Hurricane-damaged hotel uses QuadCore to surpass code in reconstruction
Kingspan Insulated Panels North America announces that its QuadCore Technology was specified for a complete rebuild of the Holiday Inn in Panama City, Florida, after Hurricane Michael damaged the building in October of 2018. The Category 5 storm battered the structure so badly it knocked the building out of plumb, shredded the exterior stucco and blasted guest rooms with rain and 150 mph wind gusts.
The $20 million reconstruction of the Holiday Inn Panama City required a quick nine-month turnaround time as the hotel needed to be open by the first of June to accommodate tourists visiting during the busy summer season. Kingspan’s Benchmark Designwall 4000 panels were ordered with QuadCore in January, shipped in March and the hotel was up and running by June – half the average time frame for a Kingspan panel order.