Christian Education Leadership Academy
Catalyst Construction was privately selected in early 2013 by the Nahey Charitable Foundation to be the Program Leader and Construction Manager for the new Christian Education Leadership Academy (CELA) located in Pewaukee, WI. Catalyst spearheaded the entire design team building process for ownership as well as managed the project’s site, civil, septic, and other logistical elements. The 170,000 square foot educational academy is specifically designed and built to integrate clean sheet educational practices with state-of-the-art facilities. Project Highlights 170,000 square foot Christian education academy constructed on 55 acres and completed in approximately 10 months. Amenities include 850-seat chapel [...]
Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design
Catalyst Construction completed demolition and renovation of MIAD’s 4th Floor into new classroom, breakout, workshop, and office space. Project Details PROJECT Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design LOCATION Milwaukee, WI SECTOR Office, Education ARCHITECT RINKA COMPLETION DATE August 2020 WEBSITE → See the Results
Luther High School
Catalyst Construction has completed building a new 36,000sf Performing Arts Center & Classroom Addition for Luther High School. Interior renovations of Luther High School’s current classrooms, weight room, and locker rooms were done as well. Project Details PROJECT Luther High School LOCATION Onalaska, WI SECTOR Education ARCHITECT Excel Engineering, Inc. COMPLETION DATE April 2009 WEBSITE → See the Results
St. Matthew’s Lutheran Church & School
St. Matthew’s new complex on Brown Street includes an elementary school for more than 300 students, with the possibility of adding a sanctuary and worship space in the future. The daycare center has space for roughly 85 students, ages 6 months to preschool. The building is 56,240 square feet, and includes 11 classrooms, a full-size gym, library, a science/art room and seven childcare rooms. Project Details PROJECT St. Matthews Church and School LOCATION Oconomowoc, WI SECTOR Education ARCHITECT Groth Design Group COMPLETION DATE February 2015 WEBSITE → See the Results [...]
St. Marcus Lutheran School
Catalyst Construction, as Construction Manager for St. Marcus’ 55,000 square foot school addition, assisted St. Marcus with fund raising, tax credit identification, and finance coordination, all services that are not traditionally provided by Construction Managers. Over the past 12 years, Catalyst has successfully completed multiple projects for St. Marcus. The partnership has included the original Main Campus church expansion project (approx. $4.5M), the subsequent North Campus (featured here) which involved ground-up construction of a new school building (approx. $4.8M) and which was completed in early 2015, and the Harambee campus. As construction manager for St. Marcus’s 55,000 square foot [...]
Rocketship Southside Community Prep
Catalyst Construction renovated an abandoned warehouse into a charter school. Work included 27,000 square feet of renovation space along with an 8,000 square foot gymnasium addition. Project Details PROJECT Rocketship Southside Community Prep LOCATION Milwaukee, WI SECTOR Education ARCHITECT Quorum Architects COMPLETION DATE August 2013 WEBSITE → See the Results
Kettle Moraine Lutheran High School
Catalyst Construction completed work in the spring of 2013 on the Performing Arts Center at KML High School. As Catalyst’s first project involving a performing arts component, the team was responsible for coordinating all of the project’s design-build MEPs and managing the audio-visual design-build element including theatrical rigging, staging, and lighting. Working within a relatively tight budget, Catalyst’s work on the Kettle Moraine Lutheran High School and Performing Arts Center also involved the team bringing the project architect and civil engineer on board. Project Highlights Catalyst’s first project involving a performing arts component. The project came with several [...]
Crown of Life Lutheran Church & School
The Crown of Life Lutheran Church and School project in Hubertus, Wisconsin, consisted of adding 28,000 square feet to their existing building, an addition that included a new sanctuary, fellowship hall, and a new classroom. The project took full advantage of Catalyst’s Time & Talent program and was able to engage a substantial group of volunteers that logged between 10,000-15,000 total man hours. Builders for Christ came onboard and helped throughout the construction phase and did the majority of the rough carpentry, roofing, siding, window install, and finish carpentry. Because of the level of volunteer help on the project, [...]
HOPE Christian Schools
Catalyst Construction built HOPE Fortis which was a new 15,280 square foot 2-story school situated on 1.4 acres. The project included minority participation. The goal of HOPE Christian Schools is to find distressed properties in underprivileged communities and work with partners like Catalyst to renovate those properties into Christian preparatory school campuses as a boon to the communities they serve. As a leader in Christian education, HOPE plans its campus projects for location in some of the most challenging areas in the city of Milwaukee and, more recently, in other areas across the country. These projects are often the [...]
