Tucker Road Ice Rink

Tucker Road Ice Rink

Application: Walls

Building Type: Civic

The Tucker Road Ice Rink, an indoor rink in Ft. Washington Maryland is owned and operated by the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission’s Department of Parks and Recreation. After a 2-alarm fire damage a significant portion of the structure in 2017, the Parks and Rec decided to renovate and expand the facility to expand precious ice time for community recreational skating, figure skating and ice hockey. The new 48,800 SF facility will feature a NHL-sized ice rink with seating bleachers for 300–350 spectators. The state-of-the-art facility is loaded with changing rooms, locker rooms dance studios, meeting rooms and even a party event room.

PPSI supported the building envelop design with the use of BASF Walltite’s insulating spray polyurethane foam system, providing a high-performance building envelope to wrap the new facility. The 2-pound density, closed cell sprayed foam provided the building a dual function air barrier and thermal barrier meeting the true definition of continuous insulation.

The Walltite SPF provides a high R-Value/inch and is fully bonded to the substrate, without gaps, joints or seams common to board stock insulation products. The Walltite was covered with the Fire Shell Intumescent Coating to meet the rigorous NFPA 285 fire safety code adopted by the State of Maryland. The Code upgrade protects building’s by substantially reducing the risk of fire propagation in exterior cavity walls.

The final cladding on the main building was a NEXGEN Mosaic modular gauge metal panels system, also represented by PPSI. The metal wall panel system eliminated the fire rated phenolic core of ACM panels in lieu of a heavy metal folded panel with an integral cleat. The cleat provides a quick alignment for install, locking in the bottom of the panel and screwing off to the subframing the top. The 5/8” joint reveal add depth to the traditional ACM route and return. The Grimm & Parker design created a beautiful 3-color, blend of random bond “cool” blue, gray and white panels in a linear plank format. The exciting color scheme with the blue tinted glazing panels evoke the clean, cool lines one would expect in an ice rink.