Mission Hospital Patient Care Tower
13 november 2018
Project: Mission Hospital Patient Care Tower, Mission Viejo, California | USA
Architects: RBB Architects, Inc., Los Angeles, CA | USA
General Contractor: McCarthy Building Companies, Inc., Newport Beach, CA | USA
Fabricator: Keith Panel Systems (KPS) Co., Ltd. North Vancouver, BC | Canada
Installer: Tower Glass, Inc., Santee, CA | USA
Construction: Cassettes
Year of Construction: 2009
Product: ALUCOBOND® Custom Rose Metallic, Bone White, Silver Metallic
Photos: Barrie Rokeach
ANTICIPATORY PLANNING FOR SECURE REALISATION
The Mission Hospital features cuttingedge technology as well as patient and family-centred care. It has been serving the greater needs of the community and improving the health, safety and quality of life for more than 40 years. It offers the region’s only designated trauma centre, a 24-hour emergency care centre and specialized services for imaging, heart, stroke, maternity, and women’s wellness needs. The expansion also includes a new chapel open 24 hours seven days a week to patients and visitors of all faiths. The halfcylindrical chapel serves as a predominant design element. Construction of the complex also was facilitated by using Building Information Modelling (BIM) to create three-dimensional mock-ups for high-congestion areas on the building exterior and to help resolve system clashes before construction began safety was a preeminent subject both in the design phase and during construction work.
RBB Architects, created the tower’s AIA Design Award-winning architecture, which is clad in ALUCOBOND®. Keith Panel Systems fabricated 3100 ALUCOBOND® panels for the tower and chapel with the aid of three-dimensional modelling software. “There were several elements on this project with complicated geometry,” said architect Paul Dalzell. “We had to coordinate everything with the structural steel, glazing and stud contractors and used advanced three-dimensional collision-detection software to flag potential problems between trades; months before anything had been erected. This process allowed us to fabricate panels with dimensions pulled from the 3-D model, eliminating the need for field measurements and greatly accelerating the schedule. It was a good example of what BIM technology can yield.”