As we begin the new year, we want to thank our customers, our installing partners, architects, engineers, hospital groups, school districts, community colleges, and wall and ceiling manufacturers who help make our business successful.
Here are the latest product enhancements we have made to our GRIDLOK® OPM for suspended ceiling bracing:
1. INCREASED RANGE
Increased the range of bracing to walls to 0° to 60° - this is the most flexible of any approved solution. The addition to the product range of BC-30s make this possible. See the photo below of an installation at one of two Kaiser Permanente projects that have used the BC-30 option. You can see here that the compression post is in its usual position. One brace attached to the post goes to the BC-30 wall bracket sitting inside the 600S, while the other brace goes to the deck.
2. ADVANCESPAN INTEGRATION
We’ve added integration with USG’s corridor product Advancespan. This combination enables crowded corridors to have zero wires and using GRIDLOK®, just a single brace, and a post. See our description of this solution at Kindred UC Davis Healthcare Rehabilitation Hospital.
3. MULTIPLE LAYERS OF GYPSUM BOARD SCREW DETAIL
We've added the screw details for the situation where there are multiple layers of gypsum board (sheets 15A and 15B of our latest OPM) which is dated 12/20/2022.
Customer feedback
With significant new sites during the year, it’s always great to get applause from our installer community. On the successful completion of the Crawford High School project, where we worked closely with Turner Construction, Gary Turner at CMS had this to say:
“We used GRIDLOK® seismic ceiling bracing brackets with great success on a ground-up multistory DSA high school project here in San Diego. Due to the extremely crowded overhead conditions, using conventional methods with a seismic post and four splay wires would have been extremely difficult and time-consuming.
GRIDLOK® requires only two brace arms and an integrated compression post. With the ability to rotate the grid clip and adjust the angle of the braces, we achieved code-compliant seismic bracing with less cost and time.
I recommend GRIDLOK® seismic ceiling bracing for any DSA school or HCAI (OSHPD) hospital project. A huge bonus was the lead time - once they were ordered, we received all shipments into our warehouse within two days of placing the orders.
I also can’t say enough about how great the technical support is. They are extremely knowledgeable about their product capability and provided valuable documents right away, so we were able to get these approved for the project.
They’ve done their homework and have the testing and engineering to back it up.”
Gary Turner CMS Interiors
Finally…
Those attending “CASH” in Sacramento February 22-24, we look forward to seeing you!