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Summit Structures LLC, of Allentown, Pa., which specializes in steel-framed, pre-engineered buildings, built both facilities, which opened the same year, 2003.

Twelve people were injured, including Cowboys scouting assistant Rich Behm, who was paralyzed from the waist down, and special teams coach Joe DeCamillis, who fractured a vertebrae in his neck, when the Dallas structure came crashing down in tornado-speed winds during a rookie minicamp.

"We will review every aspect of the facility," said Patriots spokesman Stacey James. "That's all I'm going to say. I won't speculate as to what decisions we'll make in the future."

When pressed about whether the Patriots would shy away from using the facility, James said, "I don't want to make it sound like we're not going to use the facility in the future. We will."

Summit Structures, which also has constructed indoor athletic facilities for Texas A&M University and English soccer superpower Manchester United, prominently displays the Patriots as a client on its website.

On the website, it says that the Patriots selected the company's Pinnacle brand structure, one of eight trademarked brands of buildings the company offers. The Dana-Farber Field House is a Pinnacle series building that measures 250 feet by 320 feet with a peak height of 85 feet and 45-foot sidewalls.

The company trumpets its work, saying that the field house was designed, manufactured, and constructed in just 16 weeks.

There is an undated testimonial from Dan Krantz, the Gillette Stadium director of site development for the Kraft Group, reading, "Last week we experienced a significant snowfall - totaling nearly 3 feet in less that 36 hours. While other structures on our site gave way under the weight of the snow, your 250-foot clear-span structure remained solid. Our team was able to prepare for the next game - unaffected by the conditions outside."

It is not clear how similar the Cowboys' facility is to the Patriots' facility and what characteristics the structures shared besides a height of 85 feet.

Through a Regan Communications spokeswoman, the company declined to provide the brand or specifications of the building it constructed in Dallas. Cowboys spokesman Rich Dalrymple said his team was not commenting on the building or its history, when asked if it was the same brand of Summit structure the Patriots use.

Media reports from Dallas have said the building, which had a regulation-length football field, was 88,000 square feet, which would make it larger than the Patriots' building.

An investigation is underway to determine the cause of the collapse, and Summit's president, Nathan Stobbe, has flown to Texas to survey the damage.

"We will be working with the Cowboys organization and local professionals and officials to fully assess this severe weather event," said Stobbe, who expressed concern and sympathy for the injured and their families, via a statement.

The National Weather Service determined that a "microburst," a small, intense downdraft that results in localized strong thunderstorm winds, struck Irving, Texas, where the Cowboys' facility stood. It estimated the winds at the time of the collapse were 70 miles per hour or greater.

The Cowboys replaced the fabric roof of their building in 2008. The Patriots recently replaced the outer skin of the Dana-Farber Field House.

However, the skin is merely a cosmetic covering for the field house and is not supposed to have any bearing on the structural integrity of the building.

The Patriots are not the only Summit client in Massachusetts that is featured on the company's website. The Dedham Health and Athletic Complex has two Summit structures, according to the Summit website, an aquatics building, constructed in 2001, and a tennis center, built in 2004. The tennis center is attached to the aquatics unit, which has a play area for kids above the pool.

There is also a testimonial on the website from the athletic complex's director of business, Lloyd Gainsborough.

An employee reached yesterday at the Dedham Health and Athletic Complex, who would only give her first name as Paula, said that Gainsborough was out of town, and that she was told the complex didn't have those structures anymore. She refused further comment.

The incident in Dallas is not the first time a Summit building unexpectedly has collapsed.

A Pennsylvania court ruled in 2006 that Summit was negligent in the design and construction of a membrane-covered building that collapsed in 2003 after a major snowstorm in Philadelphia. The building was constructed for the Philadelphia Regional Port Authority and held freight.

Material from the Associated Press was used in this report.