Elkhorn North High School, Omaha, Neb.

by Rosa Soto | 15 March 2022 12:00 am

Elkhorn North High School was built to support a rapidly growing community in Elkhorn, Neb., a suburb of Omaha. The 254,000-square-foot facility has the capacity to house 1,200 students and enough space to expand to an additional 1,800 students.

The high school features a three-story academic wing with science classrooms and labs clustered together to the north and general study classrooms surrounding collaboration spaces to the south. The design allows for additional labs and classrooms in the future. To meet the needs of learning, there are lots of flex spaces in the school used as multifunctional areas by teachers.

DLR Group wanted to design a functional facility, and a striking one. Metal panels with a variety of finishes, smooth and corrugated surfaces, added visual interest and provided an economical, modern solution that complements the masonry exterior of the building.

To complete the project, SGH Concepts installed metal composite material (MCM) panels and four other types of metal panels. Using its Sieccoline route-and-return, dry-joint rainscreen system, SGH Concepts installed Arconic Architectural Products’ 4-mm-thick Reynobond MCM with a FR core with a two-coat, custom Tin Lizzie finish.

SGH Concepts installed CENTRIA’s Econolap exposed fastener metal wall panels with a two-coat flourofinish in custom Tin Lizzie, and CENTRIA IW-10A concealed fastener metal wall panels with a two-coat flourofinish prismatic coating in White.

Also, SGH Concepts installed Dri-Design’s 4-inch-deep Shadow Series aluminum panels with a twocoat Cityscape finish and 2-inch-deep Shadow Series aluminum panels with a two-coat custom Tin Lizzie finish.

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