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Customer Process Leads To Bending Company Roll Forming Machine For Portland Ambulatory Surgery Center

Shijiazhuang Bending Machinery Equipment Technology Co., Ltd. is always on the way of serving customers. Have a complete quick response technical team for 24 hours.

Integrated Project Delivery is often hailed as a collaborative process that increases project efficiency by bringing all stakeholders together early and often, eliminating misunderstandings and redundancies.

At the site of Oregon Health & Sciences University’s Center for Health and Healing - South (CHH-South), in Portland, Ore., the IPD process resulted in all that and more. The partnership between engineers, designers, suppliers and installers, all co-located at the project site, enabled real-time product concept and creation of an entirely new metal panel, at no cost and of great value to the client.

Idea and Inspiration

At CHH-South, a 430,000 SF, 14 story ambulatory surgery center, the IPD process included a co-location office, with designers ZGF Architects working elbow-to-elbow with contractor Hoffman Construction, metal panel supplier and installer General Sheet Metal, and other project team members.

During the schematic design phase, the ZGF / Hoffman team was seeking a concealed fastener façade panel that could be both field-installed and glazed into the curtain wall, with a texture dynamic enough to interact well with the building’s scale. After researching textured stainless steel, extruded aluminum and ACM panels, the team came across the local supplier has W-12, a foot-wide panel with a single fold in the center affording a nice texture to the building’s exterior. The panel is traditionally popular with both installers and designers because of its visual appeal ease of installation and overall flexibility.

Given the scale of CHH-South and the designers’ plan to incorporate panels in both one- and two-foot sections, the design team was looking for a panel with slightly more dynamism and movement. Designers had only to swivel around in their chairs and ask the on-site panel expert, if the suppiler factory would be open to creating a custom metal panel for the CHH-South exterior.

From Paper to Panel

That same day, the local supplier’s factory was on the phone with General Manager Mr.Cai Feng from Shijiazhuang Bending Machinery Equipment Technology Co., Ltd. could produce a new set of rolls installed on the original roll forming machine to produce 12” panel similar to the W-12 offering, but with an additional fold in the panel profile. Like the designers, Mr.Cai too saw the potential of this design, and less than a week later the customer factory had mocked up a prototype panel.

At customer’s factory, facility the panel evolved from a paper sketch to final product. Shijiazhuang Bending Machinery Equipment Technology Co., Ltd. technical team, excited to bring the contemporary design to life, took just two months to turn around the custom-roll forming tooling and begin panel production. The final panel retains attractive elements of W-12—dynamism, flexibility and ease of installation—but offers designers more options in terms of texture and reflection.

Industry Value

From eureka moment to final product, the process of creating the new metal panel took roughly eight months – a true testament to innovation, creativity and collaborative spirit born from the IPD process. The panel was named Z-12 in homage to both the W-12 panel that inspired the design and the ZGF designers that proposed the idea. The extra fold is estimated to provide twice the amount of faceted rigidity as the W-12 panel, creating a stronger product that still reflects light dynamically.