However, the school recently celebrated the first anniversary of its new Christian L. Siebert Park. The school’s new home field reopened in fall 2014 after a $4.7 million facelift ,which included a new artificial turf field, home stadium seating stretching nearly the entire length of the field, an indoor team room, public restrooms and a field house able to accommodate two football teams. New tennis courts, a six-lane track and a softball field also rounded out the overhaul.

“This was an extremely exciting and important project that took nearly three years for Camp Hill to put together,” said Bob Royer of Lemoyne, Pa.-based KS Heagy Contractors Inc., the project’s builder. “This was a much-needed and significant expenditure for a community with a great sense of pride and deep loyalty to its high school sports teams.”

Royer also noted that every dollar had to be maximized. “The specification process had to ensure not only the best value, but also the long-lasting durability of all the products,” he added. “No one expects to go another 75 years before an upgrade, although a decade or two would really help the local budget.”

One of the most significant morale-boosting upgrades to the athletic programs was to the facility’s locker and meeting rooms. Scranton Products, a Scranton, Pa.-based manufacturer of partitions and lockers made with high-density polyethylene (HDPE), supplied all-new bathroom partitions, lockers and athletic storage cubbies. The company worked directly with the project’s contractors and architects to produce the customized, low-maintenance athletic cubbies for the facility’s home and visiting team locker rooms.

In addition, the company also supplied partitions for several of the new restrooms as well as lockers for referee changing rooms. Given the high-impact requirements of the application, the school opted for the non-porous, HDPE surface Hiny Hiders partitions, which are naturally resistant to odors, mold and mildew.

Careful material selection also helped decrease certain health risks, as the HDPE partitions and lockers are resistant to certain strains of bacteria. Gym lockers tend to be dark, moist environments and can serve as an ideal breeding ground for staph infections and new strains of MRSA, a drug-resistant bacterium that typically causes skin infections. The Greenguard Gold-certified Tufftec gym lockers were independently tested, and results showed that, after 24 hours, 98.4 percent of the MRSA bacterial died off the surface of HDPE plastic without the use of any cleaning solutions, according to David Casal, national director of sales and marketing for the Scranton Products.
 

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In May 2008, Dallas citizens approved a $1.35 billion bond program. The program was designed to reshape the school district through the completion of 61 separate projects. The district will replace several dated facilities and repurpose numerous others with the latest technologies and sustainable features.

Bathroom partitions from Scranton Products were among the many products specifically selected to meet these needs. The school system chose Hiny Hiders Paisley Color and EX texture.

“A textured finish was desired by the district, because they noticed reduced vandalism,” said Karl Prinz of WRA Architects in Dallas.

Scranton Products partitions also met other criteria cited by the city for its new school bathrooms. The installations are designed not to rust or delaminate and resist dents, scratches, graffiti, corrosion, mildew and moisture.

The initiative included building the new George Herbert Walker Bush Elementary School, which officially opened in Addison, Texas, in August 2011, and the William Hardin Adamson High School replacement project, which is slated for completion the summer of 2012.

“The planning was extensive for each of the school bond projects and included designs that were not only innovative, but also enduring and aesthetically pleasing,” says Prinz, who was the project manager for George Herbert Walker Bush Elementary School. “As a result, all the materials were chosen for their ability to comfortably blend into the facility’s modern design, while withstanding the daily use of elementary school students.”

Jason Mellard, who served as architect on the $49 million Adamson High School replacement effort, agreed with the assessment. As an inner-city school, Adamson will have the capacity for 1,300 students in grades nine through 12 when its doors open for the 2012-13 school year.

“Durability was certainly an important consideration when we planned this project,” explains Mellard. “That’s why the Scranton products partitions were chosen by the district for installation throughout the school system. They are exceptionally tough and with the proper support are virtually impossible to rip from the floors.”

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