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Case Studies
Valley Baptist Medical Center
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Valley Baptist Medical Center (VBMC) sustained
extensive wind and water damage when
Hurricane Dolly made landfall as a category
2 storm along the South Texas coast. The
storm’s powerful winds caused roof and
expansion joint failures and broke nearly
200 windows at the Harlingen, Texas hospital.
Rainwater invaded every part of the hospital’s
two million-square-feet facility. As a result,
the hospital suffered approximately $20 million
in property damage.
Processing plant is construction ready 30 days after record floods
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Record flooding of the Cedar River and
mandatory evacuations forced Penford Products
to temporarily close its 27-acre Cedar Rapids,
Iowa plant.
Polk School District in Cedartown, Georgia
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Cotton meets school district
timeline… even when project
scope increases
Polk School District in Cedartown, Georgia
had recently started its summer break
when fire roared through the 48,000-
square-foot Westside Elementary. The
fire destroyed two classrooms and caused
extensive smoke and water damage in
the cinder block building, totaling $5 million.
Hospital reopens to serve community after water damage
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CHRISTUS St. John Hospital, a 170-bed
full-service acute care hospital located
across from the NASA-Johnson Space
Center in Nassau Bay, Texas, suffered
catastrophic water damage during
Hurricane Ike. Sustained winds of 110 mph
rearranged the hospital’s flat, membrane
roofing system – a large cloth-like covering.
As a result, tens of thousands of gallons
of rainwater didn’t drain properly,
but rather poured into approximately
300,000-square-feet of the four-story
medical facility.
Galveston turns to Cotton after Hurricane Ike
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Despite emergency preparedness training,
there was no way the County of Galveston,
Texas, could have anticipated the fury of
Hurricane Ike.
Fire destroys window manufacturing facility
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Champion Window, manufacturer of aluminum
and vinyl windows, sustained heavy fire,
soot and smoke damage following a threealarm
fire at its 200,000-square-foot facility
in Houston, Texas.
Factory operations continue …even as fabricators are "floored" by cleanup overhead
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A weekend fire at Epoxyn Products, a
subsidiary of Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.,
caused extensive smoke and water
damage at this Arkansas factory that
manufactures and fabricates laboratory
surfaces for research, educational and
healthcare use. The fire started in the
three-story tower area where resins are
mixed. With the tower area in the center
of this plant that is all under one roof,
the entire 155,000-square-foot facility
sustained damage.
BMC West reopens just two days after roof collapse
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BMC West, supplier of quality building
materials – including doors, millwork and
windows – experienced an unexpected roof
collapse during heavy, late summer rains.
Its beautiful 15,000-square-foot showroom
and adjacent supply store, frequented by
homebuilders and remodelers throughout
central Texas, was now a mangle of wooden
trusses, ceiling tiles, electrical wiring, lighting
and more. Moreover, water rushed down the
stairway from the ground floor showroom,
flooding the offices below.
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