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Seneca Tiles Inc. has a new division specifically designed to serve the masonry industry: GlazedBrick. Based in Attica, Ohio, the GtazedBrick division offers a glazed color sulface on any brick manufacturer's fired body, In sizes ranging from modular to utilities, or even larger, and either molded or extruded. Also offered is the option of glazing a brick manufacturer's thin brick.
Accessing Seneca TIies' 30+ years of glazing experience in its tile and thin brick lines, architects and consumers now can have an opportunity to customize any project with a colorful glazed brick for either accents or solid walls. From unlfonn opaque colors to highly variegated shades in matte, gloss or translucent; multk:olored blends; or just a beautiful clear glaze, the options are endless.
For more information, visit www.senecatiles.com.
On bid day, Sun Valley Masonry out of Phoenix, Ariz., was the low bidder. From Day 1, Sun Valley Masonry had a vision of what this project was going to be. Under the management of Robert "Ducky" Baum, presidenVowner; Don Voight, stone operations/coordination; and Jonathan Stone, onsite superintendent, the project started to become a reality.
All the precast stone elements were engineered and fabricated at Oberfietd Precast and coordinated by Randy Wheelis. Unique shapes and huge pieces of stone were needed, including four eight-feet-thick x 20-feet-tall pointed arches at the main entry of the building, and soaring gothic spires. Ducky Baum oversaw all of the actual construction and quality assurance, assuring everything was constructed properly.
The building a!so was mandated to achieve a LEED certification, so the veneer detailing was deslgned with continuous cavity insula�lion using adjustable relief angle anchors at each of the floor lines holding the relief angle off the structure. This would allow the insula�tion to run uninterrupted, except for the anchor�age points, effectively thermally isolating the veneer from the rest of the structure and build�ing envelope.
The entire masonry veneer took 15 months to complete with more
than one million modular bricks, hand set with cast accents, and four-story-tall cast bay windows around the building perime�ter that had exacting tolerances.
The overall impact of Headington Hall, both functionally and architecturally, will reinforce the continued recruitment and attrac�tion of top academic talent as well as high-performing student ath�letes. Upon completion, Headington Hall assumed its place on the university among the other distinguished building on campus. Sun Valley Masonry has since completed top-notch renovations to the baseball and football stadiums. IMAS
Patrick Schoenfeldt is an architect with Studio Architecture
P.C. in OklahOma City, Okla. He can be reached at pschoenfeldt@studioarc.com.
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