The newest addition to the UC Merced campus challenged the project team to put sustainability front and center. But a complex curtain wall system and other green building elements required careful BIM coordination to keep subcontractors from butting heads while working on Science and Engineering Building 2.
The exterior of the $88-million project incorporates "pretty much every type of skin system available," says Nathan Long, assistant project manager of St. Louis-based construction manager McCarthy Building Cos. "We have composite metal panels, insulated metal panels, plaster, curtain wall systems, precast panels and columns, and a photovoltaic structure with steel—and everything ties in together."