Featured Projects

Walk inside the Gateway Center of Mount Helena Community Church in Helena, MT, and you would never imagine the combination community event center and church sanctuary is a converted warehouse. A major challenge was to install heating and cooling systems in a building that had minimal insulation and do so in a way that gave the building a bright, finished look. The project architect found the answer in the HIGH-R Insulation System.

When the time came to address the aging aluminized steel roof on the Mount Pleasant Glass Centre in Mount Pleasant, PA, many options were considered. The one that made the most sense was to cover the old metal roof with a new one from Norcross, GA-based IMETCO.

Mount Union College’s Peterson Field House is now generating its own electricity, thanks to Sheffield Metals International (SMI). The Sheffield, Ohio-based company recently facilitated the installation of a 66,000 square foot photovoltaic roof system that ranks as the largest single-solar-array, thin-film laminate system in the state of Ohio.

The Mountain Aviation Hangar at the Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport in Broomfield, Colorado, features metal building systems by Varco Pruden Buildings, a division of BlueScope Buildings North America, Inc. Using Rigid Frame systems from Varco Pruden, the airplane hangar measures 19,250 sq. ft. The hangar is covered by Varco Pruden’s SSR roofing, a clip-mounted standing seam system. The walls are Varco Pruden’s Panel Rib profile.

To attract and retain high-tech tenants at the Mountain View Corporate Center, the development's new owners updated three concrete buildings to include attractive modern metal facades. The 23,000 sq. ft. of Copper Anodize aluminum wall panels utilized on the project were fabricated at the Fontana, CA plant of Morin Corporation, anodized by Wausau, WI-based Linetec and then shipped directly to the job site for installation by Sheet Metal Systems (SMS) of Hollister, CA.

The new Moving Everest Charter School, located in the Austin neighborhood on the Far West Side of Chicago, utilizes a unique model that accommodates both the new charter school as well as a provider of after-school programs. The new building’s vivid architecture signifies progress and innovation in the underserved neighborhood. More than 16,000 sq. ft. of PAC-CLAD 7/8-in. Corrugated panels by Petersen, finished in Charcoal, dramatically clad the exterior of the 53,000-sq.-ft. structure.

A new station for the Mowbray Volunteer Fire Department in Soddy-Daisy, Tenn., opens up the department to the surrounding community, both visually and literally, thanks to its substantial meeting space. It also features a classic design with metal roof panels and wall highlights from Petersen that will help ease maintenance for decades to come.

Michigan State University (MSU) opens the doors to its new Bio Engineering Facility and to new, collaborative research opportunities contributing toward technology transfer to the private sector and the state’s emerging bio-based economy. The four-story, 130,000-square-foot research laboratory building is located in the South Academic District in East Lansing.

Andrew and Carri Ann Mueller of Palmer, Alaska, live in a pilot’s dream home. In addition to having a spectacular view of nearby Pioneer Peak, the residence has a hangar out behind it, with direct runway access. When it’s time to get the planes out or put them away, the couple can count on their Schweiss Doors bifold liftstrap door to make it easy.

Muirfield Village Golf Club near Columbus, Ohio was designed by Jack Nicklaus and it's home to an annual PGA Tour golf event. To accommodate television crews, officials wanted to enclose space for a studio on an upper clubhouse terrace - which was accomplished with insulated metal panels from Ceco Building Systems.

The leaders of MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital in Puyallup, WA wanted the building’s architecture, operational structure and interior design to reflect their philosophy of putting the patient and family at the center of care. Opened in February 2011, the facility - featuring architectural metal products from CENTRIA - includes a slender nine-story tower that doubles the amount of available space, creating a 357,000 square foot facility situated at the top of a hill with sweeping views of the surrounding mountain ranges.

Deciding it was time to downsize, Bruce Goode, a retired cattle ranch owner and airline pilot, purchased a small, 8-acre equestrian estate in Vernon, British Columbia, Canada. On that property, which has spectacular mountain and lake views of the Okanagan Valley, he built a 3,500-square-foot multi-purpose barn, topped with a crisp, black metal roof that serves as a mounting platform for an impressive looking 28.35 kW PV solar panel array. Securing the panels to the roof is a penetration-free mounting system from S-5!.

After more than five years of planning within an unusual public-private partnership, a spectacular new village administration building has been completed in Mundelein Village, Ill. Featuring metal products from Petersen, the two-story, 32,000 sq. ft. structure, which achieved LEED Gold status, replaces an aging building that served as the town’s headquarters since 1929.

Situated atop a silty bluff where aboriginal hunters once stood to look toward the Alaskan range, the Alaska Museum of the North at the University of Alaska at Fairbanks makes a stunning visual statement. Visible for miles in every direction, the building was designed to convey a sense of Alaska with innovative lines & spaces evoking images of alpine ridges, glaciers breaking up on the Yukon River and the Aurora. It was designed by Hammel, Green & Abrahamson of Minneapolis, MN, in partnership with Anchorage-based GDM, and is skinned entirely in Reynobond® ACM by Alcoa Architectural Products.

The Museum Residences, part of an urban spatial composition anchored by the new Denver Art Museum expansion, are wrapped in transparent and opaque glass and accented with dramatic diagonal RHEINZINK® panels. Designed by Studio Daniel Libeskind, New York, and Davis Partnership Architects, Denver, the $32 million, 126,000 sq. ft. project includes 55 luxury condominiums that offer “gallery-inspired living.”

Founded in 1983, Musician’s Friend has grown rapidly to become the world’s largest direct marketer of music gear. Their vision is to give musicians the best prices and selection available, along with superior service to help musicians achieve their goals in music. A new 64,800 sq. ft. Wildeck® mezzanine now stands in the middle of their 700,000 sq. ft. distribution center in Kansas City, MO to help utilize the vertical space and manage the 36,000 products Musician’s Friend carries.

Size mattered when planning one of Michigan’s newest, most technologically advanced dairy plants. But so did speed of construction, which is why two types of insulated panels from Kingspan Insulated Panels - North America were utilized for the construction of the new 400,000-square-foot MWC dairy processing plant in St. Johns.

For more than 100 years, Denver’s Washington Park has been treasured as an urban oasis for outdoor recreation. Now, the new My Block Washington Park Apartments offer a nearby luxury living option that is also a convenient gateway to the nightlife, entertainment and cultural venues of downtown Denver. Adding to the project's upscale urban vibe is a creative and sophisticated façade anchored by RHEINZINK architectural zinc.

The $129 million Myrtle Beach airport expansion project is a 274,000-square-foot addition that includes a new ticketing lobby, baggage claim, baggage handling, TSA screening and a new five-gate concourse and connector bridge to the existing concourse. CENTRIA architectural metal products played a significant role in the design.

The new Myrtle Beach Middle School in Myrtle Beach, S.C., offers a vision of the future, in both its eye-catching design and award-winning performance. The school, like four other new elementary and middle schools opened in less than two years by the Horry County School District, is engineered to be net-energy positive. A bold color scheme was created with broad expanses of PAC-CLAD Precision Series metal panels from Petersen.