Baptist Hospital Achieves Sustainable Design Through Prefabrication

Using prefabricated materials positively impacts both, harmonizing speed to market with sustainability goals. In addition, prefabrication improves quality control, creates safer working conditions, reduces waste and energy, and creates healthier working environments.
The new Baptist Hospital campus, situated on 57 acres in Pensacola, FL, owes part of its success to being designed and built for the future. An integrated design team consisting of the Gresham Smith & Partners, Brasfield & Gorrie, subcontractors and the owner utilized prefabrication for both exterior and interior components, as well as MEP systems, in the main 264-bed hospital and six-story health center tower.
The main hospital tower features GateLite, a thin architectural façade system, finished and unitized with glazing and insulation for a complete thermal, vapor and air barrier. GateLite offers a reduction in enclosure time and jobsite disturbance by eliminating the need for traditional trades on site and reduces the structure's carbon footprint.
Traditional prefabricated concrete panels clad the podium and CEP and feature a GateStone finish, which creates varying shades of color and a random appearance within the panels, lending depth and a timeless appearance.
The owner desired a design for its new campus that would be resilient, sustainable, improve operational efficiency and enhance the human experience. Architectural concrete façade systems were selected as the best material to represent the design narrative.
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