(Photos by Peer Canvas)

MAINE WEST HIGH SCHOOL: DES PLAINES, ILLINOIS

When a school district outgrows its current space, a renovation project can’t happen soon enough. To accommodate a school district’s need for space at one of its high school buildings, approximately 42,000 square feet of insulated composite precast concrete wall panels were used to create a new, state-of-the-art field house for Maine West High School. The field house includes four basketball courts, an indoor track, a long jump area, and a batting cage that drops down from the ceiling, which will be enjoyed primarily by the school’s athletic teams, physical education classes and rented by athletic feeder programs.

PRECAST ELEMENTS

110 Wall Panels (40,103 square feet)

PARTNERS

GC: Pepper Construction Company
Architect & EOR: Wight & Company