TAMPA, Fla. — The Hillsborough County School District is working on eight major projects at schools this summer, in its seventh year of the voter approved half-cent sales tax to make improvements at public schools. 

Hillsborough High School is seeing one of the biggest projects, a $16 million rebuilding of the entire school’s HVAC system.


What You Need To Know

  • Hillsborough High School is having its entire HVAC system replaced over the summer

  • $16 million project funded by the half-cent sales tax referendum voters approved in November 2018

  • Contractors replacing air handlers, pipes, mechanical equipment, roof vents and relocated the energy plant that powers the system

  • The new HVAC system will be more energy efficient, saving the school district money long term 

Principal Dr. Kevin Gordon says contractors started the project back in December, removing air handlers from classrooms to make way for new equipment being installed this summer.

He says the entire system is being rebuilt, from air handlers and mechanical equipment, to piping, roof vents and a relocation of the energy plant that runs the system.

“Being able to reinvest in these buildings with that half cent money that we get, means we will be able to maintain these buildings for years and decades to come,” said Jordan.

Complete date of the HVAC project at Hillsborough High School is set for the end of July.

All projects at Hillsborough County Schools over the summer will be completed by August, when the new school year begins.