Air-ambulance gets new hangar

by Jonathan McGaha | July 31, 2010 12:00 am

More than 1,200 critically injured or ill patients are served annually by the air-ambulance operations affiliated with Milwaukee Regional Medical Center. Flight for Life has a fleet of three, all-weather, medically- configured helicopters with one each based at McHenry, Ill., Fond du Lac, Wis., and this newest hangar with space for maintenance, a corporate communications center and offices at Waukesha County Airport-Crites Field in Wisconsin.

The building was a design/build project led by Anderson-Ashton Inc., a Butler Builder for the past 51 years in New Berlin, Wis. The Butler Widespan building system from Butler Manufacturing, Kansas City, Mo., is fitted with an MR-24 standing-seam metal roof system. It consists of 120- by 70- by 26-foot (37- by 21- by 8-m) and 120- by 60- by 26- foot (37- by 21- by 8-m) adjoining segments that include a two-story office front. The framing was engineered to accommodate a 3-ton (2.7-metric ton) underhung crane in the 120-foot clear span hangar whose footprint will accept up to two helicopters and a fixed-wing aircraft. Wilson Doors Inc., Elkhorn, Wis., supplied the 90-foot (27-m) wide bi-fold door that is skinned with Shell Gray Shadowall. The balance of the building’s wall applied Flat StyWall II with a Santa Ana Blue finish and Gray Texture- Wall panels at the front of the building to achieve a stucco-like character.

Butler Manufacturing, www.butlermfg.com
Wilson Doors, www.wilsondoors.com

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