Featured Projects

The overall winner in the Mid-West Steel Building Company 2011 Design Build competition was the 50,000 sq. ft. Bayou City Event Center, in Houston, Texas. The general contractor was LoneStar Construction of Houston, the erector and roofing contractor was L&Y Construction, and the designer was Husmann and Associates Architects & Planners PC. The building is owned by SSS Land Development, Lori Schroeder.

Bayside Village is an off-campus student housing community in Portland, ME. The 200,000 sq. ft. building, serving students from any of six colleges in the Portland area, was designed to both stand out and blend with Portland's architectural vernacular. Among the products incorporated into its design was Citadel's ProCore™ plastic-cored composite panels.

To create a design that reflected the affluence and progressiveness of one of Cleveland, OH's most desirable suburbs, City Architecture of Cleveland utilized 10,000 sq. ft of zinc wall panels for the two-story addition to the City of Beachwood Municipal Complex. The preweathered metal, in a blue-grey color, was manufactured by RHEINZINK.

Boats are out and people are in at The Beacon at Lighthouse Point, a unique adaptive re-use project near the Baltimore Marine Center marina. When it was constructed in the 1990s, the four-story building that now houses 54 luxury condominiums and a parking garage was a boatel that stored 160 boats.

Approximately 1,000 sq. ft. of RHEINZINK® 0.8mm/22 gauge prefabricated 400 Series Square Tile finished in Preweathered Blue-Gray highlight the new Beacon Park Pavilion in Sidney, Vancouver Island, British Columbia. The layered, shell-like pavilion is a high-tech structure that recalls the traditional craft of shipbuilding. Four taut, thin wooden shells clad with RHEINZINK are stretched over structural ribs of engineered wood.

Business owner Kevin Larson and wife Sue decided their tiny town of Hackensack, Minnesota, needed its own entertainment, a business that would allow residents and nearby townspeople to enjoy a movie in town, at the same time building the economy of Hackensack. To bring their Bear Pause Theater idea to reality, they hired Kuepers Construction of Baxter, Minnesota, as architect and general contractor, using Ceco Building Systems products and expertise. The 13,268 square-foot pre-engineered steel building was completed in seven months.

The name has changed, as has the building, but the legacy behind the Beaufort County Courthouse in Beaufort, SC endures. And thanks to recent renovations, which included the installation of a new zinc roof from IMETCO, the courthouse's rich history will most assuredly live on for another century or more.

More than 50,000 sq. ft. of PAC-CLAD® flat stock was used to create flat seam panels that provide a striking look for Beautiful Savior Lutheran Church in Plymouth, MN. The panels were fabricated and installed by Atomic Sheet Metal, Vadnais Heights, MN. Approximately 1,200 sheets of 4’ x 10’ PAC-CLAD material finished in Colonial Red and Weathered Zinc were utilized. The flat seam panels were generally 22” wide by 116” tall.The project was a major Phase II expansion of church facilities to include a new 900-seat sanctuary, administrative offices and classroom space.

The Beimdiek Recreation Center in Joplin, Missouri is a retrofit of an existing structure and an addition. Upon its completion, the project soon won an architecture and design award and now sets the standard for subsequent construction on campus, while fitting in with the existing campus environment. Featured on the recreation center are vertical and horizontal metal wall panel systems from CENTRIA.

The Bell County Expo Equestrian Center is an equine livestock complex that is located on the west side of the expo campus in Belton, Texas. Featuring Rigid Frame, Continuous Beam and WideBay framing by Varco Pruden Buildings, the new facility measures 170,440 sq. ft.

Elegant expanses of metal fabric from Cambridge Architectural glamorize the exterior of a newly constructed $118 million employee parking garage at the world renowned Bellagio hotel and casino in booming Las Vegas, NV. The towering 10 story, 5,160-space garage features a Cambridge Architectural Parkade™ mesh application that maintains the European style of Bellagio, adding a chic, upscale flare. Mimicking the famed Bellagio fountains, the gleaming metal fabric appears to ebb and flow, gracefully cascading down the structure. At night, the mesh is bathed in reflected exterior lighting, creating a brilliant, luminous effect that complements the Bellagio signage.

Ronstan Tensile Architecture, an end-to-end specialty contractor of tensile architecture, demonstrated the benefits of its cable-stayed construction on the Bellevue Skybridge in Bellevue, WA. The Bellevue Skybridge functions as a lightweight, steel-framed, cable-stayed skybridge over Bellevue Way that provides easy pedestrian access between Lincoln Square and Bellevue Square.

The new Bells Mill Elementary School in Potomac, MD is designed to encourage a flexible approach to education that accommodates changing programs, interdisciplinary teaching methods and efficient, cost-effective use of space. Featured on the school are approximately 18,000 sq. ft. of 12” x 1.5” aluminum PAC-CLAD Snap-On Batten metal wall panels and 2,500 sq. ft. of PAC-850 Soffit Panels by Petersen. Colors included Hemlock Green, Colonial Red, Sandstone and Slate Gray.

Creating a welcoming, accessible and enduring facility for the City of Edmonton's riders, the new Belvedere Transit Centre features RHEINZINK prePATINA® graphite-gray material on both the roof and exterior wall cladding systems.

The new $1.2 billion Benicia-Martinez, Calif., Bridge is a 1.6 mile long, five-lane bridge spanning the Carquinez Strait between Contra Costa and Solano counties. The Benicia-Martinez toll plaza incorporates unique curvilinear forms and a changing color scheme in its design. The plaza features approximately 55,000 square feet of Alucobond® Aluminum Composite Material by Alcan Composites USA, in the 4mm thickness and Copper Metallic color and 6,000 square feet of Alucobond in the 4mm thickness and Shimmering Teal color, to clad the building walls and canopies.

The new Bennett Town Hall in Bennett, Colorado is a stylish complex that was constructed with a Rigid Frame metal building system from Varco Pruden Buildings. The facility was selected as the Best of Government Winner in the 2019 Varco Pruden Hall Of Fame presentation.

This contemporary new residence near the ocean in Ft. Lauderdale, FL is partially clad with a unique wall panel system fabricated from RHEINZINK’s PROTECT LINE of architectural zinc. The PROTECT LINE has a clear coating that provides durable surface protection in aggressive climates. The transparent coating slows down the aging process and preserves the initial appearance of the zinc.

Berrien Springs School District's Virtual Learning Academy is taking public education to the next level. The recently opened facility, which offers area students both traditional on-site education and online courses, features the latest advances in technology, design and materials, including storefront systems manufactured by Tubelite.

The Bertram and Judith Kohl Building, the new home for the Jazz Studies Program at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, is a virtual rhapsody in Reynobond® ACM. Planning for a new building to house the rapidly growing Jazz Studies Program began in 2005. Recently completed, it is expected to soon become the nation's first LEED® Gold Music Studies building.

The Beth Tfiloh Lower School in Baltimore was moving from an attractive off-site location to the main campus and wanted its new building to be fun and inviting for the students. Approximately 8,500 sq. ft. of Dri-Design panels finished in three complementary colors and installed in a checkerboard pattern helped to achieve the desired effect. The Dri-Design Wall Panel System is an economy-minded dry joint, pressure-equalized rainscreen system. In the case of the Beth Tfiloh school, the .080" aluminum panels were finished in Colonial Red, Burgundy and Mansard Brown colors.