Pasadena City Hall – Seismic Upgrade & Rehabilitation

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Project Description

Client:
Pasadena City Hall

Location:
Pasadena, California

Year Completed:
2008

Project Value:
$ 392,790

Architect:
Bastien and Associates

Products / Strategic Partners:
Armstrong Flooring Inc., J + J Flooring Group,
Tarkett | Johnsonite

Project Summary

Vision:
Pasadena City Hall is one of the finest examples of the California Mediterranean style. It is the dominant building in the Pasadena Civic Center, which is a complex of government, institutional and cultural buildings that epitomizes the City Beautiful movement.

Since its opening on December 27, 1927, Pasadena City Hall has remained one of the most distinctive public buildings in the United States and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Universal Metro’s work on the building’s restoration project earned it a StarNet 2008 Design Award in the Enviromental Achievment Category.

 

Reagan UCLA Medical Center (Los Angeles CA)

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Project Description

Client:
UCLA Health

Location:
Los Angeles, California

Surface Area:
1,000,000 SF

Year Completed:
2008

Project Value:
$ 7,002,832

Architect:
Perkins + Will Architects
Pei Partnership Architects

Awards / Acknowledgements:
Starnet Design Award – Grand Prize Winner

Products / Strategic Partners:
ARDEX Americas, Armstrong Flooring Inc.,
Flexco, Henry Adhesives, Mannington,
Milliken, Mohawk

Project Summary

Vision:
Built to be the most modernized healthcare facility in the world, the building is over 1,500,000 square feet and is the largest single healthcare building west of the Mississippi.

Installation:
Universal Metro invested 6 years, and at times over 40 staff members to complete the 1,000,000 SF project.

Design:
Well over 100 individual SKU’s were involved from manufacturers like Mannington, Armstrong, Mohawk, Flexco, Ardex, Lees Carpets, Milliken, and Henry’s Adhesives; all of which were managed by Universal Metro.
 

MemorialCare Hospital (Los Altos, CA)

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Project Description

Client:
MemorialCare

Location:
Long Beach, California

Surface Area:
13,000 SF

Year Completed:
2013

Project Value:
$ 576,168

Architect:
RTKL

Awards / Acknowledgements:
Starnet Design Award Recipient – Silver Winner Environmental Achievement,
Installation used for National Ad Campaign for Multiple Vendor Partners

Products / Strategic Partners:
ARDEX Americas, Armstrong Flooring Inc.,
Dal Tile, Flexco, Henry Adhesives,
Tarkett | Johnsonite

Project Summary

Vision:
Bring together the most advanced healing technology in community healthcare along with state-of-the-art medical and surgical products, in order to provide excellent clinical outcomes through an amazing array of support services, resources, and nurse practitioners that few non-acute clinics across the country offer.

Design:
Extensive use of open space combined with the elements of environment friendly Bio Based floor covering materials like Armstrong’s Striations (new) to achieve the design focus of “Live Healthy”; to promote healing through nurturing spaces; and to empower patients through information and education.

Construction:
Convert a Borders book store space in a busy shopping center into the most advanced clinic in the county. Dal-Tile combined with Schluter trim on both the top and bottom scores created an incredible bold and linear design element while achieving the statutory sanitary cleanliness codes. The design build of the facility also included an Ardex moisture mitigation system to allow for long term uninterrupted care.

Install:
Universal Metro procured and installed all floor covering over a customized Ardex Moisture Control System, inclusive of Ardex MC Rapid, Ardifix, K-15 Self Leveler, and GS-4 Self-Leveling Repair Underlayment for wood subfloors.  Flooring finishes included bio-based tile, resilient, porcelain tile, stone, carpet, and base.

 

 

Environmental Achievment Strategy

Extensive use of open space combined with the elements of environment friendly Bio Based floor covering materials like Armstrong’s Striations (new) achieved the design focus of “Live Healthy”; to promote healing through nurturing spaces. Using the product in over 13,000 sf (3/4) of the project the Bio Based tile allowed for the project to incorporate sustainable design into the construction. Migrations with BioStride contains rapidly renewable resources, uses 10% recycled content and meets the standards of California Section 01350 for low VOC emissions. BioBased Tile EQ4.3, MR4.0, MR5.0*, MR6.0

 

LA Kings Office and Training Facility (El Segundo, CA)

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Project Description

Client:
LA Kings Training Center

Location:
El Segundo, California

Year Completed:
2015

Architect:
Haskell Interiors

Products / Strategic Partners:
ARDEX Americas, Bentley Carpet, Armstrong Flooring Inc., Tarkett | Johnsonite, Daltile, Henry Adhesives

Project Summary

“The L.A. Kings – Stanley Cup Champions”

The Vision:
Re-Create an environmentally sustainable World Class facility for Sports Champions within the Toyota Sports Center in El Segundo, California. A facility where a winning professional sports teams are connected to the general public; including the Los Angeles Lakers and the L.A. Kings Hockey organizations. Incidentally, Universal Metro did the remodel of the facilities 15 prior. Says a fan who uses the facility, “How cool is it to play hockey, while a pro team practices on the rink next to you?”

The Design:
Creative use of flooring to tie in the team colors of “Black, White and Gray” in the remodel of the space and to have all the Kings operations under one roof, from the: corporate offices, team lockers, a new training gym, a media screening room, a physical therapy suite and main lounge.

The Construction:
Manage the installation of a multitude of floor covering products, including Bentley carpet, Armstrong Striations VCT, rubber flooring and wood. The crown jewel being one of the first open air training gyms in the world.

The Install:
Universal Metro estimated, budgeted, procured, and installed 100 % of the floor coverings on the project.

Children’s Hospital of Orange County (CHOC)

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Project Description

Client:
Children’s Hospital of Orange County (CHOC)

Location:
Orange, California

Surface Area:
50,000 SF

Year Completed:
2013

Project Value:
$ 576,168

Architect:
WBSA

Awards / Acknowledgements:
Starnet Design Award Recipient – Gold Winner People’s Choice
Starnet Design Award Recipient – Silver Winner Unique Installation
Floor Trends Magazine Cover

Products / Strategic Partners:
American Olean, ARDEX Americas,
Armstrong Flooring Inc., Daltile, Henry Adhesives,
Mannington, Tandus Centiva

Project Summary

Vision:
“The Future is Bright” – The vision for this project was to take the Children’s Hospital of Orange County’s (CHOC) commitment to being a leader for the health and well-being of children and transfer that into a design of their buildings, architecture, and aesthetics.

Challenges:
Taking 35 design driven colors and implementing them into exact floor murals, comparable to the art from the mosaic ceramic tile era, was Universal Metro’s second most enjoyable and involved project in our 30 plus year history. Universal Metro worked closely with Creative Edge in the design, engineering, configuring, and construction of the murals, utilizing 35 colors for 6 floors in order to implement the design intent of the architect team from WBSA.

The actual work was precision water jet and then sent in 6′ x 6′ puzzle size pieces inside large 7′ x 13′ foot crates to preserve the vinyl from damage, edge curling, and tears which are common in many designs. With the partnership of Armstrong’s and Ardex’s technical teams, Universal Metro was able to seam seal every edge in order to preserve a long-term floor that will not shrink, fail, collect dirt, and most importantly, be a bright light to the families that visit CHOC each day.

All this work was completed in an active hospital, installing over 50,000 SF with class III Infection Control processes to insure the safety of the patients.