Project Excellence

Johns Manville health care design specialists are available to consult with your entire project team from the earliest planning stages to help your project achieve its greatest potential during design and construction phases, as well as throughout the life of the facility. Our specialists can offer a wide range of product recommendations and installation guidelines that can enhance the budget, shorten the timeline, reduce risk, improve ROI, and ensure better results for your facility well into the future.

Budget Management

Health care construction projects have unique design needs that rank them among the most costly types of structures to design and build, exceeding $550 per square foot in some areas.¹ Johns Manville can provide consultation from the earliest stages of the decision process through its completion.

Cost-efficient material choices.

JM Formaldehyde-free™ fiber glass insulations offer a proven and safe way to hold down construction costs. Fiber glass generally offers the lowest cost option of available materials for achieving acoustic and thermal insulating specifications and building code requirements.

Expert advice.

Johns Manville can provide advice throughout the construction process that can help you avoid costly delays or the use of improper installation methods that will later need to be corrected. We partner with our customers to help achieve the most efficient and affordable approach for the facility's construction.

Schedule Execution

Because of their complexity, health care construction projects typically take a long time to plan and complete. The key to avoiding such delays is careful and thoughtful planning. Using an integrated design approach, JM can provide consultation from the earliest stages of the decision process through its completion to help you:

Avoid common delays.

According to the California Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development, the most common reasons for project delays are 1) defects or omissions in plans; 2) failure to promptly reply to plan review comments; 3) project changes during the review process; and 4) project changes during construction.²

Improve quality control.

Johns Manville partners with our health care customers to provide specification and detail review to identify errors or omissions in plans. For architects and engineers, we offer a unique set of tools and resources that can help you complete your design projects quickly and confidently.

Financial Performance

Holding down energy costs and other lifetime operating and maintenance costs is important to the long-term success of your facility. Through the careful selection of roofing and insulating materials, you can have a significant impact on two of your hospital's biggest expenses:

Reduce life-cycle costs.

Cool roofing systems use highly reflective roof membranes to reduce urban heat island effect, decrease energy demand for air conditioning, and in some cases allow buildings to downsize their air conditioning equipment needs. A JM Roofing Design consultant can work with your project architect, engineers, and specifiers to identify roofing options that achieve the right balance of installation, maintenance and operating costs.

Improve energy efficiency.

Hospital energy costs currently average about $800,000 a year.³ By maximizing the R-value of the building insulation, roofing system, and mechanical insulation, you can achieve a cost-effective solution for optimizing your building's energy performance.