Spokane-based Lydig Construction Inc. has landed three jobs around the state with a combined value of $118 million.

The projects, which are in various stages of planning and construction, include a $75 million high school complex in Kirkland, a $35 million expansion of a detention center in Tacoma, and a $3 million gymnasium building for a middle school in Moses Lake, says Larry Swartz, Lydig's president.

The high school project will be a replacement for Lake Washington High School, at 12033 N.E. 80th, a few blocks east of Interstate 405, in east Kirkland, a suburb of Seattle.

Lydig has completed site work there and will begin construction in March, says Kevin Duffy, project manager at Lydig's Bellevue office.

The project involves two buildings with a total of about 215,000 square feet of floor space. One building will house classrooms, offices, and a performing arts center. The other will be a gym.

The gym is scheduled to be completed in the fall of 2010, and the school building is expected to be done the following fall, says David Zeitlin, the project manager for the school district.

The new school will have a capacity of about 1,250 students, up from its current capacity of about 1,100. It will be located directly south of the current building.

"The school was originally built in 1949 and has since had three major additions and countless minor remodels," Zeitlin says.

The project will be funded through a $436 million bond approved by voters in 2006 to replace or renovate 11 schools in the Lake Washington School District.

In Tacoma, Lydig is working with Integrus Architecture PS, of Spokane, on permitting for a design-build project that involves construction of a 104,000-square-foot expansion of the Northwest Detention Center, at 1623 E. J Street, east of downtown, Swartz says. The privately-owned jail is operated by Boca Raton, Fla.-based GEO Group Inc. under a contract with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

The project would include housing for 575 people, to bring the facility's total capacity to 1,575 detainees. Lydig also built the original 147,000-square-foot facility which opened in 2006, he says.

Meanwhile, Lydig has started construction of a $3 million gymnasium at Chief Moses Middle School, in the Moses Lake School District, Swartz says.

The 12,000-square-foot gym, which is scheduled to be completed in August, will have a full-size basketball court and some spectator seating, says Mark Johnson, the school's principal.

NAC/Architecture designed the project.

The school has another gym on the campus, but needs a second gym to accommodate school and community sports activities, Johnson says.

Chief Moses, located at 1111 E. Nelson Road, on the east side of Moses Lake, has about 950 students.