Celebration Marks Another Successful Collaboration for Long-Time District Partners Quattrocchi Kwok Architects and Blach Construction

Half Moon Bay, Calif., Nov. 19, 2020 – When students and teachers are welcomed back to school premises, Cabrillo Unified School District (CUSD) will celebrate the opening of its new kindergarten triplex at Hatch Elementary School. The three buildings, totaling approximately 9,200 square feet of modern indoor and ou...

Contractor-Architect Team Blach Construction and Quattrocchi Kwok Architects Complete Multiple Folia Projects; Introduce New One-Story Prefabricated Building

QKA Principal Mark Quattrocchi offers his insight and experience on pre-engineered classroom buildings: the history, efficiency and flexibility of prefabricated elements that maintain the high-performance design of traditionally constructed classrooms. The School Construction News article also provides a case study of QKA’s own prefabricated building solution, Folia.

Design-Build Team Blach Construction and Quattrocchi Kwok Architects Invented Folia to Efficiently Deliver Quality, Cost-Effective and Customizable Structures

SUNNYVALE/CUPERTINO, Calif. (Oct. 1, 2018) – Construction has commenced on Fremont Union High School District’s (FUHSD) Educational Options project, which will provide two new multi-use buildings for t...

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’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.

MORGAN HILL, CALIF. — June 7, 2017 —  At its monthly Board of Education meeting last night, Morgan Hill Unified School District (MHUSD) Board of Trustees unanimously awarded Quattrocchi Kwok Architects (QKA) and Blach Construction Company (Blach) with a $39.5 million design-build project to redevelop Britton Middle School. This will serve as a flagship project for the voter-approved Measur...

The Folia system uses pre-engineered components to deliver school buildings at 20% less cost.

Building Design + Construction Great Solutions | August 23, 2016 | John Caulfield, Senior Editor

The San Carlos (Calif.) School District was in the midst of implementi...

Folia, A New Classroom Solution, Offers Shorter Schedule Through DSA Pre-Check Approval