Featured Projects

A sleek LandscapeInteriors™ metal fabric application from Cambridge Architectural elegantly dresses a gallery ceiling and building elevators inside the high-tech Newseum in Washington, D.C. The news-centered museum is located between the White House and the U.S. Capitol on the National Mall, and boasts world-class architecture from Polshek Partnership Architects. It houses seven levels of unparalleled artifacts, media and interactive experiences that tell the five-centuries-old story of news, highlighting both contemporary and historic issues.

With “First to the Future” as the theme, the 2009 NextGen home features the newest product offering from DECRA Roofing Systems - Villa Tile in Amalfi Sand. The focus is on strong, green and energy efficient design. An alternative to traditional clay or concrete tile, Villa Tile is made of corrosion resistant, aluminum-zinc alloy coated steel with an acrylic bonded stone chip finish that creates an attractive exterior. A unique product, DECRA Villa Tile offers the classic beauty and architectural detail of an old world Italian tile combined with the superior performance and inherent benefits of steel.

When passersby stroll through Chicago’s Near North neighborhood, they might take pause at Niche 905, an 18-story residential tower. Chicago is not in short supply of high rises, but this one is grabbing attention for its functional garage ventilation screen that also acts as art. Dri-Design’s Tapered Series Panels were perforated and installed to add sculptural art to the building with dimension and playful shadows.

The Niles North Aquatics Center, home to a year-round competitive swim program hosted by the local school district, Illinois Swimming and USA Swimming, features a new two-story addition and competition pool, in Skokie, Illinois. KJWW Engineering Consultants worked with Vulcraft Group, supplier of steel joists, steel joist girders and steel decking, to complete the project.

The new Nils K. Nelson Bioscience Innovation Building at Purdue University Northwest was designed not only to serve as a state-of-the-art teaching facility – housing the university’s college of nursing and department of biological sciences – but as a new “front door” to the 167-acre campus in Hammond, Ind. Aluminum composite material cladding from 3A Composites USA is featured on the exterior.

In the annals of Irish history, the tale of the Nine Fine Irishmen is the stuff of legend. It's fitting then that a Las Vegas pub bearing the same name should be something special too. The bar enjoys a destination reputation for its authentic food, spirits and entertainment, as well as for its incredible décor. Not to be overlooked is the establishment's ornately designed patio bar. It functions with the help of attractively styled hydraulic doors from Schweiss Doors of Fairfax, MN.

Ordell Construction, a general contractor and Varco Pruden Builder™, led the design and expansion of a six-year-old brew house in Oregon. Owned by Ninkasi Brewing Company, a microbrewery based in Eugene, the expanded facility was slated to triple the company's output capacity.

Effective insulation is paramount when it comes to the storage of dairy products, as maintaining precise temperature and humidity levels is essential. It’s for these reasons that insulated metal panels (IMPs), with their advanced insulation properties and effectiveness as a highly efficient thermal barrier, are popular choices for food storage buildings, and why IMPs from Norbec were utilized for the new Ninth Avenue Foods facility in Columbus, IN.

Confined to designing a 2,500 square foot residence on a narrow 20-foot by 60-foot lot in a dense urban neighborhood, David W. Nitchkey, principal at CORE Architects of Pittsburgh, designed his own unique three-story home with the use of exposed fastener panels from McElroy Metal.

In 2008, an international pharmaceutical company began looking for a location to expand its North American headquarters. The client initially rejected a 770,000 sq. ft. building in Plainsboro, NJ due to its appearance. But that was before a $220 million renovation transformed it. Playing a huge role in the structure's new look and new lease on life were metal claddings and entry systems from Alcoa Architectural Products and Kawneer, respectively.

For over forty-five years Nobility Homes Inc. of Ocala, Florida has been building quality manufactured homes for the Florida market and beyond. With over 50,000 homes built to date, this company stands high in the rankings of their industry. Since 2012, Roof Hugger Inc. has been supplying Genesis Construction & Management of Ocala with engineered structural sub-purlins for re-roofing projects at Nobility Homes’ manufacturing locations.

Located at North American Stainless, a large steel mill in Ghent, Kentucky, this is not your average in-plant office on a mezzanine. Around-the-clock inspectors at the mill needed a safe and comfortable environment to check steel sheeting for imperfections, with minimal disruption to the line. Panel Built designed a unique solution that maintained production flow while allowing every inch of the steel to be examined.

It’s always good practice to measure twice and cut once. Sometimes, it pays to measure more than twice. After tearing off aged and damaged asphalt shingles, Ideal Building Solutions of Norcross, GA, installed 15,631 square feet of standing seam metal panels on a multi-hipped roof at the North Atlanta Church of Christ on a strict deadline. In just two days, the panels were manufactured onsite by a roll former from McElroy Metal.

Metal roofing's unique ability to blend with almost any architectural style makes it a fitting choice for almost every type of project. But it was Englert Inc.'s ability to provide roofing metal in the unusual color desired that cinched its use on the North Beach Towers development in Myrtle Beach, SC.

The $44.6 million North Carolina National Guard Joint Force Headquarters in Raleigh, NC was designed to provide a reserve center for the North Carolina National Guard personnel throughout peacetime missions. It is also home to the State of North Carolina Emergency Operations Center, the Statewide Transportation Center and the Highway Patrol’s Regional Communications Center. Metal products from CENTRIA are featured prominently in the design.

A perfect match of the school colors was a must, and it was its ability to offer such precision that led an Oklahoma-based composite metal panel contractor to suggest Laminators Inc. for Oklahoma State University's new North Hall Academic Facility.

The new North Star Academy, a Duluth (MN) Edison Charter School, uses the latest in construction products and techniques to create a stimulating educational environment based on friendliness, openness and comfort. The 90,000 sq. ft. facility, which serves up to 900 K-8 students, is clad with two styles and five colors of insulated metal wall panels from Lewisville, TX-based Metl-Span.

A North Texas homeowner was looking to replace her home’s concrete tile roof, damaged by hail, and searched high and low for a more durable and attractive choice. While browsing online she happened to find the Milan metal roofing profile from McElroy Metal. That’s what she wanted.

With decorative appeal in mind, The Preston Partnership of Falls Church, VA, designed the buildings of the new North Tract Loft Apartment community with a variety of exterior cladding materials, including 85,000 square feet of Bright Silver Omega-Lite aluminum composite panels, manufactured by Laminators Incorporated. Omega-Lite panels contain a total of 70% recycled content which can contribute to achieving LEED points.

North Windy Ridge School, located in Weaverville, North Carolina, recently completed a “metal-over-metal” retrofit re-roofing. The suburban school serves approximately 600 fifth and sixth grade students and is part of the North Buncombe District of Buncombe County Schools. Unique to the design of this re-roofing application were custom-made Roof Hugger sub-purlins that provided convective ventilation through the air-space between the existing and new roofs. The new metal roof is MBCI's SuperLok profile.