Baptist Hospital East Expansion

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Kingspan Benchmark Provides Modern Metal Envelope for Baptist Hospital East Expansion

The recently expanded campus of Baptist Hospital East features a new Outpatient Surgery and Patient Bed Tower Facility clad in Kingspan Benchmark panels. Windows also wrap the Park Tower, providing patients and employees with plenty of daylight and views of the surrounding greenery.

Located in Louisville, KY, Baptist Hospital East teamed with Engberg Anderson to develop and expand the campus. Architects in Engberg Anderson’s Milwaukee office designed the hospital’s 275,000-square-foot addition, which has since been named the Park Tower. The nine-story facility houses eight operating rooms, 24 prep/recovery rooms, a new Post Anesthesia Care Unit and 144 new patient rooms as well as covered parking.

Engberg Anderson collaborated with Kingspan Benchmark on the $72 million outpatient facility. The Park Tower features roughly 18,000 square feet of Kingspan Benchmark Designwallä 2000H Striated panels. The smooth steel panels are finished in sandstone and white and striated to provide an attractive linear shadowing effect to the walls. Insulated with expanded polystyrene, the Designwall 2000H panels can deliver a value as high as R-22.

While designing the Park Tower, Engberg Anderson project architect Jacob Kain identified the challenges of building the new component of the hospital.

“One of the main challenges of designing the Park Tower was to get everything stacked properly,” Kain recalls. “We wanted to create a good flow between the departments in the Tower, but it was equally important that the layout provide as much access to daylight as possible.”

With views of a healing garden, greenery and a nearby park, the Tower’s many windows provide several benefits to patients. Not only can patients overlook the exterior scenery from their rooms, but they can also orient themselves more easily in relation to their surroundings. Additionally, natural light fills the patient and operating rooms.

“The landscaping played an integral part in the design process,” Kain adds. “We specifically planned the greenery to work with the building’s layout and made sure that patients and employees would always have access to the beautiful exterior views.”

The Park Tower was completed in August 2008. The project team includes Engberg Anderson (Milwaukee, WI), general contractor BE & K Building Group and panel installer JC Industries, both located in Louisville, KY.

Effective on August 22, 2008, Kingspan Insulated Panels acquired MeTecno USA, including all its divisions – API, ASI, Benchmark and Morin.

Kingspan Insulated Panels maintains the distinctive ability to provide customers with a variety of insulated composite panels and architectural single element metal wall and roof product options from multiple plants across the country. Each division offers unique methods technology, products and services, and is available to assist with all your metal panel needs. Going beyond aesthetics, Kingspan products contain a high-degree of recycled content and are readily recyclable at the end of their long service life. As a weather-resistant, energy-efficient addition to the building envelope, Kingspan products consistently contribute to USGBC Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design credits and overall LEED building certification.

About Kingspan Benchmark

Formerly a division of MeTecno USA, Benchmark became Kingspan Insulated Panels company as a result of Kingspan's purchase of MeTecno USA and its divisions in August 2008.

Kingspan Insulated Panels is a worldwide leader in the manufacturing of metal panels, providing premium service to the U.S. market as well as export destinations. Each of the company's six plants focuses on design requirements for applications with factory-engineered insulated composite panels and architectural single element metal wall and roof panels. Kingspan Insulated Panels serves the needs of the architectural, commercial/industrial, cold storage and food processing markets, delivering some of the most advanced building products on the market. To learn more, visit www.kingspanpanels.us.