Alaska High School to Receive New Elevator

A new elevator will be installed at Wrangell High School in Wrangell, Alaska, next summer, the Wrangell Sentinel reports. Demolition will begin toward the end of the current school year, and construction is expected to be complete for the first day of school in August 2025. The school’s elevator, which was installed in 1987, has not been used since March 2020 when an oil leak was discovered. The new project “removes the existing elevator and controls and replaces the system with a new elevator and controls, utilizing the existing hoist way,” according to an official report. The contract for the project was awarded to Sitka, Alaska-based McG Constructors.