residence hall buildings that include 4-bed […]

A Technical Education for the Twenty First Century Hussey Gay Bell served as the design partner for TCSG’s Southeastern Technical College Building 2 Academic Building Renovation project. Led by Macon-based builder, Chris R. Sheridan & Co., the $3.56 million design-build project featured the renovation of approximately 38,375 square feet. The newly renovated 39,593 square foot […]

A New Home for National Leaders in Varsity Equestrian The Design-Bid-Build project consists of the design and construction of a new women’s varsity team equestrian clubhouse. The clubhouse will be approximately 7,000 SF and located at the 109-acre UGA Equestrian Complex in Bishop, Georgia. The facility will be comprised of an entry lobby with a […]

Wando High School, Mt. Pleasant, SC The project consisted of a 433,121 SF new high school to accommodate 3,100 students. For the project, Hussey Gay Bell provided site/civil engineering including paving, grading, and drainage infrastructure, as well as utility design for sanitary sewer and water distribution; and coordinated traffic, Geotech, parking, archaeological, wetlands, and environmental […]

Georgia Southern’s New Kinesiology Research Laboratories Located on Georgia Southern’s main campus in Statesboro, Georgia, the Hanner Fieldhouse complex is comprised of numerous facilities shared between athletics and university programming including a 4,235 seat multipurpose arena, support facilities and a long-vacated and under-utilized former pool facility that was infilled in 2008 on the northwest side […]

An Equally Caring Elementary School, Now in Operation Hussey Gay Bell is the Architect & Engineer of Record for this new, $24M, 950-student elementary school of approximately 130,000 SF. Core spaces were sized to accommodate 1,000 FTE.  Located on the same campus as Jenkins High School, Juliette Low also houses Savannah’s severe and profound population […]

Fort Stewart Elementary School (Kessler Elementary School) Project consisted of the construction of a new pre-kindergarten through 6th grade elementary school to serve 400 students, which was required at Fort Stewart to accommodate enrollment increases due to new housing being built for the Army’s Residential Communities Initiative. The new elementary school is a one-story 80,788 […]

Signature High School Project Continues Path of Excellence 20 Years Later Hussey Gay Bell provided architectural and engineering design services for this $17.6 million state-of-the-art High School.  The 200,000 SF, two-story school mimics Savannah’s historic architecture and is fronted by a Savannah Square. It was designed for 1,750 students and contains a Legal, Business and […]

Symbol of Local Resolve to Rise Above School’s Problematic Past Hussey Gay Bell is the Architect and Engineer of Record for the new Otis J. Brock, III Elementary School, named in honor of the late Otis J. Brock, III – a Savannah native who served as the Savannah-Chatham County Public School System’s Chief Operating Officer.  […]

A New Auditorium On Its Way To Cedar Grove High School The Cedar Grove High School campus consists of one main building located on 25.56 acres at 2360 River Wood Road in Ellenwood, Georgia. The original campus construction was completed in 1972, with two (2) additions to the main school building completed in 1975 and […]

A 169,000 SF Phased Renovation For Barrow County Apalachee High School is Hussey Gay Bell’s first project with the Barrow County School System. This comprehensive renovation and modification will encompass 169,000 SF and include every component of the existing campus that will remain in operation during renovations. Phased over two summers, and continuing throughout the […]

High School Challenges Overcome with a Phased Approach The Alfred E. Beach High School serves as an excellent example to illustrate Hussey Gay Bell’s experience with complex, phased high school education projects. This school is a replacement facility for the existing 50-year-old Beach High. The replacement school was originally located on the same site as […]

A 1960s Building Turned 21st Century Educational Facility Built in 1965, Gamble Hall is one of the original four classroom buildings constructed in the mid-1960s when the former Armstrong campus moved from downtown to Savannah’s south side. The main goal of this project was to renovate this building to bring it into the 21st century […]

Let them play and run together. Let them feel and learn life together. In 2016, the Design+Build team of Hill Construction/McMillan Pazdan Smith was selected to plan, design, and construct a new District 2 stadium to be used as the home stadium for both Wando High School and the new Lucy Beckham High School. Meeting […]

Northbrook Middle School & Northbrook Center Northbrook Middle School:  This middle school was completed in 2014 and accommodates 950 students with a core capacity of 2,000 students.  It is unusual because it is located inside an existing distribution warehouse.  The owner was able to take advantage of cost savings by reusing an existing building that […]

A New 600-Student, 100,000 SF Facility Led by architectural firm Stevens & Wilkinson in conjunction with local, WBE firm, Red Iron Architects, project scope consists of the design and construction of a new 600-student Center for Advanced Studies on the site where the Attaway-Heinsohn Stadium across East Montague Avenue from the high school will be […]

Mercer University Spearman C. Godsey Science Center, Macon, Georgia: Learning Labs in Motion Designer of Record, Hussey Gay Bell, led the planning and A/E services for this $44M project – the largest capital expenditure in the University’s history –which consisted of design and construction of a new, 4-story state-of-the-art teaching and research facility.  The facility features […]

An 28,388 SF Overhaul for OFTC The Design-Build team of Hussey Gay Bell/Garbutt Construction provided full design and construction services for this project. Project scope consisted of the extensive renovation of the North Campus main building to create a Student Affairs Center featuring an Administrative Services Area, an improved Bookstore and Student Center and general-purpose […]

Renovation S.T.E.A.Ms Ahead Built in 1954, the original eight classroom school building remains in use today, and is part of Hussey Gay Bell’s comprehensive renovation of the 123,200 SF facility to serve as GCPS’s S.T.E.A.M academy. Coleman Middle School is fitted with the latest technology and infrastructure that will accommodate an ever-expanding and modernizing curriculum […]