Featured Projects

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.

When the U.S. Air Force retrofitted a 7,800 square-foot building at Hurlburt Field AFB in Florida to meet a Category V hurricane with wind speeds of 157 mph, it proved to be a sound investment. Roof Hugger's sub-framing products played a prominent role in the metal-over-metal retrofit roof process.

Six Flags Over Georgia’s new Hurricane Harbor water park near Atlanta includes 22 buildings of varying use and purpose, and all of them sport PAC-CLAD aluminum standing seam roof panels by Petersen. Multiple roof colors are featured throughout the park, making for a bright and stimulating environment.

Formability ranks high on any list of the key attributes of aluminum composite material (ACM). The ability of the material to be effectively used on both sweeping curves and tight bends is a testament to that quality, and was a contributing factor in the material’s selection for the exterior of the drive-thru canopy at the new IBC Bank headquarters building in Oklahoma City, OK. The bank was designed by WKMC Architects Inc. and features on its drive-thru canopy a Series NM-500 aluminum composite panel system by SAF Metal Fabrication of Villa Rica, GA.

Members of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 134 in Chicago celebrated the grand opening of their new headquarters and union hall in May 2018 – a renovation project that is part of the surrounding Bronzeville neighborhood revitalization. The facility features aluminum composite material cladding from 3A Composites USA.

The IBI Group fell in love with the detail and quality of wire mesh while working on a project for one of its clients. As a result of that experience, the company chose to utilize Banker Wire woven mesh in the renovation of its new office space in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

The IBM Bromont plant in Bromont, QC, Canada, opened in 1972. Over 50 years later, the facility continues to be a leader in innovation, technology and continuous improvement. In 2015, IBM Bromont installed 3,000 sq. ft. of InSpire solar air heating metal wall panels - manufactured by ATAS International Inc. - and a new 2,000 sq. ft. InSpire® wall was installed in October 2023.

The new IBM offices at Dulles Station West in Herndon, VA, truly reflect today’s mobile work force. The design team implemented IBM’s new e-workplace guidelines, an initiative intended to create a workplace environment more closely aligned with the mobile patterns of IBM employees. Petersen’s PAC-1000F Flush Series column covers contributed to the design success of the Mobility Area where IBM employees can access power and data receptacles set in the columns at floating elliptical work tables.