Education

The seasoned professionals at JONESPLAN have significantly enhanced various educational campuses by improving both functionality and aesthetics. Our extensive portfolio encompasses enhancements to sports and recreational facilities, community spaces, outdoor educational areas, and overall campus infrastructure. Operating as both a General Contractor and subcontractor, in collaboration with clients and strategic partners, JONESPLAN consistently delivers high-quality improvements, spanning from early childhood centers to universities, marked by reliability, consistency, and accolades.

The external representation of a campus holds paramount importance, symbolizing the school's mission and serving as the initial impression for the public. JONESPLAN's portfolio focuses on refining spaces integral to daily campus life. Trusted by organizations, we've revitalized community areas, by erecting outdoor amphitheaters, integrating elaborate water features, constructing communal gathering spots, and pioneering outdoor classrooms through our design and build partnership with Good Fieldwork.

While our projects have covered diverse campus domains, our expertise in athletic facilities stands out. JONESPLAN has orchestrated ground-up constructions and upgrades for various sports and recreation venues. Our portfolio spans a wide range of athletics, from football, soccer, and baseball synthetic and natural turf fields, to track and field sports, to the golf course work for which we are best known. Our commitment lies in creating playing surfaces and amenities that optimize performance, reduce injuries, and provide an exceptional experience for players and spectators alike.

Beyond sports, our extensive outdoor construction proficiency positions JONESPLAN as an ideal choice for comprehensive campus undertakings. Our repertoire encompasses vast landscaping efforts, incorporating seeding, sodding, large tree installations, and extensive plant bedding. We've executed comprehensive drainage and irrigation systems across sprawling campus areas, installed extensive pathways and specialty pavements, managed intricate lighting systems, and incorporated diverse amenities. These seemingly modest yet pivotal enhancements play a pivotal role in fostering a welcoming atmosphere that beckons students, families, and friends to the institution, aligning with the institution's outreach mission.

JONESPLAN's enduring collaborations with educational clients, whether private institutions pursuing their objectives or public schools expanding their horizons, exemplify our unwavering dedication to the enduring success of educational establishments.

Projects of Note

  • Tulsa Educare

    The award-winning outdoor classrooms at 4 different campuses, designed and built by Jonesplan and their design partner Good Fieldwork, include 21 different nature-based learning environments. At Kendall-Whittier, three existing playgrounds were converted into outdoor classrooms with features that include a custom wooden boardwalk, musical instruments and heavy kid-friendly landscaping. The Hawthorne campus also reimagines typical playgrounds as outdoor classrooms, with features such as custom mud kitchens, stages, teepee tunnels and nature art areas and also includes a separate raised bed garden with child-size planters. The MacArthur campus is also a reconstruction from playground to custom outdoor classrooms for each of its seven separate existing playgrounds and adds a separate bike path area with multiple riding surfaces through a "city" of concrete towers, over a ramp and bridge, and through a tunnel. Lastly, the Celia Clinton campus includes six ground-up outdoor classrooms at their flagship headquarters. The classrooms include a courtyard for non-mobile infants, custom features throughout, kid-friendly landscaping, and a dedicated interactive water play and biking education area.

  • Holland Hall

    The Chapman Green is a dramatic landscape intended to build student connections in the outside environment. JONESPLAN completed both general landscaping and irrigation for the award-winning project. Sustainability-conscious and state-of-the-art systems were used including Rain Bird’s RWS system and commercial drip valves, and products intended for long life cycles like decomposed granite mulch were incorporated. Safety-consciousness was highlighted by using non-rusting aluminum edging and duckbill root ball anchoring kits. CU-structural Soil developed by Cornell University allowed trees to be designed into the paving, and high-end site amenities were incorporated into the landscape’s features.

  • Tulsa Technology Center (TTC)

    At TTC Owasso, a large recirculating water feature, a gathering plaza, and a five-tiered double-radius amphitheater were constructed to encourage social interactions at the existing campus. The water feature is a formal upper basin and fountain that leads through a limestone and river rock stream with multiple falls to a lower pond with three fountains. The gathering plaza includes an amphitheater built of segmental block retaining walls and decorative concrete bench seating, and formal placement of large-caliper cypress trees in structural CU-soil. Full landscape and irrigation of the entire site, 23 acres of sod, and multiple site amenities throughout the property were included. The TTC Sand Springs project was a large landscape, irrigation, and courtyard water feature project for a new Tulsa Technology Center facility. The central focus was the courtyard water feature consisting of a natural-edged flagstone surround with a decorative stone stream bed. Basalt columns were sourced for vertical water fountains, and a stone slab bridge, and limestone seating boulders were installed. The fountain system included lighting, recirculation, water level controls, and an in-ground mechanical vault to house the pump systems. The landscaping and irrigation scope included 128 trees, one which was a large specimen live oak for the courtyard, and a 16-zone irrigation system with extension sleeving for parking lot islands and courtyard plantings.

  • Northeast Technology Center

    Description goThe Northeast Tech Pryor Entry Pond project required the reconstruction of an existing pond at the main entry onto the campus. Selected demolition at the pond's segmented retaining wall and apron was required in the areas that it was failing, and construction of a new concrete retaining wall and apron with a native sandstone veneer and cap was installed in its place. A 3-tiered concrete fountain structure was poured at the mouth of the pond to recirculate water, and lighting was added to accent the water at night.

  • Otoe-Missouria Daycare Center

    Two outdoor classrooms were designed and built by JONESPLAN and their design partner, Good Fieldwork, and include features that represent the seven animals in the Otoe-Missouria creation story. Custom features include a tumble hill that leads up a beaver's dam climbing feature and to an eagle's nest, an elk rack climbing element and a pigeon perch climbing platform. Also included are a bear den built into the side of a grassy hill, a wooden shade structure, a water mister and bucket filler, grassland prairie raised beds, and other custom elements.