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Provo City School District Board of Education members toured the new Rock Canyon Elementary School on Aug. 1, 2016, ahead of its opening that fall.

Braley Dodson, Daily Herald

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Provo City School District Board of Education members toured the new Sunset View Elementary School Monday afternoon. The new school will be open this fall.

Braley Dodson, Daily Herald

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The rebuilt Rock Canyon and Sunset View elementary schools are almost ready for students.

The Provo City School District schools, located at the same sites as the old schools of the same name, were toured Monday by members of the Provo City School District Board of Education.

“Besides all the infrastructure improvements, from seismic codes to mechanic and electrical and technology infrastructure, to general safety improvements, you can’t compare these buildings to the old ones,” said Mark Wheeler, director of facilities and maintenance for the district.

Sunset View is located at 525 S. 1600 West and Rock Canyon is located at 2405 N. 650 East.

The budgets for Rock Canyon and Sunset View, as per the bids, were $14.4 million and $13.6 million, respectively. The projects were funded through the district’s most recent bond.

The two schools have the same floor plans but have different color schemes, including using different colors of rock and having different eaves shapes over the main entrances.

But it’s also what students can’t see that makes a large difference from the old schools to the new ones.

“The heating, the air conditioning, the electrical and the technology upgrades, to me, is just incredible, coming from where we are coming from,” Wheeler said.

Classroom lights in the new school automatically adjust as the sun rises to conserve energy, and each school has a computer lab that can be divided into two labs. The stages in the lunchrooms, instead of being space rarely used, can also be used as classrooms.

Classrooms for grades first through fifth are 930 square feet, while kindergarten and sixth-grade classrooms are larger, at about 1,100 square feet.

A new entrance tacked on to Sunset View in 2007 will be kept and used by the district, although it’s currently unknown what services will be housed there.