Education

Galax City Public Schools is filing suit against Vannoy Construction and architecture and engineering firm OWPR Inc. due to problems with leaking windows that were installed at Galax High School by subcontractor Bell Windows.
School officials said Bell Windows of Stokesdale, N.C., was the subcontractor and the responsibility of Vannoy and OWPR, so the suit is against those companies and not Bell.
The installation of the windows was part of an $8 million renovation to GHS, which began in 2007. The renovation was to be completed in 2008.

HILLSVILLE — Carroll County’s “clerk of the works,” who will watch over the phase III school construction projects, will begin his duties Monday.
A committee of five county and school officials sifted through 21 resumes to choose the clerk, or construction management official, who would coordinate activities at Carroll County High and Intermediate schools.

HILLSVILLE — Updates at two Carroll County schools will proceed without a much-desired auxiliary gym at the high school, for now.
Unable to get satisfactory cost savings by trimming other items from the Phase III construction plans, the Carroll School Board decided on Thursday to accept the low bids for just the basic work at the high and intermediate schools.
Low bidders were New Atlantic for the high school and Triad Builders for Carroll Intermediate.