“Speed wasn’t the only major benefit of this approach. “I was amazed at how fast the panels of EIFS were installed on the hotel tower,” says Kendall. For the 70,000-square-foot convention center, where traditional field applied EIFS had to be used because of a curved wall design, ten workers spent five months completing the job. It took just 37 working days for a five-man crew to install 30,000 square feet of panels on the 12-story hotel tower.

Then, the completed section was shown to the design team and owner, both of whom signed off on the accelerated construction approach. After seeing the wall section, PCL was convinced. to develop a full section of exterior cladding with an integrated window system. To assure PCL that the pre-fabricated approach would provide the same quality as field applied EIFS, yet in a fraction of the time, Swanson & Youngdale worked with the Lutz Co. We didn’t want to give up quality that I knew we could count on with traditional field applied EIFS but we also knew that we didn’t have the luxury of time to use the traditional approach on the entire project.” “The Mystic Lake project required floor to ceiling panels that incorporated the windows. “We had other companies build panels before for other jobs but never in as complicated a design,” says Kendall. PCL and the Mystic Lake Casino Hotel team did their homework before giving a greenlight to the plan for pre-fabricated panels at Mystic Lake Center. Halvorson was confident in his company’s ability to meet the tight timeframe due to his partnership with the Lutz Company, a Minneapolis-based company that distributes EIFS components for Dryvit Systems, Inc. Kevin Halvorson, vice president of Swanson & Youngdale’s drywall division, showed PCL how if they used pre-fabricated EIFS panels that were built in a weather-controlled environment, off-site and brought to the construction site for faster installation, they could cut months off the construction timeline. PCL turned to Swanson & Youngdale, a 70-year-old Minnesota contractor specializing in EIFS construction, to assess options on the fastest and most effective way to construct the building envelope.

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