QKA Principal Mark Quattrocchi was recently interviewed by School Planning & Management, offering his guidance and expertise on how to incorporate a school's outdoor elements to create a cohesive look and feel for a campus. With a little advance planning, the space and all the things like picnic tables and playground equipment between the buildings, do not have to be an afterthought.

With its project partners, QKA is proud to announce that the Silicon Business Journal has named Fremont Union High School District’s Science and Classroom Complex at Cupertino High School the "Innovation Project” in its annual Structures awards. The profile, “Prefab science project comes in early, under budget," attributes the innovation of our Folia building solution to the project’s completion in nearly half the amount of time projected and $3 million under budget.

QKA Principal John Dybczak recently had the opportunity to take Press Democrat Reporter Christi Warren on a tour of Cardinal Newman’s campus, giving her a first-hand look at the work that has already occurred since last October’s devastating wildfires and plans for new buildings to revitalize the campus.

The faculty and students are energized by the new campus design and mas...

FORESTVILLE, Calif., August 13, 2018 - West Sonoma County Union High School District (WSCUHSD) recently celebrated the groundbreaking of a new Performing Arts Center at El Molino High School. Designed by Quattrocchi Kwok Architects, the 9,000 square-foot facility is the first of its kind for the high school a...

QKA’s Folia building solution, developed with partners Blach Construction and Gregory P. Luth & Associates, was included in the San Francisco Business Times’ article, “The prefab revolution comes to commercial construction.” The article cites cost and time saving benefits as driving factors of the rising popularity of prefabricated structures, explaining how Folia has found success in the K-12 market, saving school districts millions of dollars and cutting construction time in half.

QKA Principal Aaron Jobson dives into four areas in which Collaborative for High Performance Schools (CHPS) criteria provide guidelines and accountability for school designers. Featuring the recent completion of Cupertino High School’s new classroom and science lab buildings as a case study, he explains how the project is on track to meet CHPS Designed Certification, featuring daylighting, vi...

The QKA-designed NGL Academy transformed a former Santa Rosa office building into a 6,000 square-foot nontraditional high school campus, utilizing a variety of interconnected learning spaces to support an array of learning styles, including student-driven exploration.

Recognizing a joint effort between QKA and international design firm Gensler, the districtwide Facilities Master Plan is the first facilities and technology improvement plan pursued across all of the college’s sites in 100 years.

QKA was onsite yesterday, along with district officials and project partners, at the groundbreaking ceremony of the future Lila Bringhurst Elementary School, a 1,100-student school that is a central part of South Fremont’s 111-acre new mixed-use urban development project in response to the city’s continued rapid growth.

QKA Principal Mark Quattrocchi offers his tips for increasing energy savings and making learning environments more comfortable and effective by implementing readily available energy-saving measures in school design. Read the fu...