Corning-Painted Post Area School District

The restrooms in the dated buildings had been untouched since the late 1990s. The consolidation would double the student population of the high school and add almost 30% more students to the middle school, a total of approximately 4,800 students in grades K through 12.

To provide a more hygienic, convenient restroom, it was important that Hunt Engineers, Architects & Land Surveyors, P.C., the consulting and design firm behind the Corning-Painted Post Central School District renovation project, convinced facility owners to update restrooms equipped with over 20-year-old parts. “The buildings were last updated right before sensor-operated equipment became popular,” says Greg Barr, PE, Principal, Director of ME/P, at HUNT. “At first, the building owner didn’t see the value in automatic. They had the Sloan Regal® manual flushometers installed in other buildings for years. We showed the client the history of reliability they had with Sloan sensor products.” The building owner ultimately followed their recommendation to install battery-operated sensor flushometers.