Formerly an elementary school, this 15,000 sq. ft. building houses Day Care and Head Start programs administered by the Butler Township Board of Supervisors. With five large classrooms upstairs and two smaller ones downstairs, a gymnasium, toilet rooms, office space, storage and a kitchen, portions of the building are used year-round.

Their existing boiler was failing as it reached the end of its useful life. The client believedthe boiler was rusting out because of water that periodically ran across the boiler room floor, and that the new boiler should be raised off the floor on an elevated housekeeping pad. The project also involved reconstruction of a damaged interior wall in the 10-ton coalbunker, which would require the coalbunker to be emptied.

Emptying the coalbunker revealed heavy water leakage though an exterior wall during every major rainstorm. The perceived problem was not accurate; the internal workings of the boiler were not failing because of water on the boiler room floor. The real problem was excessively wet coal being delivered through the boiler feed system. In lieu of providing a pad under the coal boiler, which would have made the heavy ashbins difficult to remove from the boiler base, the project was revised to provide a raised platform inside the bunker so that dry coal can be provided through the feed system.