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Seeking a replacement system for the home's aging roof, the owner of a 1926 lakeside cottage in Erie, PA turned to VMZINC, the international brand name of rolled zinc products from Umicore Building Products USA of Raleigh, NC.

Erik’s Bike Shop grew from a workshop in his parents’ backyard to an 18-store business employing more than 300 people. Thanks to The Renschler Group, an American Buildings Company (ABC) authorized Builder, Erik’s Bike Shop continues to grow successfully throughout the Midwest with a new store in Madison, Wisconsin.

Although it was designed to complement the architectural language of recent hospital expansions, the Presbyterian Intercommunity Hospital’s new Ernest D. Wells Medical Office Building is by no means a copycat structure. Located on the hospital’s campus in Whittier, CA, the new medical office building stands five stories tall. The first floor is clad with granite while the remainder of the building is wrapped with Reynobond aluminum composite wall panels.

The new Escambia County Central Office Complex in Pensacola, FL became the first government project in Escambia County to qualify for LEED status when it was completed in the summer of 2010. The 79,000 sq. ft. facility houses departments that previously were located in three separate buildings. Approximately 30,000 sq. ft. of Petersen's 24 gauge unpainted Galvalume Plus Snap-Clad Panels and Flush Panels were utilized on the structure.

Choosing a color for your new home can be a difficult decision. Selecting one single pigment to represent you and your home takes time and consideration and when the Esers were faced with this decision in early 2015, they turned to Valspar for help.

With an angular futuristic design and dynamic color-shifting aluminum composite material cladding from 3A Composites USA that melds red with orange and yellow, the new Esperanza Brighton Park health center serves as a glowing beacon, welcoming residents seeking healthcare and wellness services in this previously underserved southwest Chicago neighborhood.

The $30 million renovation of the Essex County West Caldwell School of Technology in West Caldwell, NJ, included building a two-story addition to the front of the school, retrofitting existing space to accommodate current and new curriculum, and creating an outdoor courtyard. In addition to updates for classrooms, laboratories and the cafeteria, the exterior received a facelift, which included metal panels from CENTRIA.

Due to an increase in demand for jobs in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) fields, the Corona Norco Unified School District in California decided it was time to start producing more STEM graduates from its district. With the new 107,000 sq. ft. eSTEM Academy in Eastvale, it will. An integral part of the sleek, high-tech building's design was the incorporation of 35,000 sq. ft. of Omega-Lite®ACM panels from Laminators Inc.

Totaling 3,188 square feet, the ETW Caretaker Residence in Waukesha, WI, utilized Star Building Systems’ StarShield Roof System in an aluminum-zinc finish along with Star’s StarMark for the Wall System in Almond color, in addition to split face CMU. Also incorporated into the structure are the SSB and SWE structural systems. This caretaker residence utilized a metal building to blend in with the existing Star Building which houses a manufacturing business.

Local building covenants limiting the use of some metal construction materials were influential in the design of Eustis Body Shop in Lincoln, NE. The office/body shop facility was built by Schwisow Construction Inc. of Lincoln, using Rigid Frame and Continuous Beam framing from Varco Pruden Building Systems.

A new apartment building in Evanston, IL - Evanston Gateway - brings together boutique living and accessibility. The residences feature modern, premium finishes, while the building itself features a rooftop deck offering endless views of Lake Michigan's shoreline and Chicago's iconic skyline. Helping give the apartment building its clean, modern aesthetic are aluminum composite wall panels from Laminators Incorporated.

According to Mike Shoulders, CEO of VPS Architecture, Evansville, IN, one of the firm's goals for the design of the new Evansville North High School was to inspire students to learn. One of the products the firm called upon to help it achieve that design objective was aluminum composite material from Citadel Architectural Products.

Local needs are a top priority when planning for the construction of a new YMCA. The Exeter Area YMCA in Exeter, NH was no exception. The 33,000 square foot facility was designed to include fitness studios, weight and cardio rooms, a gymnasium, indoor track and a community room. The building is both attractive and energy efficient, thanks to the use of insulated metal wall panels from Metl-Span for its construction.

Exo Apartments is a 457-unit, multi-family residential community in Reston, Virginia that opened in July 2018. Consisting of two identical 16-floor towers connected with a single-story reception-area link building, the 530,000 square foot complex is clad in aluminum composite material by 3A Composites USA with a color-shifting finish.

With its shimmering, iridescent exterior, the new Exploration Tower at Port Canaveral beckons visitors with its unique appearance as its color changes in different light and when viewed from different angles. Opened in November 2013, the Port’s iconic welcome center showcases the first use of Valspar’s new Kameleon™ Color mica coating as spray-applied to Firestone Metal Products’ UNA-CLAD™ metal wall panels by Linetec, one of the nation’s largest finishers of architectural aluminum.

DECRA Roofing Systems was selected by Wall Homes to participate in a March 2009 edition of ABC’s Extreme Makeover: Home Edition Project. The popular television show, which airs Sundays at 8/7c on ABC, focused on “Heroes” during the 2008-09 season. The Augustin home rebuild project in Keller, TX, was on the fast-track with a 7 day completion from start to finish. The builder, Wall Homes, contacted DECRA about participating in the project with its stone coated steel roofing. Wall Homes was looking for a barrel tile profile to fit the style of the home with a couple of requirements - it had to install easily and quickly.

Metal Sales Manufacturing Corporation took the national stage on ABC TV's Extreme Makeover: Home Edition on December 12, 2010, as the company donated its Stile metal roofing panels to the Gaston family residence in Pensacola, FL. Contrasting the stonework of the home and surrounded by Christmas lights, the roof tops off the house perfectly, exuding a warm and welcoming presence.

Metal Sales Manufacturing Corporation made its third national appearance on ABC TV’s “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” on Sunday, January 9, 2011, and right in its own backyard. Metal Sales contributed its Vertical Seam roofing panels and trim to the garage/wrestling center of the Lampe family's new home in Louisville, KY, the city where Metal Sales is headquartered.

An eye doctor practicing in both the United States and Holland decided to build a new medical office complex in Dothan, AL. Preferring the style of the buildings in Holland to those in the U.S., the doctor commissioned a Dutch firm to design the new building. Saliba Construction of Dothan was tapped to handle the project’s general contracting duties and helped coordinate the replication of features that both the owner and architect wanted. To help with those elements the G.C. enlisted the services of Marty Robbins Roofing Co. Inc., also of Dothan, and Sheffield Metals International of Sheffield Village, OH.

Facebook’s new data center in Prineville, Oregon features more than 65,000 square feet of metal wall panels from Metal Sales Manufacturing Corporation, a premier nationwide provider of metal panels for the building and construction industry.