Coxe Cage

The Coxe Cage Field House at Yale University has been a singular and revered beacon of New Haven’s sporting community & the city’s historic lineage since its conception in 1928.

Measuring over 356 feet long and 156 feet wide, with a ceiling reaching almost 83 feet, the building encompasses over 3.3 million cubic feet of air space. There were major renovations to the old cinder track and dirt floor, and the skylight but, the tarnished and aging steel frame windows had endured decay and disrepair for 93 years and were in need of restoring.

In March of 2021, The Cooper Group was invited by Yale University to comprehensively restore & renovate all 30 existing steel frame windows at Coxe Cage. These frames combined have a net surface area of 15,000-square-foot, including the replacement of all existing single pane glass with approximately 7,000 panes of energy efficient low-E laminated glass.

Each steel window is composed of individual steel frame sash, ranging in size from the smallest at 17’-8 7/8” x 6’-5 1/2” to the largest at 42’-10” x 23’-10 ½”. These sash were carefully removed from the building envelope and transported to our facilities at Pawcatuck/North Stonington to undergo a thorough ten step restoration and renovation process. Once reinstalled, each window was required to pass a rigorous on-site rain test procedure to ensure final certification.