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McKissick Associates is a family-owned firm providing architectural and design services with specialization in educational facility design & planning, historic preservation and sustainable "green" design.
McKissick Associates
Simonton Mansion
317 North Front Street
Harrisburg, PA 17101
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tel: (717) 238-6810
fax: (717) 238-6830
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Paula Mann, Marketing Coordinator
pmann@mckissickassociates.com
McKissick Associates
Piedmont Leaf Lofts
401 East 4th Street, Suite 203
Winston-Salem, NC 27101
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tel: (336) 722-6152
fax: (336) 722-6192
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David Watkins, Office Manager
dwatkins@mckissickassociates.com
McKissick Associates has been retained to design the new Lycoming County Career and Technology Center. The proposed center will be located on the campus of the East Lycoming School District in Hughesville, PA. When completed, the new facility will provide vocational and technology curriculum opportunities for high school and adult students in six North Central Pennsylvania school districts that have previously relied upon itinerant educational programs located at various school districts.
The school districts involved in the Lycoming County Career and Technology Center are: East Lycoming; Loyalsock Township; Montoursville; Muncy; South Williamsport; and Warrior Run. Curriculum options for students of the Center include: Building Construction and Maintenance; Child Care; Computer Technology; Drafting and Design; Health Occupations; Hospitality; Landscape and Forestry; Power and Transportation; and Protective Services.
According to architect Vern L. McKissick, AIA, principal of McKissick Associates, "Providing technology education and hands-on vocational programs to the middle one-third of the student body is a very important initiative. The programs housed in this new facility will serve students preparing to enter the workforce, where once a traditional high school education would suffice, but now a post-graduate education is needed." He added, "These programs help to prepare the student for whom a traditional four-year program isn't necessary to gain employment in Pennsylvania."
Formerly known as the Lycoming County Career Consortium, the new Lycoming County Career and Technology Center will be delivered in a unique construction contracting format by incorporating an ESCO (Energy Savings Contracting Organization) to augment funding from the Pennsylvania Department of Education. Harrisburg-based McClure Company, in coordination with PPL Energy Holdings LLC, will pay for, and lease back, various portions of the Center's mechanical and electrical systems, using energy savings to cover installation costs. With the construction cost savings from the use of the ESCO, the Center will be able to provide additional program space and equipment.
Having completed more than a dozen vocational projects for Pennsylvania school districts since 1985, Vern McKissick and firm associates recently designed and oversaw the renovation and expansion of the Cumberland Perry Area Vocational Technical School. The newly completed, McKissick-designed Wellsboro High School, Pennsylvania's first all "Green" high school, opened for the 2005-2006 school year with thirteen specialized programs which serve three rural school districts in the northern tier of Tioga County.
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