Baseball practice facility is a hit with players and neighbors.
Indoor Baseball Practice Facility

Shelter-Rite® resistance to snow accumulation, dirt and pollutants, along with its attractive appearance, created a practice field of dreams for a high school baseball team.

The challenge was to create an immediate response to the need for an indoor practice facility, allowing for uninterrupted team training through the winter months. Further, there was a need to create a facility that was visually pleasing because it was located in an architecturally sensitive area.

Sprung Instant Structures created the 32,500-square-foot practice facility using a state-of-the-art stressed membrane structure, comprised of Seaman Corporation's Shelter-Rite fabric with a custom spruce green Tedlar coating. The unique shape of the facility was created by installing the fabric under high tension between a series of aluminum arches.

Located in an extremely heavy snow area, the slippery non-stick Tedlar surface ensures that the snow will continuously slide off the roof of the structure. The anti-stick, non-staining performance of Seaman fabrics also helps to prevent dirt and airborne pollutants from adhering to the fabric, making the structure virtually self-cleaning as rain and snow shed off the structure.

Fabric:
Shelter-Rite Style 9319 polyester reinforced opaque PVC with Spruce Green Tedlar coating. Skylight Style 9319 polyester reinforced translucent PVC with Milky-White Tedlar coating, by Seaman Corporation

Support Structure:
Aluminum Arches

Fabrication and Installation:
Sprung Instant Structures, Inc.