January 26, 2007—Replicating important traditional southern architecture was the reason Belmont University, a beautiful private liberal arts university in Nashville, Tennessee, turned to Dryvit EIFS to clad the university’s newest building, the Gordon Inman Center for heath services.
The 55,000, four-story building offering state-of-the-art classroom and research laboratory facilities represented a significant design challenge for the university and the building team selected for the project, according to Dryvit. Merging the needs of modern educational facilities with the desire to make the building look like the other buildings on campus, the university turned to Dryvit EIFS.
Performance values, like the energy efficiency achieved with the Dryvit EIFS and solid life cycle benefits, were also important to the university. While the Inman Center is the newest building on the campus, it is not the only example of how Belmont University has turned to Dryvit for their needs. The Massey Center also features Dryvit cladding, and has stood the test of time for the 15 years of its life on campus.
J.L. Lewis Construction of Nashville was the applicator of the Dryvit EIFS. For more information, visit the Dryvit Web site.
