Featured Projects

The University of Texas at Tyler created plans to add a STEM and business building to its expanding campus to attract students from across the country. The original specification called for aluminum composite material (ACM) to match metal wall panels on the College of Pharmacy Building. Cost savings, design options and speed of installation were brought to the table by changing to Shadow Series wall panels from Dri-Design.

CENTRIA Paradigm™ custom-fabricated metal panels define the new addition to the University of Texas Callier Center for Communications Disorders, enabling architects to design and create a structure reminiscent of audio waves.

A Solucent™ woven metal mesh application from Cambridge Architectural provides a first-of-its-kind exterior shading and daylighting system, dramatically reducing solar heat gain and cooling costs for a new facility on the University of Washington’s South Lake Union campus. The facility is part of UW Medicine’s new research hub in the South Lake Union area of Seattle. Cambridge’s Solucent mesh application was installed over the windows on the exterior façade of the building to provide a unique and modern aesthetic, while contributing to substantial energy savings through solar shading.

Central utility plants are usually out of sight, out of mind on most college campuses. The University of Washington’s West Campus Utility Plant (UWCUP) is an exception. A magnet to visitors that showcases the work it does, the illuminated building shines with the help of a translucent wall system from Kingspan Light + Air | CPI Daylighting.

The new UNMC Durham Research Center II (DRC II) is a 10-story tower that’s almost a mirror image of the first Durham Research Center (DRC). The matching towers are joined at the base with a covered walkway and two-story, shell-shaped atrium. Marking the atrium's entry is a striking canopy accented by Champagne and Platinum-finished ACM panels fabricated from Alcoa Architectural Products' Reynobond material.

CENTRIA Concept Series single-skin rainscreen panels enabled the design team with WTW Architects to create a clean, contemporary aesthetic at the new UPMC Logan Medical Center in Altoona, PA. The facility provides advanced outpatient services, primary care, and diagnostic services to communities in the Altoona region.

A world-renowned health care provider and insurer, Pittsburgh-based UPMC provides more care to the region’s most vulnerable citizens than any other health care institution. With the opening of a striking new $20 million outpatient facility in Ebensburg, PA, UPMC is bringing its world-class care to Cambria County residents. Among the materials featured on the project are metal wall panels from IMETCO, finished with premium paints from Sherwin-Williams.

High-end stroller retailer UPPAbaby, based in Rockland, MA, turned to a modern glass and Metl-Span insulated metal panel façade for its new 45,000-square-foot headquarters. The mixed-use project accommodates a warehouse and maintenance workshop, a retail front to conduct direct-to-consumer business, and ample office space.

Originally built in 1956, Cornell University’s Upson Hall was reinvented to meet 21st Century standards for campus planning, learning and research environments, and energy performance. Approximately 29,000 square feet of finished assemblies consisting of Metalwërks'® ornamental metal enclosures and Arcwall™ rainscreen panels were instrumental in transforming the 155,000 square-foot, LEED Platinum® structure.

The Urban Plains Center and Tournament Facility in Fargo, ND, is a 15-acre, $44 million construction project that began June 2007. The single-rink facility was completed in the fall of 2008 with the four-rink facility planned for 2009. The facility has five arenas with ice sheets; 37 locker rooms; 40 luxury suites; 300 club seats; main arena capacities of 6,000 for basketball/volleyball and 5,000 for hockey; a tournament facility that will seat approximately 2,000 for basketball or volleyball and 1,600 for hockey – with three other tournament facilities that seat approximately 800 each. Ceco Building Systems supplied custom-engineered framing for the project.

With state-of-the-art equipment and a sleek new building, Urban Stead Cheese has taken the production of artisan cheeses to a new level. The company's new creamery, located in Cincinnati, OH's Evanston neighborhood, was constructed using insulated metal wall panels from Kingspan to provide not only an optimal production environment, but one that looks good too.

On gameday, when the University of Southern California Trojan men’s and women’s basketball teams battle it out at the Galen Center, upwards of 10,000 fans pack the arena to cheer them on. In between games at this recently opened multi-use facility, located on the campus' west side, volleyball, concerts and many other major events are held. They too draw large crowds.

Situated in a truly majestic setting, the new Animal Teaching and Research Center at Utah State University’s College of Agriculture is unprecedented in terms of its design as well as function. Located north of Wellsville, UT, the 25,000 sq. ft. facility integrates programmatic functions of a meat harvesting facility, animal reproduction laboratory and veterinary clinic with classrooms to provide a hands-on learning environment. The striking structure utilized Metl-Span insulated panels on both the roof and walls. The 4”-thick panels were finished in Terra Cotta and Cool Zinc Gray.

The Utility Line Building is not the most imposing structure on the Northeast Community College campus in Norfolk, Nebraska, but it is one of the most interesting. The 36,800-square-foot facility houses the only indoor utility pole setting lab in the U.S., allowing students to learn year-round the skills required to do work for power and utility companies. Norfolk-based Crafts Inc., an independent authorized Varco Pruden Builder, was the general contractor. Crafts Inc. used a wide variety of VP products, including the pre-engineered metal frame.

Rigid metal fabric from Cambridge Architectural, framed in sleek narrow panels, creates an eye-catching exterior wall and effectively shades the corridor outside the new annex of the Multidisciplinary Studies (MS) Building on the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) campus in San Antonio, TX. The annex, referred to as the MS Renovation and Infill, provides a new location for the University’s Business Auxiliary Services (BAS), which includes the UTSA Card Office, Parking, Transportation and Auxiliary Services Contract Management.

Streaming sunlight and the therapeutic sounds of flowing water add to the ambiance of healing instilled in the design for the new Ambulatory Clinic at the campus of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. The opening of the clinic in March 2007 marked the completion of the first phase of the University's mission to replace its aging hospital and clinical buildings with new, state-of-the-art facilities. Reflecting the modern nature of the medicine practiced within, the exterior of the new structure makes abundant use of glass and Alcoa Architectural Products' Reynobond® aluminum composite material wall panels.

While the school’s history is at the core of its identity, the University of Virginia has maintained its status as one of America’s top public universities by having a clear forward vision. The university's Rice Hall forms a bridge between the campus’ historic structures and the building’s modern mission. The building's exterior is a combination of brick and glass adorned with ALPOLIC aluminum composite material from Mitsubishi Plastics Composites America.

The University of Wisconsin-Platteville has long had a reputation for producing some of the Midwest’s top engineering students and aims to continue that success. The school’s plan is to have Sesquicentennial Hall “transform the way UW-Platteville educates the next generation of engineering leaders.” Thanks to the use of zinc tiles on the exterior, provided by Sheet Metal Supply, the building similarly impacts the school's campus visually too.

The VA Boston Healthcare System, West Roxbury Campus was built in the 1940s and in need of a replacement for its shingled roof. As one of several Veterans Affairs hospitals in the greater Boston area, aesthetics and longevity were both important qualities for any construction materials that would be used on a project of this nature. It’s not surprising that metal roofing – supplied by The Garland Company, Inc. – played a key role in the renovation.

With the original purchase of land approved by President Harry Truman in 1946, and construction completed in 1952, the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Louisville has seen many changes over the years. None have been as dramatic as the new entryway that now greets patrons and families. The 12,600 sq. ft. expansion and renovation project creates a bold new image, partly due to the utilization of RHEINZINK titanium zinc as cladding.