Three Manufacturers, One High School: Creek View’s Glazing Package

A Tubelite storefront and curtain wall package, with CRL and US Aluminum systems, on Medina Valley ISD’s Creek View High School in San Antonio.

The Tubelite Storefront, Curtain Wall, and CRL Scope

Everything below, all clear anodized:

• Tubelite 400T series curtain wall
• Tubelite T14000 storefront system
• Tubelite INT-14 storefront system
• CRL channel system
• CRL Blumcraft display doors
• CRL Nova display system
• Tubelite Maxblock sunshades
• CRL DW manual sliding window XO
• US Aluminum 8200 horizontal sliding window
• CRL J-channel system
• Tubelite Monumental wide stile entrances
• Clear anodized finish
• Structural engineering included

Exterior Is the Easy Part

The Tubelite 400T curtain wall carries the entry and the larger openings, including the two-story corner under the main canopy, and the T14000 does the storefront work in the exterior walls. INT-14 is Tubelite’s interior storefront, so the openings inside the thermal line went to it, and that split is settled by which side of the exterior wall an opening sits on rather than by anyone’s preference. Maxblock sunshades hang over the curtain wall on the metal-panel block in the photo below, and the Monumental wide stile doors are at the entrances. A high school entrance door takes traffic, shoulders, book bags, and carts all day, and a wide stile gives the closer and the panic hardware something solid to mount to. If you have not drawn a sunshade package before, LearnGlazing’s Introduction to Sunshades course walks through the outriggers, blades, and attachment clips, and why the PE reviews the whole system before anything is installed.

What Makes a School a School

The CRL scope is the part a visitor never notices and a PM counts twice. Channel and J-channel frame the interior glass, Blumcraft display doors and Nova display cases hold the trophies, and the DW manual sliding windows and the US Aluminum 8200 horizontal sliders sit at the offices and concessions, where a secretary or a booster parent slides a window open and shut all day. Each of those openings is small, and each one gets its own elevation, head, jamb, and sill in the set. Drawing a sliding service window in full is arguably more than it needs, since the manufacturer’s standard details cover most of it, but the R.O. in a framed corridor wall gets measured in the field, and a full detail is where the installer finds out what he is measuring against before the glass is ordered.

Interior scope is also where school packages sprawl. Display cases and service windows multiply across a campus, and each one is small enough to ignore until it holds up an inspection. If you are quoting a school, count the interior openings twice, once off the door schedule and once off the interior elevations, and reconcile the two before you price the drafting. The sheet count comes from there, not from the curtain wall.

Engineering in the Same Set

The structural engineering rode along with the drawings. On this job that meant the curtain wall spans at the entry and the Maxblock outriggers loading back into the framing, calculated and detailed in the same set, so the PE’s numbers and the drafter’s details come from one package instead of two. The PE sizes the span and the outrigger connection, and the drafter draws what the PE sized, repeated on every sheet so nobody rounds it. San Antonio wind loads are ordinary, so the engineering here is about spans and sunshade loads and not about anything regional. If your curtain wall carries sunshades, the outrigger loads go to the PE with the spans, not after, and the mullion gets checked once that way instead of twice.

This was MP’s second Tubelite package after Vanderbilt’s Garland Hall, and Tubelite framing at a school is familiar ground; Sheiko Elementary in Michigan ran on the same manufacturer’s details. The standard details are the same on both jobs; the transitions between systems are what each building adds.

Built Into a Hill

The site drops about 90 feet from one end to the other, and the building is cut into the hillside. The main entrance reads as a normal front door, while students on the far side come in on the second floor and walk out at grade, which is what the stairs and the stone retaining walls in the photo below are doing. Bartlett Cocke’s project manager and superintendent both grew up in the district, and R.T. Hoog, the project manager, told Texas A&M’s College of Architecture, “This is the school district that Trevor and I grew up in, went to high school and middle school, and still live in.” At the peak of construction the superintendent was coordinating up to 380 subcontractors, and Bulverde Glass was one of them.

The Next One

Medina Valley ISD adds between 10 and 15 percent more students a year by its own count, and KSAT reported in August 2025 that the district expects around 20,000 students by 2033. The $376 million bond voters passed in May 2023 paid for Creek View and for security work across the district, and a $290 million bond in May 2024 funds a third middle school on Montgomery Road, due to open in fall 2027, plus two more elementary schools after that. Who draws the glass on those has not been settled.

Need a Set Like This?

If your next job mixes manufacturers, carries a pile of interior display and service window scope, or sits on a date that cannot move, MP Drafting can take the whole package, engineering included. Send us the architectural set and we will scope it.

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