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TORRANCE, CALIF. — Barnhart Balfour Beatty has begun construction of the $22 million J.H. Hull Middle School, a 61,000-square-foot complex located at 2080 W. 231st St. in Torrance. Slated for completion before September 2011, the five-building development will consist of classrooms, a technology center, administrative offices, a food-service facility and cafeteria, a gymnasium, basketball and volleyball courts, and soccer and baseball fields. Funded by a $265 million bond program passed in November 2008 and designed by Irvine, Calif.-based IBI Group Architects, the. J.H. Hull Middle School is the first new school to be built in the Torrance Unified School District in 40 years.