Vassar Brothers Medical Center Expansion Project

Location: Poughkeepsie, NY

Team: Walsh, Consigli Joint Venture, and Stantec

Scope: $600 million, 752,000 square ft

Structure

  • 4 floors
  • 264 private patient rooms
  • 30 room ICU
  • 13 surgical suites
  • 15,000 square foot emergency department featuring 66 treatment rooms
Challenge
  • build an emergency department twice the size of that in the former building
  • make several technological and aesthetical updates
  • Wabo®SeismicPan (SPJ) 400 installed in floors at 500ft
  • walls lined with 1100ft worth of Wabo®Seismic WeatherSeal (SWS) 350
  • exterior walls and roof feature 500ft of our Wabo®Flash (EEJ) systems
  • fire rating in the 2-3hr range due to our Wabo®FireShield fire barrier systems
  • 700ft of our Wabo®FlameGuard II fire barrier systems were also installed

WBA Products Used

  • Wabo®SeismicPan
  • Wabo®Seismic WeatherSeal
  • Wabo®Flash
  • Wabo®FireShield
  • Wabo®FlameGuard II

Vassar Brothers Medical Center

Wabo®SeismicPan


Features & Benefits

  • Nearly invisible
  • Flush walking surface
  • Protects floors during earthquakes
  • Multi-directional
  • Seismic movements
  • Carpeting, pavers, tile, terrazzo, etc.

Wabo®Seismic WeatherSeal

Features & Benefits

  • Colorable and pre-compressed
  • Accommodates ±50% movement
  • Seal is UV resistant
  • Installs without use of adhesives
  • Vertical applications only
  • Sound insulator
  • Thermal insulator
  • Available in uncoated also

Wabo®Flash (EEJ)


Features & Benefits

  • For exterior walls & roofs
  • Flexible expanded rubber with membrane
  • Complex directional changes
  • Integral metal flanges

Wabo®FireShield

Features & Benefits

  • Fire ratings : 2 or 3hr fire rating in accordance with UL-2079.
  • Sound Attenuation : minimizes sound transfer.
  • Meets the requirements of UL- 2079, ASTM E-1966, ICBO ES AC30, CAN/ULC-S101
  • Cycle tested
  • Listed with ULC & UL
  • Watertight : Can accommodate structural movement up to +/-50% and maintain a watertight application.

Wabo®FlameGuard II

Features & Benefits

  • Fire ratings to 4 hrs. for 2 inch joint openings
  • Fire ratings to 2 hrs. for joint opening up to 12 inches
  • Meets the requirements of UL- 2079, ASTM E-1966, ICBO ES AC30, CAN/ULC-S101
  • Cycle tested
  • Listed with ULC & UL