A combination of exterior cladding materials including metal wall panels met a variety of project goals for Gilbert Place, a mixed-use building. The mixed-use building has retail spaces at the first floor and rooftop restaurant. Virginia Tech leases four floors, where its Department of Computer Science and College of Engineering are located.
Hanbury Evans Wright Vlattas and Co. specified three types of metal wall panels, concrete panels, and Hokie Stone, a limestone from the area used on other campus buildings. Hanbury’s exterior design blends with existing architecture, and reduces the scale of the six-floor, 23,783 m2 (256,000 sf) building.
David Keith, CEO at Hanbury, says, “As we went up levels, we wanted to break up the mass so it wouldn’t feel like a six-story building, and there’s an economy to using the metal panels that we thought was quite elegant, and at the same time being pretty economical.”
To build it, metal composite material (MCM) panels, and Morin Corp.’s W-12 single-skin, concealed fastener metal wall panels were installed.
Additionally, Kingspan Insulated Panels Inc. supplied its Designwall 2000 insulated metal panels (IMPs) in Weathered Zinc and Designwall 4000 IMPs in Bright Silver. Behind the majority of the exterior cladding, Kingspan’s KarrierPanels with QuadCore insulation were installed.
Owner: WMJ Development, LLC, Newport News, Va.
General contractor: W.M. Jordan Co., Newport News, Va., wmjordan.com
Architect: Hanbury Evans Wright Vlattas and Co., Blacksburg, Va., hanbury.design
Installer: Glass and Metals Inc., Harrisonburg, Va., glassandmetals.com
Metal wall panels: Kingspan Insulated Panels Inc., Deland, Fla., kingspan.com, Morin Corp., Bristol, Conn., morincorp.com
