Galaxy Elementary School
The most unique feature of this school are the main entry tilt-up panels that consists of two 39-feet high tilt-up panels. The first tilt-up panel is 51-feet wide and second tilt-up panel is 40-feet wide. The Architect incorporated into these tilt-up panels 2-feet wide angled legs from the second floor down, form liner and a massive opening from the second floor up.
The panel specialty engineer's biggest challenge was to design the panel's angled legs as structural columns in lieu of standard panel legs. As a result, a considerable amount of additional reinforcement was put into them. In addition, the widest panel (51-feet wide) has a massive 2nd floor opening (39-feet wide by 11-feet high), which presented additional challenges to the specialty engineer as well as the lifting and bracing engineer.
Two other distinctive features are the school's name recessed into the tilt-up panels facing interstate I-95 highway, and the sloped tilt-up panels along I-95 in contrast with flat classroom wings tilt-up panels.
The above mentioned panels became the most recognizable feature of the building and a community symbol.
Project Location
Boyton Beach, FL 33435
United States
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Project Team (TCA Members)
- General Contractor:
- Concrete Contractor:
- Builders Plus, Inc.
- Architect:
- Engineer:
- Leviat
- Suppliers:
- Fitzgerald Formliners
- Leviat
- Nox-Crete Products Group
- HD Supply Construction & Industrial White Cap
- Photographer(s):
Project Specifics
- Project Category:
- Building Types:
- Finishes:
- Features:
- Insulation:
- Environmental:
- Number of Floors:
- 0
- Tilt-Up Wall Area:
- 105,990 sq ft (9,846 sq m)
- Total Floor Area:
- 120,200 sq ft (11,167 sq m)
- Project Footprint:
- 73,400 sq ft (6,819 sq m)
- Tallest Panel:
- 39 ft 1 in (11.91 m)
- Widest Panel:
- 51 ft 4 in (15.67 m)
- Largest Panel:
- 1,234 sq ft (114.6 sq m)
- Heaviest Panel:
- 145,760 lbs (66,116 kg)
- Longest Spandrel:
- 27 ft 0 in (8.23 m)
- Recycled Content:
- 641 tons (US)
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Mount Vernon, IA 52314
United States
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Founded in 1986, the Tilt-Up Concrete Association (TCA) strives to improve the quality and acceptance of site-cast Tilt-Up construction - one of the fastest growing industries in the United States, combining the advantages of reasonable cost with low maintenance, durability, speed of construction and minimal capital investment. Over 10,000 buildings, enclosing more than 650 million square feet, are constructed each year using this construction method.
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