A new Malibu Middle School building (known as Building E) is in the works, with a study session scheduled for the Thursday, March 16 Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District Board of Education meeting in Malibu. The item is agendized to begin at 6:30 p.m. Thursday.
Rather than an earlier plan to modernize Building E, district staff announced plans to replace the building in order to facilitate window and door replacement to remove PCB contaminants — aspects not taken into consideration in the original 2012 plan.
The new proposed building would be made of shipping containers, which sources from the district claim will allow for speedier permitting and assembling than a traditionally constructed building.
The Malibu subcommittee of the district’s facility advisory committee, according to statements released last week, “reimagined a replacement building that would be better suited to classroom space needed for 21st century learning, access, and campus space and flow.”
The team “determined that a two-story, single-side access building with doors facing the quad would achieve the design and flow to improve access and student learning. While this would increase the height, the footprint would decrease, creating more quad space and the two-story building would complement the new library /admin building and the existing two-story building D.”
According to a timeline provided by district spokespeople, the plans would go before the California Coastal Commission during its May 10-12 meeting in San Diego.