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Gate Precast to Produce Blast-Resistant Precast Concrete Wall System for Fort Hood Replacement Hospital
By: TexasBusiness.com Posted: Wednesday, December 7, 2011 9:57 am
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Texas Business reports: HILLSBORO, Texas—Gate Precast Company has been selected by the Balfour Beatty / McCarthy joint venture design build team to provide a thermally efficient, pre-insulated, brick inlaid architectural precast concrete exterior wall system for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ replacement hospital at Fort Hood.
The new $503 million, 944,000-square-foot medical facility is designed by HKS Architects and Wingler & Sharp.
The facility will replace the existing Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center.
Gate Precast in Hillsboro, Texas will produce the blast-resistant precast concrete wall panels for the hospital.
“Gate Precast is extremely honored and proud to be part of a design-build healthcare project of this magnitude, and knowing that this facility will house heroes inspires our team to go the extra mile to ensure we manufacture and install a quality structure where America’s servicemen and women can receive the best medical care,” said Gate Precast vice president Todd Petty in a prepared statement.
Presently, Gate is in the design and engineering phase of the precast elements which are being modeled in BIM.
The medical campus is designed to achieve the LEED Gold level. One of the sustainable measures includes a 30% reduction in energy use over ASHRAE Standard 90.1. The innovative precast wall panels feature a continuous layer of insulation between the building’s interior and exterior preventing thermal bridging that can nullify the effect of the insulation.
Production of the precast components should begin April 2012 with installation of the precast slated to begin December 2012. Construction is expected to be complete in May 2014.
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