The Concord Middle School Building Committee report COURTESY OF CONCORD MIDDLE SCHOOL BUILDING COMMITTEE Committee advances project to schematic design Members of the Concord Middle School Building Committee voted to adopt a revised space summary plan to advance the project to the schematic design phase at their business meeting on May 6. The new space summary recommendation removed dedicated spaces for the maker space and alternate physical education space while increasing the size of the auditorium to 420 seats and revising the size of the gymnasium to accommodate two 74-foot basketball practice cross courts within the width required by the single Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association regulation sized main basketball court. The vote also included language which calls for a review of the building design to seek opportunities to simplify and lower total project cost. The educational programmatic elements that are associated with the maker space and alternate physical education space will remain in the educational plan but will occur in other spaces in the proposed building.