Blue Valley High School #4

Blue Valley School District's new $40 million high school includes a comprehensive athletic field complex. The 62-acre complex contains competition venues for track, soccer and baseball along with practice fields for soccer, football, baseball and softball.

The steeply rolling site with a shallow soil profile over native limestone presented significant design constraints. To mitigate the cost of rock removal, JBC designed a shallow profile sand-plate reinforced with turf stabilizers. This technology allowed for a shallower undercut of native bedrock, which lowered costs significantly and made it possible to install a modified rootzone for all of the fields.

As a result, the School District is able to provide 12 high-performance sand-based athletic surfaces for a cost comparable to native soil athletic fields.