UCSD’s Otterson Hall – San Diego
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STONE PANELS PROJECT PROFILE: UCSD OTTERSON HALL UCSD’s Otterson Hall Is Embraced By StoneLite Panels ® Set amongst the coastal beauty making up the campus of the University of California, San Diego, Otterson Hall is the home of the Rady School of Management. A short hang glide from the Pacific Ocean shores of Southern California, the building has been likened to a ship heading out to sea, which is an appropriate image considering the heritage of the university. UCSD is an outgrowth of the famed Scripps Institution of Oceanography that began providing renowned marine science research in the early 1900s. It became one of the ten campuses of the University of California program in 1960, and now sprawls upon 1,200 acres with the ocean and a strong heritage as its backdrops. Although the university has an enrollment of 27,500 students, it received, according to the UCSD News Center, more than 45,000 applications for admission for the 2007 fall semester, driven largely by the school’s worldwide reputation for research. Ironically, it was UCSD’s excellence in the sciences and technology that led to the formation of the Rady School of Management in the late 1990s. Southern California is noted for its cutting edge, technology driven companies, achieving a highly successful berth in the competitive world marketplace. While UCSD was providing brilliant technology educated students to the workplace, few had the business savvy to help lead companies in managerial and financial areas. In San Diego you had one of the most dynamic enterprise centers in the United States without a local university supplying future business lead

“We wanted to use natural stone but we knew that conventional stone cladding would be outside our budget. However, the ease and overall cost of the Stone Panel product made the materials and construction affordable...” A solution to that roadblock became the cornerstone for establishing a school of management at the university. The StoneLite® limestone cladding was enhanced by a custom "raked" finish to the natural stone. Civic leaders raised more than $90 million in private funds to help build a world class faculty and facility, including major contributions from Ernest Rady and the Rady...

STONE PANELS PROJECT PROFILE: UCSD OTTERSON HALL More than 21,150 square feet of StoneLite® panels were installed on the exterior walls of Otterson Hall and along exterior elevator lobbies and landings. were appropriate. The use of stone also helped anchor the building.” “We wanted to use natural stone but we knew that conventional stone cladding would be outside our budget. However, the ease and overall cost of the Stone Panel product made the materials and construction affordable,“ Kaminski said. “We also used Stone Panel products in the lobby and elevator area because of its durability...

“StoneLite®, compared to conventional stone, has lower installation costs and offers far greater design flexibility, both of which was ideal for the Otterson Hall project at UCSD,“ said Don Schroeder, Stone Panels Inc., Vice President. “StoneLite®, compared to conventional stone, has lower installation costs and offers far greater design flexibility, both of which was ideal for the Otterson Hall project at UCSD,“ said Don Schroeder, Stone Panels Inc., Vice President. “The lighter weight of StoneLite® put less load on the structure of Otterson Hall and thus helped us better deal with...