The high school courtyard in 2021 under snow, tan panels above each window bay set between piers of orange brick
Case File 382

Lightening Wrongly Laid Brick in a High School Courtyard

A couple of areas of this courtyard went up in the wrong brick. The school had the wrongly laid range lightened in 2011, and the courtyard was photographed again ten years later and certified then.

Case No. 382
Structure High school courtyard
Location Not released
Stained 2011
Re-photographed 2021
Elapsed 10 years, Silver level

2011

  1. A courtyard window bay in 2011 before staining, the wall above and beside it laid entirely in orange brick under a corrugated metal parapet, with an extension ladder leaning on the glass Before, 2011 View this photo larger
  2. The courtyard elevation in 2011 after staining, two window bays each topped by a panel of tan brick between piers of orange brick, with a metal roof behind and a concrete planter wall in front After, 2011 View this photo larger

What was wrong

The file records it in one line: a couple of areas where the wrong brick were laid. In the photographs those are the panels above the window bays, laid in the same orange as the field around them. The school hired the correction.

What was done

Mineral stain, applied to lighten. Taking a brick lighter is the harder direction, and the file calls this a good example of it. The wrongly laid range was brought to a tan; the orange field around it is the same in every frame.

2021, ten years on

  1. The courtyard in 2021 under snow, looking along the elevation to its inside corner, tan panels above each window bay between piers of orange brick, with the certification stamp in the corner 10 Years After View this photo larger

What ten years prove

Same courtyard, ten winters on, the lightened panels still reading as one range against the orange field. On the certification scale that is Silver, ten years and over. As of 2026 the work is fifteen years old, and the 2021 photograph is the most recent record on it.

The signed file

Every certified job gets the same form, filled in when someone goes back to the building. This is the one for case 382, transcribed beside the scan so a phone and a search engine can read it.

Scan of the case study form for case 382, filled in and signed View the signed form full size
Project name
High School Courtyard (2011)
Level
Silver. The scale runs Bronze at seven to nine years, Silver at ten and over, Gold at fifteen and over, Platinum at twenty and over.
Hired by
The school or university
Reason for project
Color change
Issue
"A couple of areas where the wrong brick were laid."
What was corrected
"We lightened the wrongly laid range of brick."
Storyline
"A good example of lightening a darker brick. It still looks great 10 years later!"
Authorized
Donald A. Foster, signed, dated 2020
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