Hurricane Intermediate School
2007 Tilt-Up Achievement Award Winner :: Education Division
Submitted by: Hughes General Contractors
Before they were selected for the Hurricane Intermediate School project, Hughes General Contractors had already set an impressive precedent in southern Utah’s Washington County School District. Their integrally colored Tilt-Up buildings, designed to complement the area’s sandstone hills and red soil, had already won three TCA awards.
For this project, Hughes relied on the same theme, but set the 134,000-sqare-foot structure apart by using different depths of sandblasting to create texture and color variations on individual panels, and also cast a 30-foot-long image of a jaguar (the school’s mascot) into walls in a commons area using polycarbonate molds.
Other notable features include aluminum joint covers designed to prevent vandalism to the caulking, as well as curved, hanging lintel panels supported by cast-in-place concrete columns.
To meet the project’s demanding summer construction schedule, Hughes received permission from the city of Hurricane to start work prior to the 6 a.m. noise ordinance, with some pours starting as early as 2 a.m. to avoid scorching summer temperatures.
TCA Member Participants
- Hughes General Contractors (North Salt Lake, Utah)
- Role: General Contractor, Tilt-Up Contractor
- BHB Consulting Engineers (Salt Lake City, Utah)
- Role: Engineer
- Dayton Superior Corporation (Miamisburg, Ohio)
- Products: Lifting hardware, Bond breaker
- Solomon Colors (Springfield, Illinois)
- Products: Paint
- Concrete Forms Services ()
- Products: Forming materials
The purpose of the TCA Awards Program is to recognize outstanding site cast Tilt-Up structures and advances in technology, products and methods used in the Tilt-Up industry. For more information on the program, submittal requirements and deadline dates, please refer to the awards submittal information page.
If you have further questions, please contact Jim Baty by email or by phone at (319) 895-6911.
Hurricane Intermediate School
383 South Mall Drive
Hurricane, UT 84790
- Tallest Panel:
- 33'-10½"
- Largest Panel:
- 908 sq ft
- Heaviest Panel:
- 134,000 lbs
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