Newly opened state-of-the-art Dale Keeling Field House
for Everman ISD, part of an $18-million-dollar bond package accomplished entirely by Speed Fab-Crete General Contractors
Speed Fab-Crete Garners Design-Build Award For School Field House Project
"Smartest design since the Pyramids"
—Dr. Jeri Pfeifer, Superintendent Everman ISD
Speed Fab-Crete General Contractor has been named winner of the 2010 "Design-Build" category in Texas building competition sponsored by TEXO, the DFW chapter of Associated General Contractors.
The award went to Speed Fab-Crete as design-builder of a $5,500,000 field house for Everman Independent School District last year. The district's school trustees were guests of the company at a recent awards banquet at Cowboys Stadium.
The 24,100-square-foot field house contains athletic facilities for the district's various level of football teams.
Callahan & Freeman Architects designed the angular shaped facility. A severely restricted site, in an end zone of the district's football stadium, required the unusual shape to maximize available space. Multiple windows of coaches' offices and the players' weight room face onto a curved track bordering the field.
The exterior of the field house is made of Speed Fab-Crete's precast concrete walls with limestone aggregate, and a partial veneer of two different colored bricks and a standing seam roof. The treatment ensured campus continuity with existing school buildings.
Everman's school superintendent, Dr. Jeri Pfeifer, said, "Given its purpose, our field house was the smartest design since the Pyramids. Given its size, this was the best bang-for-the-buck building I've ever seen."
The building is named in honor of Dale Keeling, Everman ISD's Director of Athletics and champion head football coach, positions he has held for 11 years.
Everman ISD 9th Grade Center, Fort Worth-Dallas Metroplex
A Design-Build Project
Everman ISD 9th Grade Center
Grand Entrance
Everman ISD 9th Grade Center
Vaulted Ceiling Commons Area for Group Activities
Everman ISD 9th Grade Center
Science Lab
Everman ISD 9th Grade Center
Restroom Facility
Everman ISD 9th Grade Center
Spacious Hallway
Everman ISD 9th Grade Center Opens in 2008
Fort Worth-Dallas Metroplex A Design-Build Project
The Everman ISD 9th Grade Center, a $6,400,000 facility, was the largest of several projects approved by voters for ther rapidly-growing school district, south of Fort Worth. Speed Fab-Crete was chosen as the design-builder and Callahan & Freeman Architects as designer of the $12,000,000 bond improvements program.
Everman ISD Intermediate School Fort Worth-Dallas MetroplexA Design-Build Project
Everman ISD Intermediate School (near Fort Worth, Texas) opened in 2005.
The facility includes 36 classrooms in a three wing configuration, joined by
a commons area of wash basins, water fountains and restrooms.
Other features of the 60,000 square foot school are a 325-seat cafetorium, a playnasium with sports carpet, library, computer rooms and administrative offices.
Lindsay ISD High School Lindsay, Texas
The Lindsay ISD regulation-sized gymnasium seats 700 people on telescoping bleachers. The facility opened in 2005.
