San Diego Unified School District

In 2013, Gafcon Management was selected to provide project management, construction management, and staff augmentation services for San Diego County’s largest school district, San Diego Unified School District (SDUSD).

We also collaborated with District consultants to develop a sustainability implementation study that reviewed the District’s 13 “Dream Big Ideas” and the implementation costs, resulting in the District’s approval to proceed. Our team assisted with writing several chapters of the Council for Greater City Schools report, “Reversing the Cycle of Deterioration in the Nation’s Public School Buildings.”

As the climate continues to change, SDUSD decided to implement heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) improvements for 2,000 of the District’s hottest classrooms to improve the educational environment. Gafcon Management developed the plan to accelerate air-conditioning installation—expediting architectural and engineering assessments, providing planning and design development, and installing units during off hours.

Additional services include communications and outreach, project controls, estimating, engineering, security assessments, master planning, construction management, oversight of the District’s i21 Interactive Classroom Initiative, and development of the District’s web-based contractor prequalification application software.