Featured Projects

Located in Vancouver, WA, the new headquarters of Hopper Dennis and Jellison PLLC is a seamless blend of form and function. Built atop a first floor parking garage, the 17,500 sq. ft., three-story structure is light and airy, and creates a cohesive image that improves work flow for its engineering firm owner. Covering much of its exterior are ALPOLIC® aluminum composite material panels.

Readily recyclable and manufactured from recycled materials, Cambridge Architectural stainless steel mesh systems provide a large-scale streamlined look that makes an elegant statement inside the Horowitz Visual and Performing Arts Center at Howard Community College in Columbia, MD.

While trends create buzz, historical designs leave a lasting impression. Hotel Eleo at the University of Florida in Gainesville is attracting attention with its design references to a master plan that French architect Le Corbusier created for Algiers in the 1930s, but in a material language that includes weathering steel metal wall panels from Dri-Design. The building blends with the surrounding historic architecture of the campus, while also standing out.

As the name implies, Hotel EMC2—as in Albert Einstein’s mass-energy equivalence or E = mc2—is a science-themed hotel. Located in the Streeterville neighborhood of Chicago, the hotel was designed to be a one-of-a-kind space inspired by science, art and cuisine. The exterior of the 21-story hotel has a sleek aesthetic, utilizing Dri-Design Metal Wall Panels to achieve its modern look.

Transforming a 140-year-old carriage house for the next century, Steven Fong Architect reinvented the Woodlawn residence of southern Ontario with contemporary style and resilient materials using RHEINZINK-GRANUM architectural grade zinc from RHEINZINK America Inc. Now called the "House of Four Gables," the 1,205-square-foot, two-story home maximizes the floorspace inside within the lot's tight borders.

Those who feel called into the culinary world have many educational options, including Houston Community College’s Culinary Arts Program. Established in 1982, the program has consistently grown every year, requiring a new state-of-the-art space. Aesthetics and durability in a rainscreen system influenced the design team of Stanec, Houston, to select Dri-Design’s Shadow Series panels for the HCC Culinary Arts building.

When you visit a grocery store, you expect to find extremely fresh food and quality products. When a major Texas grocery distribution center expansion was planned to accommodate growing business, Green Span Profiles was chosen to supply the insulated metal panels for the new facility located in Houston.

Standing in the midst of a hyper-industrial site adjacent to the Houston Ship Channel, the new Intermarine Shipyard Operations and Office Building indexes the international shipping industry it serves. The new five-story, channel-side building makes extensive use of Reynobond aluminum composite material, finished with Alcoa Architectural Products' super-durable Design LIne™ paint finish.

The flat roof over Howard Elementary in rural Howard, South Dakota, had been patched and replaced several times since the building’s original construction in the 1950s – each time with another flat roof. That all changed with the installation of a standing seam metal roof system from The Garland Company Inc.

The new Howard Industries headquarters in Jones County, MS, has been hailed as a unique landmark and establishes the design tone for future occupants of a high-tech business park near an emerging technology corridor. The building was designed by Foil Wyatt Architects & Planners of Jackson, MS, and features on its exterior approximately 15,500 sq. ft. of Reynobond ACM. Manufactured by Alcoa Architectural Products, the material was fabricated into panels by Yancey & Jamieson of Austell, GA, for installation by Quantum Construction of Coraopolis, PA.

Seeking a permanent solution to problems that had plagued a classroom building roof for nearly two decades, parishoners at the Howard Memorial Presbyterian Church in Tarboro, NC, decided to change the structure’s roof profile from flat to sloped, and to top the building with a roof material they’d come to trust—metal! To help accomplish those goals they turned to an experienced team--DKWA Architects, McClure Estimating and Construction--and a proven product--MBCI's NuRoof Retrofit Roof System.

In January 2013, the Seminole Tribe of Florida and Stiles Construction announced a joint venture partnership to create Seminole/Stiles, LLC. Among the projects completed by the company so far is the Howard Tiger Recreational Center in Hollywood, FL. One of its features is a airnasium, created utilizing a metal building framing system from Allied Steel Buildings of Ft. Lauderdale, FL.

The Honolulu Program of Waste Energy Recovery, or H-POWER, in Kapolei, West Oahu, HI, generates up to 90 megawatts of energy for customers of Hawaiian Electric Company. And now thanks to an ambitious undertaking, rooftop solar creates a significant portion of the electricity needed to operate the facility. S-5! products were integral to the rooftop solar project's success.

With an entire section of its corporate website devoted to green concepts, Hubbell Lighting Inc. has demonstrated its ability to talk the talk as far as sustainability is concerned. What visitors to the site might not realize is that company officials also know how to walk the walk. And with the construction of their new corporate headquarters back in 2007, they proved it! Featured on the exterior of the four-story LEED Silver-certified project is an aluminum composite panel system by Altech Panel Systems, FEATURING ALPOLIC ACM from Mitsubishi Plastics Composites America Inc.

New York City's next generation of architectural heritage has emerged at Hudson Yards, the largest private real estate development in U.S. history, and PPG metal coatings are again playing an integral role. Six towers measuring more than 50 stories in height have been designed by some of the world's best-known architectural firms, and at least three of those firms have specified PPG coatings for exterior or interior components of their projects.

Located in Little Rock, AR, the 8,000 sq. ft. Hugg & Hall Mobile Storage office and shop facility is a showcase of metal construction products, featuring exposed metal building framing, metal roofing and metal wall panels by Varco Pruden Buildings. Steel shipping containers – products marketed by Hugg & Hall - were also key elements used in the construction of the structures.

When you farm big with big equipment, you need big machine sheds with big doors. Schweiss Doors filled that bill through the years by manufacturing three large bifold liftstrap doors for Huisman Farms of Atwater, MN.

St. Lucie County, Florida was in dire need for a shelter to accommodate the area’s increasing stray animal population, so they turned to Richard K. Davis Construction Corporation and the cost efficiency of pre-engineered metal. The resulting 13,000-square foot shelter showcases a Ceco Building Systems rigid frame metal framing system as well as metal wall and roof panels.

Metal Sales Manufacturing Corporation, a premier nationwide provider of metal panels for the building and construction industry, brought colorful durability to the new Humane Society Silicon Valley (HSSV) Animal Community Center in Milpitas, California by providing nearly 1,000 square feet of metal panels.

Finding a single product that meets both aesthetic objectives and energy efficiency requirements can be challenging for some, but it was no trouble for the folks at Nola Van Peursem Architects. They specified insulated metal panels from Metl-Span for their plans involving the renovation and expansion of the Huntsville Aquatics Center in Huntsville, AL.