With occupant health and well-being at the forefront of designers’ and specifiers’ minds, mineral fiber ceiling panels retain a long-established foothold in the industry. As the original “all-around solution” for acoustical comfort, suspended mineral fiber has also become the design standard for hospitals and medical facilities, because of their durability, ease of installation and chemically-cleanable finished surfaces.

KAI Build and joint venture partner PARIC Corporation have completed construction on a new 260,000-square-foot Barnes-Jewish West County Hospital in Creve Coeur, Missouri. 

Shannon Enterprises of W.N.Y., Inc., a designer and maker of reusable thermal and acoustic insulation, in partnership with Thomaston, Conn., Shannon Energy Resources, has completed a capital project to save energy for Attleboro, Mass.-based Sturdy Memorial Hospital. 

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) announced that it has selected a 35-acre tract off Brownsboro Road several miles east of downtown Louisville, Kentucky for a new $925 million hospital, expected to be completed in 2018.