CPI Daylighting’s Quadwall Installation at the Juneau Memorial Center

Feb. 11, 2015

LAKE FOREST, IL (February 3, 2015) Located on a peninsula between the Passaic and Hackensack Rivers, the 80,000-sq.-ft. warehouse that produced Navy destroyers during WWII incurred severe water damage that rusted its exterior terra cotta tile as the building lay dormant for decades. Renamed for the Navy cruiser built there a half-century ago, the Juneau Memorial Center now serves as an emergency management command center for New Jersey’s Hudson County.

When local architects, The Musial Group (www.themusialgroup.com), were charged with rehabilitating the building on behalf of New Jersey’s Office of Emergency Management, they chose a combination of metal panels and 41,200-sq.-ft. of CPI Daylighting’s double panel Quadwall.

“We chose the Quadwall system because of its spanning capabilities and relatively high R-value comparable to other similar systems,” said project architect Noel Musial Jr., principal, The Musial Group. “The Quadwall system, in concert with a metal panel system, afforded us the ability to provide an energy efficient building skin while expressing the historic structure.”

Together with geothermal heating and cooling and energy recovery, the Quadwall panels are among the sustainable strategies that hope to earn the Juneau Memorial Center LEED Silver certification.

The Quadwall system is an assembly of two independent translucent insulated panels, resulting in one integrated, high-performance daylighting system. Quadwall is the only system that can provide indefinite building envelope protection with its removable skin technology or RST. Scalable, the Quadwall system can be configured for specialized performances such as additional insulation, UL-rated Class A or B fire-rated roof assembly, sound reduction, dynamic shading, additional structural performance or even military forced entry resistance. Joined by a mechanically interlocking connection, the dry-glazed Quadwall system eliminates the need for vulnerable adhesives, adding durability, as well as even light distribution with the system’s patented Nano-Cell technology.

Specified in clear matte over clear matte, the Quadwall panels serve all four sides of the building, including cladding the building’s garage doors to create a seamless, flush look, integrated with metal panels and vision glass throughout.

“The new building skin, of which the Quadwall was a major component, implemented a consistent and straightforward approach that highlighted the existing structure while protecting it with an easy to maintain material,” said Musial. “Using the Quadwall for the entirety of the garage doors provided continuity of the building envelope and a monolithic reading of the building’s materiality.”