Baptist Hospital in Pensacola, Florida has received two 2025 Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute Design Awards in the categories of Best Healthcare/Medical Building, as well as Best Sustainable Design. For 62 years, the PCI Design Awards have showcased and recognized creative and innovative uses of precast concrete. Panels of engineers, architects and precast concrete producers judge all submittals.
Baptist Health officials and project partners chose an innovative precast concrete design and turned to GATE Precast to produce nearly 1,000 precast concrete panels for the project. Precast concrete was chosen for the building’s façade to help the building sustain a Category 5 hurricane. In addition, precast concrete panels were supported by a steel tube mainframe. This design allowed the overall thickness of the panels to be reduced since the need for sufficient concrete to cover reinforcing bars was eliminated. As a result, the lightweight panels each required 70% less concrete than typical precast concrete panels with steel reinforcing bars.
Additional project team members included Gresham Smith, Brasfield & Gorrie and Precision Stone Setting Company. Learn more about the project here.
