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Project Statistics


Location: Lubbock, Texas
Type: School facility
Size: 36,000 sq. ft.
ICF Use: 41,900 sq. ft.
Cost: $20 million
Total Construction: 117 weeks
ICF Installation Time: 168 days

Construction Team


Owner/Developer: Lubbock-Cooper ISD
General Contractor: Sandia Construction
ICF Installer: Llano Masonry
Form Distributor: Nudura
Architect: Parkhill
ICF System: Nudura

Fast Facts


  • Among Texas’s largest high school storm shelters
  • 18-in. thick, 45-ft. tall walls, 142-ft. roof span
  • Can withstand 250-mph winds
  • Storm shelter houses two practice gyms
  • The floor is 15 feet below grade
  • Walls designed to handle hydrostatic loads
  • A concourse cantilevers 8-feet off center ICF wall in both gyms
Liberty High School (Storm Shelter)

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