The Coachella Valley Unified School District is in the planning stages to rebuild its oldest school in the district. Built in 1928, Palm View Elementary is celebrating its 90th year. The school will be home to about 800 students and will undergo a complete redesign and reconstruction. Asbestos issues plague ... Read More
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KNA Helps Students Advance the Art of Structural Engineering
For the ninth consecutive year, KNA has awarded a Senior Project Grant to students in the Architectural Engineering (ARCE) program at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. The official ceremony was held on June 7th at the university. The annual award is given to students who have the ability to advance the art of ... Read More
A Great Act to Follow: La Habra High School Performing Arts Center
Students and faculty of La Habra High School are waiting in the wings for their new performing arts facility to be completed, with a scheduled completion date in mid-2019. Currently students are traveling over 20 miles to showcase their performances. Not ideal, as you can imagine. Ruhnau Clarke Architects are ... Read More
How Long Must Students and Teachers Have to Wait?
Remember when Prop. 51 was voted in by California’s citizens back in November 2016? Well, it appears that Governor Brown is still holding the purse strings for the state to match the bond funds. This is creating a huge backlog of shovel-ready projects. As of today, there’s $3.1 billion in projects awaiting ... Read More
It’s the Who’s Who for K-12 Design in California: The 39th Annual CASH Conference and Awards
The most important conferences in California for K-12 education design and construction projects is held in February each year. Hosted by California Coalition for Adequate School Housing, known as CASH, the event is attended by architects, engineering and other A/E/C companies. This year’s conference was ... Read More
Building New Life into the Anaheim Community
Experiencing the results of a successful project is one of the most rewarding aspects of the work we do. To witness how people enjoy and utilize a space brings to light the results of the collaborative effort of the design team. Dougherty Architects designed the new Ponderosa Family Resource Center located ... Read More
KNA March Madness’ Win Passes to Sharp Shooter Andrea Schroeder
Each year KNA sports enthusiasts bounce into the traditional March Madness for some good competitive fun. Fourteen participated in this season’s team picks, with the winner going to KNA’s most recent hire, Andrea Schroeder. Taking the lead at the Final Four tournament, Andrea pulled ahead of several ... Read More
It’s Not Old School—It’s Elementary
Individual school districts and the state continue to improve the educational facilities throughout California. KNA Structural Engineers has established its reputation for designing educational facilities for more than twenty years. Architecture firms and schools districts continue to turn to KNA’s deep ... Read More
Together We Create the Best-of-Class Learning Environments
We are passionate about designing educational campuses and other facilities with two decades of award-winning projects. Architects, over 100 school districts and the Division of State Architect rely on KNA—we do our homework each and every day. Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the ... Read More
A Redesigned Elementary School Goes Desert Modern
As the community in Cathedral City continues to grow, the Palm Springs Unified School District saw the need to improve the Agua Caliente Elementary School to support its growing population. The current school located in the Dream Homes neighborhood was first built in 1961. From Baker Nowicki’s website: “A ... Read More