BERKELEY – New windows are helping Central Regional High School look different – and hopefully students will feel different as well.
The cafeteria, auxiliary gym, guidance office, 27 classrooms, and other offices and hallways were improved by the new windows, district Business Administrator Kevin O’Shea said.
In addition to being an aesthetic improvement, they will also help in keeping the keeping in heat – or air conditioning – depending on the season. That means they will be more energy efficient.
The new windows are commercial grade and come from the Architectural Windows Manufacturing Corporation, he said.
“In July of 2022 we awarded the bid (to make the upgrades) to Garozzo-Scimeca Construction of Williamstown, NJ. The $3.5 million project began in April,” O’Shea said. More than 90% of the project was funded using federal Covid funds.
“The project was a bit unique in that we not only had to replace the windows, the entire wall had to be replaced because it was a window-wall system. So the project entailed replacing the wall, including the heating/cooling univents, as well as the windows,” O’Shea said.
However, the germ of the project started when the other half of the high school had received new windows in 2012.
