A new $23 million high school

in Fayette County will open for its first students by the fall of 2004,

the result of the Fayette County Board of Education accepting the low

bid for the project Monday night.

Whitewater High School will

be built by Kajima Construction Services, which submitted the lowest bid

among the nine construction companies vying to build the school. The new

school will include an auditorium, the board decided. [Earlier editions

mistakenly reported otherwise.]

Kajima's bid of $23,300,000

came in under the $24,299,310 that the Board of Education had budgeted

for construction. Kajima was the company that provided the constuction

services for the first phase of McIntosh High School in Peachtree City.

The county's fifth high school

will be constructed south of Fayetteville off Ga. Highway 85, in the south-central

part of the county.

There were six alternates in

the construction documents and all but one of them will be completed.

These include a guaranteed delivery date of June 21, 2004, providing Siemens

energy management system, providing a "Best" access system,

providing a Notifier fire alarm and smoke detection system and providing

a irrigation system and sod for the practice fields. An auditorium is

included in the original construction phase, Superintendent John DeCotis

said.

DeCotis said he was pleased

with the bid and the company.

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