BD+C Executive Editor Rob Cassidy talks with the team behind the award-winning Cooper River Center for Advanced Studies, a Career|Technical Education high school in Charleston County, S.C. The team includes: Jeff Borowy, PE, COO, Charleston County (S.C.) School District; Emma Souder, AIA, NCARB, Owner, Red Iron Architects; Tim Williams, AIA, NCARB, Project Principal, SSOE | Stevens & Wilkinson.
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