Prince George’s County Public Schools (PGCPS) has partnered with the Prince George’s County Education & Community Partners (PGCECP) to deliver six new schools by July 2023 as part of an Alternative Construction Finance Program. The initiative—called Blueprint Schools—will address aging facilities and deliver benefits to students, educators, and the wider Prince George’s County community through a creative design-build-finance-maintain delivery model.

Through Blueprint Schools, PGCECP will build, design, and maintain five middle schools and one K-8 school, ensuring a fast delivery of state-of-the-art facilities to a community in which half of its schools are over 50 years old. Throughout the engagement with the prospective partners, B&D provided technical procurement, program, and design advisory services, leading to a successful financial close in December 2020. As part of the effort, B&D’s Public Communications & Engagement team also delivered essential leadership through Program branding, development of a comprehensive Communications and Engagement plan, community engagement through canvasing, website strategy and development of a Q&A website, event planning and coordination, report development and management, newsletter development and coordination, and meeting coordination and facilitation.

B&D’s program management and engagement team will continue to serve as trusted advisor to PGCPS as Blueprint Schools progresses into the design and construction phases.