Featured Projects

The new Max Planck Florida Institute For Neuroscience is a postmodern, glass-and-metal laboratory and office building with amenities designed to attract world-class scientists and to support sensitive, advanced diagnostics. To create the aesthetic desired, and to meet the Florida Building Code (FBC) and Miami-Dade County Hurricane Building Code requirements, the project’s architects specified Reynobond® with Kevlar® and traditional Reynobond Aluminum Composite Material (ACM).

Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta, Georgia is the world’s busiest, hosting more than 90 million travelers per year. When it came to designing the new Maynard H. Jackson Jr. International Terminal, planners wanted to give passengers a pleasant respite from the stresses of air travel, while also functioning as a wayfinding system that helped people navigate its 1.2 million sq. ft. of space. Coatings from PPG are displayed prominently in the new terminal.

The new McAllen, Texas, Public Library - which opened on the site of a vacant Walmart - was envisioned by city officials to include environmentally friendly features. From the perspective of Boultinghouse Simpson Gates Architects in McAllen, no design could be more environmentally conscious than adaptively reusing the former “big box” retail store. Alucobond® aluminum composite material by 3A Composites USA played a key role in the design.

Described as “a work of art”, the new McCallum Arts Center building in Austin, TX presents a dramatic environment in which students from across the Austin Independent School District pursue an accelerated, comprehensive arts curriculum offered by the McCallum Fine Arts Academy. Featured prominently on the facility are metal panels by Petersen Aluminum.

McCown Gordon Construction, a general contractor in Kansas City, MO, recently moved out of a 1919 downtown building that it had called home since it renovated the space in 2005. The company’s new headquarters is a renovated Catholic Charities structure that had been vacant. The design transformed the building into an open and modern headquarters with a façade to match, enhanced by Anodized Aluminum Dri-Design wall panels.

The harsh landscape of Canada’s Northwest Territories is incorporated to great effect in the striking McDonald Drive Condominium project in Yellowknife. The building’s curved, stacked form and perching foundations align directly with its site, an historic, massive outcropping of bedrock overlooking the town and nearby lake. Highlighting the design for the eight-structure is an unusual installation application of RHEINZINK. Approximately 13,000 sq. ft. of 0.8mm/22 gauge RHEINZINK Pre-weathered Blue-Gray material was used to clad the building.

Set on a 90-acre woodland overlooking the Tennessee River, McDonough House is the first new structure in more than 30 years built at Loghaven Artist Residency in Knoxville, Tennessee. Reflecting the evolving landscape and the original cabins' historical style, the McDonough House features RHEINZINK-prePATINA® graphite-grey zinc material. The material is a product of RHEINZINK America Inc., Woburn, MA.

When Bossier, LA-based McElroy Metal added 1,960 solar panels to the standing seam roof of its Peachtree City, GA manufacturing facility, it used penetration-free S-5! clamps to attach them. When the company decided to add a similar—but slightly smaller—solar array to the roof of its plant in Adelanto, CA, it again turned to S-5!

S-5!, one of the metal construction industry's leading authorities on metal roof attachment solutions, recently participated in a complex solar conversion project at a manufacturing facility in Clinton, Illinois for McElroy Metal, another of the industry's most recognized names.

It’s one thing to talk about the benefits of your metal roofing products and how those products can serve as a host for photovoltaic panels. It’s quite another thing to re-roof your manufacturing facility with your panels and add photovoltaic panels. But that's precisely what McElroy Metal did at its Peachtree City plant.

Because you can never save too much, McElroy Metal has added solar panels to a second manufacturing facility–this one in Adelanto, CA–that will more than offset the plant’s electrical usage and show a return on investment in approximately three years.

It’s a rare occasion when the roofing installer knows and understands everything about what the customer wants. The best chance of that happening is when the installer and the customer are the same person. Looking for the dream roof he always wanted, Contractor Ronnie McGlothlin chose the 138T standing seam system from McElroy Metal.

The addition at McHenry West High School in McHenry, Ill., became necessary with the consolidation of 10th through 12th graders at the west campus. The new area would focus on “science, technology and industry offering college and career-oriented pathways.” CENTRIA’s Formawall Dimension Series building envelope system, in five colors, helped create a unique aesthetic for the addition.

The J. Paul and Eleanor McIntosh College of Nursing offers a unique educational environment, created through a partnership between Northeast Community College in Norfolk, NE and the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Nursing. The 44,000 sq. ft. facility, which houses Northeast Community College’s nurse and nurse aid programs plus the University of Nebraska College of Nursing’s undergraduate and graduate-level programs, has a masonry exterior trimmed with aluminum rainscreen wall panels by Dri-Design.

Most architects have visions of someday designing their dream home. For Jason F. McLennan, architect and CEO of McLennan Design, that dream has come true. Showcasing both his design talents and his commitment to sustainability, the Washington-based architect topped his recently completed, one-of-a-kind house with a Metal Sales metal roof that features Valspar's most sophisticated, most environmentally friendly paint finish.

Dr. Robert McLeod of Creston, British Columbia, should be proud of his new 44' x 30' hangar. It features a beautifully designed exterior, highlighted by Douglas Fir log posts and beams, and features a trio of 3' x 6' Douglas Fir-trimmed windows. Best of all, the hangar has a premium hangar door. The 42'-6" x 12'-6" bifold liftstrap door was manufactured by industry leader Schweiss Doors. It’s equipped with an automatic latching system and remote opener.

DMR Architects of Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey designed the new train station at the Meadowlands Sports Complex in East Rutherford, New Jersey to bring rail service to the Meadowlands Sports Complex, a world-class facility comprised of the Meadowlands Racetrack, Giants Stadium and the Izod Center, all of which used to be serviced only by bus and vehicular traffic. Integral to the new station's design is Englert job-site rollformed metal roofing.

Canada's industrial sector remains strong, especially in Ontario where new facilities continue to be developed. Among the latest completed are a pair of buildings for Meadowvale Exchange, a high-profile industrial site located in the heart of Meadowvale, a large suburban district in the northwestern part of Mississauga, Ontario. The two structures feature insulated metal wall panels from Kingspan Insulated Panels.

Knowing how to tackle big projects is the mark of a capable fabricator. And as its work on the 175,000 sq. ft. Measurement Systems Laboratory at the NASA Langley Research Center demonstrates, Manchester, MI-based CEI Materials is indeed capable. The company fabricated and installed more than 90,000 sq. ft. of ALPOLIC/fr aluminum composite material for the recently completed project, while handling the fabrication and installation of two other wall systems as well.

Approximately 7,600 sq. ft. of Metl-Span CF-30 and CF-36 Architectural Flat wall panels were used to highlight the new MEEMIC Insurance Company headquarters in Auburn Hills, MI. The insulated metal wall panels, provided in a custom Champagne color, were part of the diverse palette of building materials incorporated into Neumann/Smith Architecture's design.