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INSULATED PANEL SYSTEMS FOR AVIATION HANGARS

Hangar envelopes built for wide spans, big door openings, and Texas heat. PanelTX supplies and installs insulated metal wall and roof panels for aircraft hangars, MRO shops, and FBO facilities — plus acoustic panel systems for engine run-up and test areas.

— OUR SOLUTIONS

What We Build for Aviation Facilities

HANGAR WALL & ROOF PANELSKingspan KS Shadowline insulated metal panels up to R-48. Long-span panels cut secondary framing, and the factory finish means no interior liner trades behind you.

CLIMATE-CONTROLLED MRO & PAINT BAYSInsulated, temperature-controlled maintenance and paint bays that hold cure temperatures and keep humidity in spec through a Texas summer.

ACOUSTIC & RUN-UP ENCLOSURESSound barrier panel systems for engine run-up areas, ground power units, and equipment yards. Installed on site, with no concrete slab required.

OFFICE, PARTS & CREW SPACEInsulated partition walls for hangar offices, parts cages, and crew rooms — built inside the hangar shell with no wet trades and no downtime on the floor.

— BIG SPANS, BIG OPENINGS, BIG HEAT LOAD

Why Hangars Are a Hard Envelope Problem

A hangar is a large volume with an enormous hole in one wall, which makes it one of the least forgiving buildings to condition. Three things follow from that.

Span drives the structure. Long-span insulated panels reduce the secondary framing needed to support them, which takes weight and cost out of the structure and leaves fewer joints in the envelope. Fewer joints means fewer thermal breaks and fewer places to detail.

The door undoes your conditioning. Every time a hangar door opens you exchange the entire volume of air. The insulated shell is what lets the space recover quickly instead of running all day trying to catch up — a well-insulated hangar and a bare metal one behave completely differently after a door cycle, even with identical mechanical systems.

Some spaces inside need real control. Paint and coatings work has cure temperature and humidity requirements that a general hangar volume will never hold. Building a conditioned bay inside the hangar shell is far cheaper than trying to condition the whole building to that standard, and it is straightforward with insulated partition panels.

The same construction handles the surrounding work: offices, parts cages, and crew rooms built inside the shell with no wet trades, and acoustic enclosures for engine run-up areas and ground power units.

— COMMON QUESTIONS

Aviation Hangar Questions

Can you insulate an existing hangar?Yes. Retrofitting an insulated panel liner into an existing metal hangar is common, and it changes how the space recovers after every door cycle. It is usually the cheapest large improvement available to an older facility.

Can you build a climate-controlled paint bay?Yes. Conditioning a dedicated bay inside the hangar shell is far cheaper than conditioning the whole volume to cure-temperature and humidity requirements, and insulated partition panels make it straightforward.

What about noise from engine run-up?Sound barrier panel enclosures handle run-up areas and ground power units. They install on site without a slab, and the airflow and access have to be designed in from the start or the enclosure will not get used.

Can you add offices without shutting the hangar?Yes. Insulated partition walls go up inside the shell with no wet trades and minimal disruption to the floor, which is what makes them practical in a working MRO facility.

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