Insulation inside hospital walls

By Claire Trageser
Featured in the October 2010 Spray Foam Magazine

Jerry Prager, the owner of Waukesha, Wisc.-based MasterFoam Insulation company, was contracted by Oscar J. Boldt Construction to install spray polyurethane foam (SPF) to precise concrete wall panels in two new five-floor hospital towers. The job the lay before him was not going to be easy. Prager and his five-man crew would need to install a huge area-50,000 square feet (4,645.2m2)of SPF while working around other trades and staying prepared for some nasty weather conditions. Plus, the job needed to meet Air Barrier Association of America (ABAA) standards.

Click on the link below to read the article on how MasterFoam applied closed-cell spray foam using a Graco Fusion® CS spray gun and two Reactors®, a Graco E-30 and a Graco H-20/35 to meet architects’ specifications and ABAA standards. Additional information is highlighted about the Fusion CS Gun and MasterFoam Insulation’s participation in an OHSA’s (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) federal evaluation of SPF chemical risk factors.

Insulation Inside Hospital Walls

Armory turned cool community center

By Jack Innis
Featured in the December 2010 Spray Foam Magazine

O’Neill Hall, former National Guard Massachusetts Militia Volunteers Armory, was transformed into the Fitchburg Senior Center. City planners soon found that the heating system was not able to adequately heat the center during winter activities.

Since this is a historical building, this project also had additional considerations such as providing a solution to meet the requirements of the architect and the Massachusetts Historical Commisssion. Click on the link below to find out how FoamRun, an SPF contractor, was able to apply spray foam using a Graco Fusion® Air Purge spray gun and Graco Reactor® E-30 proportioners.

Armory Turned Cool Community Center

NEW DIGS! SPF contractor insulates LEED-aspiring home

By Jessica A Baris
Featured in the December 2010 Spray Foam Magazine

A newly constructed 4,500 square feet home needed SPF insulation to earn Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification points. Click on the link below to see how SealRite Spray Foam applied Demilec’s Heatlok Soy closed-cell foam with three Graco Reactor E-30 proportioners and were able to meet the requirements for LEED on the first inspection.

NEW DIGS! SPF Contractor Insulates LEED-Aspiring Home

Graco® Reactor® used in World Trade Center project

Airseal Insulation Systems of Brooklyn, NY used a Graco Reactor E-30 to apply spray polyurethane foam (SPF) to help build One World Trade Center in New York City, according to a recent article in SprayFoam magazine.

Because of critical deadlines, the concrete for One World Trade Center needed to be poured in sub-freezing weather. The forms needed to be insulated or the concrete wouldn’t cure properly. Using Graco equipment, Airseal Insulation Systems insulated the concrete form for the core shaft of the building. Read more

Coming Soon: New proportioner packages

New Reactor proportioner packages with Graco^® Fusion^® CS, Fusion^® AP or Probler^® P2 guns will be available in the near future. Distributors: watch for an official Graco product bulletin in early July giving exact availability and pricing information.

The part numbers for the new packages are included in the table below: