Large scale performing arts and entertainment venues consume a lot of energy and generate a significant amount of carbon emissions from operational energy.
The high thermal insulation capabilities of Kingspan’s insulated metal panels make them strong choices for the construction of large-scale buildings like performing arts and entertainment venues.
Featuring thermal resistance ratings of over R-8 per inch, a full air and water barrier, and a core of continuous, rigid insulation, these panels offer an advantage in thermal efficiency over some traditional building materials like tilt-up concrete. The built-in insulation in the metal panels creates an excellent barrier against heat transfer, helping performing arts and entertainment facilities reduce energy costs, meet increasingly stringent energy codes, and maintain comfortable indoor environments.
With growing concerns about the built industry’s environmental impact, architects, designers, and contractors are embracing building materials that help to reduce the embodied carbon footprint of these facilities.
Kingspan’s QuadCore® insulated metal panels have been demonstrated in a study to have lower embodied carbon than conventional concrete wall assemblies. Kingspan also has site-specific and product-specific Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) to help architects understand the precise embodied carbon impact of the specific thicknesses of Kingspan IMPs being used in their project.
While old insulated metal panels were monochromatic and often only available in limited hues and finishes, today's panels provide a wide array of contemporary colors, textures, and finishes, offering virtually limitless design possibilities.
This wealth of creative options means that architects and designers can find just the right combination of Kingspan insulated metal panels to fit the desired aesthetic of many performing arts or entertainment building projects.
With Kingspan’s panels, architects and designers also have considerable freedom to vary the size, dimensions, and orientation of these panels. They can be arranged both vertically and horizontally to create a dynamic pattern and unusual geometries from jutting angular designs to sweeping curves.
The design options offered by high performing Kingspan insulated metal panels enable architects to create high-style, showstopping buildings without compromising durability, practicality, and performance.
Durability is essential for performing arts centers and entertainment venues, which face heavy foot traffic and changing weather conditions. Durable and long lasting, Kingspan panels are a great choice in the construction or renovation of these facilities.
Designed to last for decades with minimal upkeep, these panels remain both air and weather tight and provide consistent high thermal performance over the life of the building.
The Harry M. Cornell Arts & Entertainment Complex, located in Joplin, Missouri, spans 37,000 square feet. It features state-of-the-art galleries and a 450-seat hall for spoken word, cinema, musical, comedy, and local opera performances.
Kingspan insulated metal panels played an important role in achieving the design goals of the Cornell Arts & Entertainment Complex while delivering a thermally efficient, high performing building.
A combination of smooth and ribbed Kingspan insulated metal panels in contrasting colors were used in construction. Kingspan Optimo Smooth panels in Ascot White and custom Nova White Silver and KS Micro-Rib panels were the combination selected for the exterior envelope on this project.
The varying textures create shifting light and shadow patterns as daylight changes, mimicking the natural interplay of light on lead and zinc and reflecting the heritage of mining for lead and zinc in the region that initially gave birth to the city of Joplin.
For performing arts and entertainment venues, Kingspan’s insulated metal panels command center stage.