Featured Projects

Michigan State University’s Butterfield Hall was first opened in 1953. It is named for Kenyon Butterfield, an MSU graduate who also served as President of the university between 1924 and 1928. Starting in 2013, the dormitory facility underwent some major improvements including updates to the interior and exterior of the building – highlighted by metal products from CENTRIA.

When Brigham Young Academy was founded in 1875, it was the equivalent of what today would be considered a high school. The ambition shown by the school's board of directors then can still be found in the decisions of campus leaders today, including the one to replace the institution's cramped College of Life Sciences building with a bigger and better facility…a facility that features ALPOLIC® material aluminum composite metal wall panels.

The Chicago flagship operation of logistics provider C.H. Robinson opened its doors to employees in August 2018 as the first anchor tenant in the Lincoln Yards revitalization development near the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago. This modern office building reflects its riverfront location with a design that emulates the flow of water with undulating fins fabricated from ALUCOBOND® Plus aluminum composite material by 3A Composites USA.

A huge project at the Air National Guard Base in Martinsburg, WV, is underway to prepare the 167th Airlift Wing for the arrival of 11 C-5 Galaxy aircraft. The C-5 is one of the largest aircraft in the world and the largest airlifter in the Air Force inventory. More than $190 million in federal funding has been invested at the facility to construct new hangars, fuel lines and a flight simulator. One of the new hangars is for aircraft maintenance. Utilized for its construction was 70,000 sq. ft. of Metl-Span CF-42 Mesa insulated metal wall panels. The general contractor on the project was Clark Construction, Bethesda, MD. The design team consisted of CH2M HILL, Herndon, VA and DMJM Design, San Francisco, CA.

Design for the new Cabela’s store in Gainesville, Va. reflects the company’s well-known lodge-inspired theme featuring high ceilings, raw exposed wood, stone masonry and, of course, the chain’s signature green roof. In this case, more than 20,000 sq. ft. of Petersen’s 22 gauge Snap-Clad panels finished in custom color East Georgia Green were used.

When you know you can do a good job and you know you’re working with good products, you don’t mind being held accountable. On Top Roofing of Park City, Utah, recently completed a demanding roofing project and supplied the homeowners association with a watertight warranty from Drexel Metals.

A museum devoted to exploring and expanding creativity must have an eye-catching design, and that’s certainly the case for the recently opened Cade Museum for Creativity + Invention in Gainesville, Fla. With its cylindrical core and extending arcs, it almost appears to be in motion – a sense of movement reinforced by the running lines of the structure’s corrugated metal wall and roof panels from Petersen.

A pair of large Schweiss Doors hydraulic crane doors were a key component in the erection of a new metal building designed to house two 30-ton, 60-foot cranes and two 20-ton, 43-foot bridge cranes.

The new Cal Poly University Recreation Center in San Luis Obispo, CA has a welcoming design brought to life with Kalzip metal roofing. The 165,700 sq. ft. facility expands recreational and sports opportunities for students and faculty at California Polytechnic State University as well as members of the surrounding community.

Officials in Boulder, CO are serious about energy efficiency. With the goal to have net-zero homes—homes which produce as much energy as they consume—homeowners there are turning increasingly to rooftop solar. This is good news for metal roofing manufacturers and companies like Colorado Springs-based S-5!, maker of a solar panel installation kit that facilitates the attachment of solar panels to metal roofs, typically without penetrating the metal panel surface or affecting the roof system warranty.

The plain box is no more. And it's partly because of energy efficient, cost-efficient and attractive insulated metal panel systems like those from Kingspan Insulated Panels. The company's KS Shadowline insulated metal panels were recently specified for the Caledon Industrial Park in Caledon, Ontario, Canada. In addition to being a candidate for LEED® Silver certification, the building is a definite cut above the usual in terms of aesthetics.

PPG Duranar™ coatings are among those featured on one of the most anticipated buildings of 2018 - the new Calgary Central Library in Calgary, Canada. The architects selected PPG Duranar coatings for the window frames and other extruded aluminum components to evoke snowflakes or ice cracking on a lake.

When the CDCR bid out the new California Health Care Facility inmate hospital in Stockton, scheduling was seen as one of the keys to the project’s success, with logistics and accessibility being major challenges as well. It was with those things in mind that insulated standing seam panels from All Weather Insulated Panels were proposed in lieu of traditional metal roofing for nearly two-thirds of the planned 1.2 million square feet of new construction.

Studies show that bright buildings can produce bright students. At the new College of Business Administration at California State University – San Marcos (CSUSM), they produce significant energy savings, too. That’s because the building, designed by Gail Bouvrie, AIA, of AC Martin Partners in Los Angeles, is one of the first buildings in the country to feature Solarban 70XL glass, a revolutionary solar control Low-E glass from PPG. Another PPG product, Duranar coatings, was used to protect and beautify the aluminum extrusions used in the window and door frames and other metal architectural components.

There are reasons why California is known for producing some of the world's finest wines. And there are reasons why insulated metal panel systems—like those available from Kingspan Insulated Panels—are go-to products when it comes to wine storage and production facilities.

CENTRIA’s Formawall® high-performance building envelope effectively enabled the design team at Renaissance 3 Architects to achieve Caliguiri Plaza’s modern, vibrant façade — and to integrate the structure with the neighborhood.

Calvary Chapel is a 19,000 square foot church building located in Corvallis, OR. The entire project included four buildings with astute consideration given to the location of church sanctuary and fellowship hall to minimize the impact of the surrounding natural topography so that minimal trees and vegetation were removed. A metal building system by Metallic Building Company was chosen because of the flexibility to incorporate original design using large clear spans, canopies, purlin extensions and special roof loading for sound and lighting equipment.

Calvary Christian School is a state-of-the-art educational facility with plenty of room to grow. Completed in June 2007, the building features more than 8,000 sq. ft. of unfinished space on its second floor. The school was designed by Omega Church Consultants using a pre-engineered metal building system and components by Metallic Building Co., Houston, TX. In addition to providing economy in terms of its initial construction costs, the school's extensive use of metal wall and roof systems ensures little maintenance will be required to keep the building's exterior in tip top condition.

Religious facilities are a specialty of Virginia Beach, VA's Barnes Design Group. When it was commissioned to design a massive addition for the Calvary Revival Church in Norfolk, VA, the firm used materials of permanence to craft a decidedly contemporary look. Among the products and materials it relied on to achieve its design goals were approximately 16,000 sq. ft. of Envelope 2000® rout and return wall panels from Citadel Architectural Products. Provided in Silver Metallic, Matte Black and Princely Purple colors, the panels highlight newly created entrances and entryway design features.

The first-ever Cambria Suites hotel has opened in Boise, ID. What’s noteworthy about this project from a metal construction standpoint is that it utilizes approximately 12,000 sq. ft. of Citadel Architectural Products’ Envelope 2000 metal composite material panels on its exterior. Cambria Suites is a brand of Choice Hotels International, which franchises more than 5,300 hotels throughout the United States. The look for the new chain was developed by Minds Eye Architecture of Charlotte, NC, and is being repeated at approximately 50 other locations throughout the country.