Curtainwall installation complete at Hyundai Motor America Headquarters
Field crews install the last curtainwall unit at the atrium’s west elevation.
Field crews installed the last remaining curtainwall unit at the Hyundai Motor America Headquarters on May 21st. The six story, 504,000 square foot high-rise structure includes 135,000 square feet of custom curtainwall installed by Enclos.
The south, east and west elevation curtainwall system includes laminated insulated low-iron glass with enhanced acoustical properties. The north elevation includes insulated low iron glazing. Both acoustical and non-acoustical curtainwall unit modules span 10’ x 15’ and include a ceramic frit pattern.
The project team is delivering Hyundai’s new headquarters campus as part of a fast-track schedule, with all trades participating to accelerate design, engineering, material procurement and construction. Curtainwall systems were installed in a mere five weeks. Enclos’ field team is currently installing 30,000 square feet of soffit panels, 27,000 square feet of channel glazing, and 9,000 square feet of point-fixed glass fin walls.
The $150 million Fountain Valley, California home to multinational automaker Hyundai Motor Company will seek LEED Gold certification, and is scheduled for completion in late 2013.
Additional information on the Hyundai Motor America Headquarters is available here.
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Registration open for USC’S Facade Tectonics 12
Registration is open for the University of Southern California School of Architecture’s Facade Tectonics 12. The summer summit will be held at the university's Harris Hall in Los Angeles, California on Wednesday, June 26th.
Facade Tectonics was established as a research focus group by the School of Architecture's doctoral program in 2008, and has since emerged as a global community of professionals and scholars. Constituents of the building community — those involved in the design, delivery, maintenance and use of the building envelope — are encouraged to attend.
Enclos staff will present two presentations, "Concept to Reality: Collaborative Parametric Workflow for a Free-Form Double-Curved Cable Structure," and "Face Change: Rapid Diversification in the Application of High-Performance Facade Technology." We hope you'll join us in Los Angeles.
The full list of presentations is available here. Registration for Facade Tectonics 12 is available here.
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John Jay College featured in Structure Magazine
Structure Magazine has published a feature on the recently completed expansion of the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. The 625,000 square foot Midtown Manhattan project includes a 15-story tower and four-story podium with garden roof that doubles the college’s classroom, laboratory, auditorium, office, and student lounge space. The article discusses in detail unique site challenges, hanging structural systems, and a proactive design that will allow for future expansions.
Enclos provided comprehensive design/build services for 240,000 square feet of building facade, including curtainwall, skylight, louver and panel systems. Localized blast design was also part of the facade program.
You can read Structure Magazine’s full article here. Additional information on the John Jay College of Criminal Justice is available here.
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Four weeks until GPD Finland 2013
The largest international conference on architectural and solar glass is just weeks away, where Enclos will be represented by a team of seven innovators of building skin technology. Glass Performance Days (GPD) is held biannually in Tampere, Finland, with more than 800 participants from over 55 countries in attendance. This year’s program consists of two days of workshops and three days of conference proceedings over June 11-15.
Presentation topics by the Enclos team range from drain sizing over double curved surfaces, cassette systems, joint cost savings and energy gains from curtainwall systems, double-skin facades, and blast performance. In addition, Mic Patterson, Vice President of Strategic Development, and Jeffrey Vaglio, Associate Director at the Advanced Technology Studio of Enclos, will lead a workshop on Wednesday, June 12 entitled "Facades + Innovation." Patterson and Vaglio will be accompanied by Enclos’ James Casper, Senior Structural Engineer, and Michel Michno, Vice President.
The summit will feature over 180 lecture and poster presentations, and include 24 workshops. We hope you'll join Enclos and the leaders in building skin technology in Finland the second week of June.
The full program, including workshop descriptions and other conference details, is available at GPD’s website here.
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Enclos recognized by The Ironworker’s “IMPACT North America Safety Honors Program”
Congratulations to Russ Boone for his nomination in The Ironworker magazine’s “IMPACT North America Safety Honors Program.” Boone, a Superintendent at Enclos, oversaw 160,000 man-hours of facade system installation without a single incident. He is a member of Washington, D.C.’s Local 5.
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