A Special Building Envelope for the Special Forces: Cannon Air Force Base’s New Facility Utilizes Metal Panels
U.S. Army Special Operations Forces commissioned the Corp of Engineers to design and construct a new hangar and aircraft maintenance facility at Cannon Air Force Base in Curry County, N.M. The total scope of this project included the construction of a high-bay aircraft maintenance hangar with an associated aircraft maintenance unit, complete with water-storage tanks, a pump house and an aircraft-parts storage warehouse. Construction work had to be completed quickly and without interference to an existing and active airfield.
The Kingspan KingZip™ Standing Seam Insulated Metal Roofing Panels and 300 Azteco Insulated Metal Panels (IMPs) were specified by the project architect, the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers, to match other hangars adjacent to the project on the recommendation of Consolidated Metal Builders. CMB was the building-envelope subcontractor on this project for the general contractor, Hensel Phelps Construction of Phoenix. Ric Justus, CEO of Consolidated Metal Builders, said that his company had become familiar with Kingspan products during previous design-build hangar projects at Cannon AFB. To construct the roof and walls, the project utilized 120,000 square feet of Kingspan panels.