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Adams Central Elementary School

  • View of Adams Central Elementary front entrance on a sunny day, showing a variety of surface treatments
  • up close detail of Adams Central Elementary exterior wall, showing a variety of surface textures including aggregate, brick and smooth concrete treatments
  • View of Adams Central Elementary exterior walkway toward and entrance, showing a variety of surface treatments
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  • Project Adams Central Elementary School
  • Location Hastings, Nebraska
  • Type of Precast CarbonCast High Performance Insulated Wall Panels
  • Architect DLR Group
  • Contractor Hampton Construction
  • Owner Adams Central School District
  • Awards AIA- NE Excellence in Masonry Design – Merit Award
  • Precaster Enterprise Precast Concrete

The Adams Central School District embraces a largely agricultural community drawing nearly 1,000 students from an area of more than 300 square miles.

The CarbonCast High Performance Insulated Wall Panel exterior design concept, inspired by local farmers who manipulated the Jeffersonian grid, creates texture through a variety of methods: thin brick parquet pattern reflects land use, thin brick stacked bond recalling planted crop rows, and voids representing farmer access to fields. The agricultural concept continues inside with repeated brick and precast grids intermixed with bright splashes of color. The 42,000 square feet of concrete wall panels include 12” and 14” thick load bearing panels that support the gravity roof loads as well as acting as shear walls for diaphragm loadings.

The 4” of continuous integral insulation provides an R-value that nearly doubles the current energy codes.

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