Design Assistance
System core providing the structural capacity and attachment points for the architectural precast façade and windows to the structure.
We've Perfected the Art of Prefabrication
A lightweight, resilient façade system that’s disrupting the industry.
GateLite is a lean architectural concrete skin offering many of the design options found with traditional architectural precast. This all-inclusive system has a complete thermal, vapor and air barrier and eliminates on-site labor hours, as fabrication and assembly is performed safely on the ground prior to delivery. With GateLite, design teams can now create a true work of art.
Attachment to the structure to provide bearing connection for the system, typically two bearing points per panel.
Attachment to the structure to provide lateral support for the system, typically multiple points per panel.
Incorporated into the system in a controlled environment at GATE fabrication facilities.
HFO closed cell polyurethane foam with zero ozone depletion sprayed on at GATE fabrication facilities.
Casts directly to the mainframe resulting in a lighter-weight system.
Mainframe
System core providing the structural capacity and attachment points for the architectural precast façade and windows to the structure.
Gravity Connection
Attachment to the structure to provide bearing connection for the system, typically two bearing points per panel.
Lateral Connection
Attachment to the structure to provide lateral support for the system, typically multiple points per panel.
Pre-Glazed Windows
Incorporated into the system in a controlled environment at GATE fabrication facilities.
Insulation
HFO closed cell polyurethane foam with zero ozone depletion sprayed on at GATE fabrication facilities.
Thin Architectural Façade
Casts directly to the mainframe resulting in a lighter-weight system.
Maeve Raleigh, NC
Maeve sets a new standard for architectural precast concrete buildings in Raleigh, NC.
Baptist Hospital Campus Pensacola, FL
The GateLite architectural precast façade system was selected by Baptist Health’s new campus in Florida to meet high velocity wind zone requirements, improve jobsite safety, compress schedule and reduce the project’s carbon footprint.
Pullman at Gulch Union Nashville, TN
Pullman at Gulch Union, a 28-story mixed-used office tower designed by HKS, Inc. in Nashville is being constructed with GateLite — a durable, lightweight façade solution ideally suited for today’s fast-paced and environmentally conscious construction market.
Virgin Hotels New Orleans New Orleans, LA
GATE collaborated with the architectural team of CallisonRTKL & Mathes Brierre Architects to develop a façade system for a 14-story Virgin Hotel that would match the surrounding historic masonry warehouse-style architecture.
Ransom Everglades STEM Center Coral Gables, FL
GATE collaborated with Perkins+Will to design a façade system that imposed no more than 48psf dead load, serve as a rain barrier, convey three-dimensional architectural surface articulation and withstand the high velocity wind zone.
Product Details
You get everything, without compromising anything.
GateLite is a unitized system providing a complete façade that meets or exceeds energy and code requirements, while offering performance and design flexibility that can be customized per project. Finished and unitized with glass and insulation for a complete thermal, vapor and air barrier, GateLite eliminates on-site labor hours, with fabrication and assembly safely performed on the ground prior to delivery.
- Single-source contracting and warranty
- Prefabricated assemblies enhance quality control and resiliency
- Highly energy-efficient envelope with complete air, thermal, and vapor barrier
- Compressed schedule
- Reduced on-site man-hours and safety risks
- Lightweight system can achieve higher window-to-wall ratios
- Structurally glazed unitized fixed and/or operable windows
- Reduced structural loads and crane capacity
- Reduced carbon footprint by over 70% compared to traditional window-punched precast
- Environmental Product Declaration
- NFPA 285 Compliant
Case Studies
Maeve
Maeve sets a new standard for architectural precast concrete buildings in Raleigh, NC. The luxury mixed-use 20-story high-rise multi-family tower is a groundbreaking development that showcases a combination of traditional architectural precast concrete and GateLite. Using GateLite allowed for faster installation, reduced crane size, and reduced dry-in time as well as provided the ability to factory install windows. Additionally, GateLite harmonized the project’s speed to market with the project’s sustainability goals by improving quality control, creating safer working conditions, reducing waste and energy, and creating healthier working environments.
Baptist Hospital Campus
The new $636-million Baptist Hospital Campus owes part of its project’s success to being built for the future. Situated on 57 acres, the main 264-bed hospital and six-story health center towers feature GateLite, a thin architectural façade system that reduces the structure’s carbon footprint and is finished and unitized with glazing and insulation for a complete thermal, vapor, and air barrier.
Baptist Hospital Achieves Sustainable Design Through Prefabrication
ENR details how prefabrication brings sustainable, cost-saving, and labor advantages to a project.
Ransom Everglades School STEM Center
Located in Coral Gables, FL, one of the principles behind the design of the Ransom Everglades School STEM Center is a lighter-weight structure, designed to meet the criteria for its location in a high-velocity wind zone. GATE collaborated with Perkins&Will to design a façade system that imposed no more than 48 psf dead load, served as a barrier system, and conveyed a sharp three-dimensional architectural surface articulation.