Coinciding with the region’s growth, UC Health announced its $221 million Clifton Campus Revitalization project to create innovative environments that reflect the expertise and passion happening within the center every day.
This led UC Health to renovate and expand its 30-year-old emergency department at UC Medical Center in order to increase capacity and patient flow. Now complete, the expansion features improvements like a new ambulance canopy, six dedicated behavioral health rooms and 10 well-equipped nursing stations.
With the region’s growing demand for emergency care, speed of build when renovating the emergency department was important. This led architects CannonDesign to choose insulated metal panels (IMPs) as the building envelope for the expansion.
Quick installation of IMPs provided a weathertight envelope in reduced time, drying in the emergency room faster and allowing for inside finish work to begin sooner. The fast-tracked construction to prevent scheduling delays for on-time completion.
Optimo insulated metal wall panels deliver a flat, aesthetically appealing modern building envelope solution. The use of pearlescent micas or metallic colors provides an even more dynamic finish to the project. Optimo panels are ideal for retrofit projects because they can integrate with a variety of profiles, allow for both horizontal and vertical application and come with a wide variety of module widths to meet design requirements.
IMPs also provide thermal efficiency and energy consumption benefits to the new emergency department. By creating air and watertight continuous insulation seals, IMPs provide strong thermal barriers to maintain safe and comfortable environments for patients. These insulation barriers also help to reduce energy consumption for large complexes like UC Medical Center.
Over 17,000 square feet of Kingspan’s Quadcore Optimo panels were used to provide a unique, modern aesthetic that fits the theme of UC Health’s Clifton Campus Revitalization.