Fife, WA

Fife High School STEAM Building

Markets
Services
Features
Courtyards
Drainage
Irrigation
On-site Water Main Extension
Paving Modifications
Pedestrian Paving
Planting
Plazas
Site Amenities
Site Grading Plans
Awards & Recognition
2025
AIA Merit Award – Civic Design Awards
AIA Southwest Washington
Facility supporting science, technology, engineering, art, and math curriculums.

AHBL provided civil engineering and landscape architecture services for the new 31,000 SF STEAM Center of Innovation at Fife High School. The facility, located west of the existing school building along 20th Street East, features 11 new teaching stations to support the science, technology, engineering, art, and math curriculum. The project includes a new central utility plant designed to meet current and future campus needs. Civil engineering services encompass drainage and site grading plans, private sanitary side sewer connection, on-site water main extension, and paving modifications between the existing high school and the new STEAM Center. Landscape architecture services included planting, irrigation, site amenities, pedestrian paving, courtyards, and plazas, ensuring compliance with the City of Fife’s Green Factor landscaping requirements.

 

Teaming Partners

  • Owner: Fife Public Schools
  • Architect: McGranahanPBK
  • Contractor: Cornerstone Construction

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