Mutual Brick Selected for Future Hospital Expansions

For the fifteenth consecutive year, Cleveland Clinic has been ranked No. 1 in the nation for heart care according to the 2009 U.S News & World Report, “America’s Best Hospitals” survey. Since 1994 no other hospital in the country has ranked higher than Cleveland Clinic for cardio care. The survey also ranked Cleveland Clinic as one of the best hospitals overall – ranked at No. 4 nationally.

So with billions of dollars in research grant money, Cleveland Clinic is on a building spree. And they have selected Mutual Materials’ Granite smooth colored face brick on three state of the art health and research facilities in and around the greater Cleveland area.

The first project to select Mutual brick was the Global Cardiovascular Innovation Center (GCIC) that broke ground in the fall of 2009. As one can imagine, competition was fierce. Our distributor in the area, The Thomas Brick Co., reported that local area brick manufacturers and distributors were “pulling out all the stops” in trying to supply product on such a high profile project - not to mention a severe recession in this area that has suppliers scrambling to find business. But in the end, a determined effort by Thomas Brick was able to convince the architect and ownership that no one in the US has a color quite like Mutual’s granite brick. It is a singular color made up of a white clay body with a dark speckle. It was a perfect fit for the simplistic, modern building design envisioned by the designers.

Building number two is the Family Health & Surgery Center located in the Cleveland suburb of Twinsburg. At nearly four times the square footage, this project will require about four times as much brick as the GCIC. A third project, the Family Health Center in Avon, OH will feature an approximate three-fold use in brick over the original GCIC. Again, both projects feature very modernistic design for which Mutual’s Granite brick color is uniquely suited.

There is currently a fourth building in the design phase. With the momentum gained from the first three buildings, it looks as if Mutual Materials will continue to play an important role in the expansion plans in one of our nation’s top health care providers.

Steve Hubbard
Distributor Sales Manager