USG Ceilings Plus® - An Overview
Nashville Music City Center | Nashville, TN | Architect: tvsdesign
Founded in 1985 and acquired by USG in 2017, Ceilings Plus® is renowned for their ability to produce customized ceiling and wall panel systems for a wide variety of project types including: airport terminals, convention centers, corporate workplace, higher education, healthcare, sports/recreation, and others.
Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport | Atlanta, GA | Architect: HKS
With emphasis on technological advancement, design integrity, acoustics, and sustainability, Ceilings Plus® is widely recognized as the market leader in developing systems that can materialize even the most challenging designs.
University of Houston - Quiet Hall | Houston, TX | Architect: Gensler
All systems/solutions from USG Ceilings Plus® are developed from a sheet of recycled aluminum that is punched via CNC and formed via automated press brakes. The pairing of these technologies with parametric modeling tools like Grasshopper, allows USG Ceilings Plus® to produce highly custom systems in very large quantities for about the same cost as a standard 2’x4’ metal-tile ceiling.
While it’s true that there are nearly limitless possible ways to configure these ceiling systems, CADE can help you with some key concepts to consider when optimizing a design for a brake-formed metal ceiling system.
Ceilings Plus® offers a wide variety of finishes: paint (standard or matched to a typical paint-chip reference), anodized aluminum (various colors), Saranté® (PVC-free, faux-wood laminate) and Arboreal® (real-wood veneer). And because Ceilings Plus® has modeled their process to accommodate engineered-to-order systems, there are no standard panel sizes: custom is standard, standard is custom.
Warriors Home Locker Room | San Francisco, CA | Architect: Gensler
San Francisco International Airport - Terminal 2 | San Francisco, CA | Architect: Gensler
As opposed to cataloging standardized panel sizes/finishes and asking the architects to design by those parameters, USG Ceilings Plus® excels at developing per-project solutions after reviewing any sketches/renderings available during SD, DD, and/or early CD phases of design.
Combined with CADE’s product experience and architectural guidance, USG Ceilings Plus® empowers designers with tremendous flexibility to confidently present innovative design concepts to clients without fear of constructibility.
United States Courthouse | Bakersfield, CA | Archiect: ZGF
USG Ceilings Plus®
Products: Illusions™, Barz™, Planx™ / Mirra™, WallForms™, Radians®, Beamz™, PARTí™
Strengths: custom-engineered accessible ceilings, large projects, sustainability
Location: Los Angeles, CA