Featured Projects

Blue Cross and Blue Shield’s Florida Blue Centers are designed to encourage personal interaction between customers and their health care provider. The Centers offer benefits consultations, financial planning assistance, and tools to learn more about individual healthcare options. The Cambridge Architectural mesh systems featured in the facilities serve appropriately as structural shields for protecting the Centers’ functions.

Those who believe there are limits to the imagination—especially when it comes to housing both airplanes and people in the same structure—should meet Daniel Shaw. A resident of Geneva, Florida, the 62-year-old plumbing contractor has taken the “hangar home” concept to a whole new level. Shaw’s metal-clad hangar home is 50’ wide x 60’ deep x 30’ tall. Its most noticeable feature initially is the porch that wraps the front and two sides of the building. A closer look, however, reveals that a large section of the porch is actually built into the façade of the home’s 45’-wide x 15’-high Schweiss Doors hydraulic hangar door.

With the moniker “Horse Capital of the World” it’s no wonder that Ocala, Florida is continuously on the forefront of the equine industry. In the fall of 2014 the Florida Horse Park, located at 11008 S. Hwy 475 in Ocala, opened what is purported to be the largest public equestrian arena in the Southeastern United States. The 212’ x 396’ x 20’ arena was constructed using a metal building system engineered and fabricated by Allied Steel Buildings of Ft. Lauderdale, FL.

Hockey and ice-skating enthusiasts in Florida can skate in style when the right building materials are selected. Insulated metal panels from Kingspan added aesthetic appeal and insulation value for a stable interior temperature at the five-rink Florida Hospital Center Ice in Wesley Chapel, FL.

As a part of its commitment to research, Florida International University invested in several Academic Health Centers - facilities dedicated to student academics and research. Academic Health Center 4 was a $43 million project, featuring metal products from CENTRIA, located on the Modesta A. Maidique Campus. It features an auditorium, rooms designed for small group instruction, classrooms, research labs and offices.

Pretty much everything is a standout feature in this new-construction home sited in a gated community on Destin, Fla.’s Choctawhatchee Bay. Intended to resemble an upscale, contemporary resort hotel, it features Snap-Clad standing seam metal roofing from Petersen.

Designers of the new College of Medicine building at Florida State University in Tallahassee used a giant Petersen mansard roof to provide both form and function for the facility. Surrounding campus buildings were characterized by steeply pitched clay tiles roofs or flat roofs with highly ornamented parapets.

Meeting the need for large buildings with column-free interior spaces is no problem for Rigid Global Buildings, as evidenced by the successful use of a Rigid steel building system for the construction of the 65,000 sq. ft. Foothills Sports Arena in Littleton, CO. Saunders Construction of Centennial, CO, built the 200' x 320' building for the Foothills Park & Recreation District.

Decorative facades with swooping curves, created by Cambridge Architectural using powder-coated mesh, are featured on new employee parking decks at the Ford Engineering & Research Center campus in Dearborn, MI. The two structures, Parking Decks 300 and 400, were completed in 2019 and accommodate 3,900 vehicles. They incorporate nearly 100,000 square feet of metal mesh.

Located in the Southeast Quadrant of Old Town Alexandria, VA, Ford's Landing features 136 luxury townhomes on the banks of the Potomac River. Once home to an old Ford plant, the developer, EYA of Bethesda, Maryland, transformed this abandoned property into one of the most highly regarded communities in the greater Washington, D.C. area. The development's units are topped with six different colors of Englert Series 1300 standing seam roofing, manufactured at the job site by Nash Roofing of Fredericksburg, MD.

The checklist for what makes a project successful will almost always include staying at or under budget. The new packaging facility and adjacent office project for Forest Pharmaceuticals in Cincinnati was able to stay on budget with some help from Citadel Architectural Products.

Metal Sales Manufacturing Corporation, a premier nationwide provider of metal panels for the building and construction industry, created a dramatic metallic façade for the new Formosa 1140 multi-residential unit in the heart of West Hollywood, CA. 12,900 square feet of Metal Sales’ perforated T16-E panels outfit the facility, creating a bright, unique and multi-layered checkerboard of sustainable materials.

The opening of the massive new $1.03 billion Fort Belvoir Community Hospital at Fort Belvoir, VA marks the culmination of five years of interservice collaboration to complete one of the military’s largest and most involved medical Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) projects. In addition to glass curtainwall and terra cotta panels, the 1.27 million square foot facility utilizes on its exterior 120,000 sq. ft. of Dri-Design rainscreen metal wall panels, fabricated from 1mm-thick VM Quartz Zinc.

Cool roofing metals are sustainable and energy efficient. But equally as important, these new-generation coated metals offer tremendous freedom of choice when it comes to color. At Sheffield Metals International, the company’s COOLR® metals are available in a wide range of 70% Kynar 500® or Hylar 5000®-based colors, including Colonial Red. Roofing metal with a Colonial Red paint finish was recently used by Cumberland Fabrication of Fayetteville, NC, to produce 4,000 sq. ft. of standing seam roofing for a branch location of the Fort Bragg Federal Credit Union in North Carolina. Cumberland was also the roof system installer.

One of the largest and most extensive solar air heating projects in the world has now been completed for the United States Military base at Fort Drum, in upstate New York. The project is extremely significant in terms of the sheer magnitude of energy and CO2 savings, and it shows the tremendous potential for solar thermal when it is deployed on a large scale. The transpired solar collecting metal wall panels at the heart of the project are Solarwall®, by Conserval Engineering of Toronto. The panels were installed right over the top of the existing claddings on 27 buildings and have already yielded tremendous energy savings.

The unique and attractive Fort Hill Brewery totals over 9,400 sq. ft. and is comprised of six buildings. Featuring metal products from Star Building Systems, the project, which is located in Easthampton, MA, utilized Star’s DoubleLok roof panels in Medium Bronze and Colonial Red PBR panels on the walls which are complemented by a brick façade which was installed at the front entrance. The metal building provided the required clearance for brewery operations and the barn-like look the owner wanted.

The new Chapel Complex & Religious Education Facility at Fort Hood, Texas provides non-denominational space for religious and community activities. The 42,000 sq. ft. facility, featuring Petersen metal roofing, has received LEED Gold certification.

To integrate, coordinate, and synchronize human resource functions, the Fort Knox Human Resource Center of Excellence complex will employ nearly 4,300 soldiers and civilians. The 883,180 square-foot complex, spanning over 104 acres and costing approximately $192 million, is the largest single building project in Fort Knox’s history and includes six interconnected buildings. A featured material on the new development is aluminum composite material from Laminators Inc. of Hatfield, PA.

The first of a new generation of Child Development Centers (CDCs) has entered service at Fort Riley, KS where more than $1-billion dollars worth of construction is planned or underway in step with the U.S. Army’s 1st Infantry Division returning from a ten-year station in Germany. The daycare/preschool facilities, based on a standard design, are representative of a broader initiative of design standards developed for various Army facilities. The identical 16,000-sq.-ft. childcare centers at Fort Riley were produced by a $11.25-million Multiple Award Task Order Contract (MATOC). Metal building systems supplied to the Fort Riley projects by Butler Manufacturing Company.

In April 2012, Igloo Erectors finished their work as fabricators and installers of the ALPOLIC aluminum composite material (ACM) panel system on the new Fort Saskatchewan Community Hospital in Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta, Canada. The new state-of-the-art facility replaces a 47-year-old structure approximately one-third the size. The ACM to which the new health care facility owes its good looks was manufactured by Mitsubishi Plastics Composites America of Chesapeake, VA, and supplied by VICWEST.