Featured Projects

Northwestern Mutual, a financial services company based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, has expanded into a new, modern office space – in a building that is nearly a century old. The company completely renovated the interior of Milwaukee’s Van Buren building, built in 1926, and Banker Wire woven wire mesh now clads its central elevator banks.

Norton Brownsboro Hospital is the first new full-service hospital to open in the Louisville, KY area in more than 20 years. The five-story, 298,000 square foot facility features the latest in healthcare technology and an innovative patient and family-centered care model. Featured on the building's exterior are insulated metal wall panels from Metl-Span.

Poly Prep Country Day School in Brooklyn, N.Y., is a historic co-ed college preparatory school, educating students from Nursery through 12th grade. Products from Metl-Span were specified for the Novogratz Center for Athletics, the school’s fieldhouse/gymnasium.

Now House is a Near-Zero-Energy concept home located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. What makes the project rather unique is that its designer, David Fujiwara, was able to successfully apply the concepts of near-zero-energy-use construction to an existing home—one more than 50 years old—rather than new construction. It speaks volumes that alongside technologies like solar photovoltaics, solar thermal heating, low-flow water fixtures, low-e windows and high-efficiency insulation, the project includes VicElite from VICWEST.

Nu Skin Enterprises Inc. is a leader in anti-aging and skin care products and research. As part of their commitment to research and innovation, the company invested $100 million in an Innovation Center in Provo, UT. The center – which used metal products from CENTRIA - reflects the modern sensibilities of the global company and houses research laboratories, conference spaces and more.

Blending elements of pre-engineered metal building and conventional construction, design firm Aecom was able to devise an expansion plan for Nurse Chevrolet Cadillac that enabled the dealership to triple in size without shutting its doors in the process. The design firm’s choice for the metal building portion of the project was Robertson Building Systems and its local authorized builder, Winvalley Contracting.

JHC Commercial, LLC of Portland, Oregon was awarded the American Buildings 2024 Building of the Year Excellence in Design Award for the NW Line JATC project. This state-of-the-art facility in Battle Ground, WA, serves as headquarters of the Northwest Line Joint Apprenticeship Training Committee and a training center for aspiring linemen—skilled professionals who specialize in high-voltage power lines.

The 58,000 square foot, $23.5 million Niagara Warehouse and Office Complex in Lewiston, New York was designed to store materials, supplies and equipment in support of the project’s 2,441-megawatt hydroelectric operation. A total of 18,000 square feet of the three-story building were built to function as administrative office space. The project features a variety of roof and wall products from CENTRIA.

Staten Island is the fastest growing borough in New York City and the newly completed Precinct 121 serves as the face of the New York Police Department there. The precinct building was designed by acclaimed architect Rafael Vinoly Architects of New York City and makes extensive use of Contrarian Metal Resources' InvariMatte® Stainless Steel on its two-story exterior.

When the metal standing seam roof over one of the skilled nursing facilities at the at Oak Crest Retirement Village in Parkville, Maryland separated, allowing water to penetrate the building, administrators choose to embrace the recently established “green” culture of the retirement community. The failing roof was retrofitted with a standing seam system by The Garland Company, Inc., avoiding a tear off and subsequently reducing landfill waste.

Meeting the requirements for durability and aesthetics, a standing seam metal roof from Drexel Metals tops the new Oak Farm Vineyards wine and hospitality facility in Lodi, Calif. Built by Nickell Construction of Galt, Calif., the new facility includes a 360-degree tasting bar, floor-to-ceiling vineyard views, a private room for wine club members, two indoor and two outdoor fireplaces and a covered terrace.

Dow Building Solutions, a business unit of The Dow Chemical Company, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have taken the first step toward tackling a major environmental concern – the amount of energy consumed by the 4.8 million commercial buildings in the United States. Dow, ORNL and design-build firm Paramount Metal Systems have turned a 50-year-old ORNL building into a state-of-the art, energy-efficient research facility. The completed facility also features metal roofing and siding from Custom-Bilt Metals, along with retrofit framing from Roof Hugger.

A major addition on the Southfield Campus of Oakland Community College in Southfield, MI, provides much-needed classroom and administrative space. To blend the new construction with an existing building, the project's architect finished the exterior of the addition with 28,000 sq. ft. of Metl-Span CF30 Architectural Flat panels. The 2" panels, installed horizontally, were finished in Regal White and Cool Metallic Silver.

With Programs Plus, re-branding with ALPOLIC aluminum composite material is easier than ever. Flexx Corporation, a Cambridge, Ontario, Canada-based aluminum composite material fabricator/installer, used Programs Plus to order ACM material for the recently renovated Oak-Land Ford dealership in Oakville, Ontario, Canada.

In transforming the museum’s Art & History Galleries, 5,600 square feet of new gallery space was added and a 90-foot stainless steel canopy was added to the main Oak Street entrance to welcome visitors. For its consistent quality and excellent finish, the stainless steel chosen for the project was Contrarian Metal Resources’ InvariMatte®.

The Ocean City Arts Center began as a modest fitness center with racquetball courts, and also included a natatorium and library. Located in Ocean City, NJ, the community center’s continued growth in popularity prompted city administrators and the library’s board of directors to initiate several renovations and additions in an effort to create a true community center. A high-performance standing seam metal roof system from The Garland Company Inc. is now featured on the facility.

Ocean Gateway is a 15,000 square-foot marine passenger terminal located in Portland, ME that accommodates the international ferry traffic between Portland and Nova Scotia. One of the goals of the Ocean Gateway project was to incorporate innovative materials and products on the terminal while continuing to embrace the historical heritage of the city's waterfront setting. Within the scheme of its design, the new building features Omega-Lite® ACM panels from Laminators Inc.

Located on the northernmost tip of Key Largo in the Florida Keys, Ocean Reef Club is one of the country’s most comprehensive private club communities, offering 1,700 waterfront estates, private homes, condominiums and an oceanfront inn. Recently, solar metal roof panels were added to the roof of the club's 6,400 sq. ft. reverse osmosis water plant. It was a project more challenging than it sounds, and one that involved attachment products from S-5!.

Most northern latitude metal contractors were extremely challenged during the 2010-11 winter in getting their projects started. A great example of this is Pat Munger Construction, Inc. of Branford, CT, who had to dig out of more than normal snowfall to start a retrofit re-roofing project. The case in point is a project for Ocean Surveys, Inc. - a scientific data firm - located in Old Saybrook, CT. Roof Hugger, Inc. was called in to help create a retrofit sub-framing system that would eliminate the slope transition.

Bodies in Motion: The Animal Kingdom. That's the branding behind the design of the new Odyssey Elementary School in Farmington, UT. And it was with that in mind that the school's main entrance was adorned with a band of colorful metal tiles, manufactured by ATAS International of Allentown, PA, and finished with premium coatings by Minneapolis-based Valspar.