Featured Projects

Located on 4.5+ acres in the heart of Black Forest, Colorado, the new S-5! corporate headquarters and campus consists of a two-story office building that sports exterior and interior metal finishes, and is a comfortable yet provocative space for the company, and an adjacent support building that houses the company’s video training center, a prototype shop and test facilities.

The Sacramento Department Of Motor Vehicles field office required a complex phased construction design because the site improvements needed to take place while the building was occupied and functioning. The renovation featured architectural metal products from CENTRIA.

Having been constructed in the 1960s, Sacramento International Airport’s Terminal B had become both outdated and undersized. As a remedy to the facility’s shortcomings, Sacramento County Airport System officials decided to modernize and expand. That decision resulted in the construction of the airport's new Central Terminal B, Airside Concourse and Automated People Mover. The roof of the Airside Concourse is InvariMatte® stainless steel, a product of Contrarian Metal Resources.

We all make choices. Sometimes those choices can have an extraordinary impact on the results. Denny Sadowski chose to build his home sustainably. His goal was to build the most maintenance-free home possible while achieving a sophisticated look that would last indefinitely. By incorporating InvariMatte stainless steel from Contrarian Metal Resources, he made that goal a reality.

Whirlwind Solar, a Division of Whirlwind Steel Buildings, Inc., in conjunction with Corey Saft, an Architecture Professor at University of Louisiana at Lafayette, has completed the first application of Solar Laminates on a certified ‘Passive House’. The solar array, laminated to the Whirlwind Weather Snap metal system, is sized at 3.264 kW.

Inspired by noted American architect Norman Jaffe, the strikingly contemporary Sagaponack Residence on Long Island is highlighted by distinctively unique angles both inside and out. Lending to this home's icon-inspired design was RHEINZINK titanium-zinc. It covers the majority of the home's walls and roof, providing the desired look and durability.

Saginaw Valley State University's Pioneer Hall continues to draw praise from students, staff and the surrounding Saginaw, Michigan community. Not only was Pioneer Hall the first "green" building on the Saginaw Valley State University (SVSU) campus, it was also the first project in the northeastern and mid-Michigan areas to earn Silver certification under the LEED® Green Building Rating System™, thanks in part to curtainwall units manufactured by Tubelite Inc.

The new Saia LTL Freight facility in St. Peters, MO, was designed with company branding in mind. The colors and products chosen, including metal roofing from McElroy Metal, were a true team decision.

Sailfish Point, Florida, is a small island near Port St. Lucie and West Palm Beach. It is surrounded by beautiful blue skies and pure saltwater. Homeowners located there were looking to replace their roof that had been installed approximately 20 years before, and they asked Total Roofing Systems to help them. This led to the selection of blue Tedlar® PVF film laminated onto aluminum.

Though contemporary, the new Saint Mary of the Cross Mausoleum at the Melbourne General Cemetery in Melbourne, Australia exhibits the qualities of traditional funerary architecture. It was designed by Harmer Architecture of Collingwood, Melbourne, and features VMZINC®. In the U.S., the marketing, sales and support of VMZINC® is through Umicore Building Products, USA Inc.

Totaling 27,058 square feet, the new Saints Peter & Paul School And Parish Center in Seneca, KS, utilized a custom metal building from Star Building Systems. Completed in August 2009, Star’s SMS structural framing system provides the structure of the new facility. The exterior materials include a StarShield Standing Seam Roof system formed from Galvalume-coated steel, Star’s DuraRib wall system in an Almond color, and MBCI’s CFW II wall system in a Brownstone finish.

A new seven-story, 360,000 sq. ft. tower is at the heart of Salem Hospital’s downtown campus in Salem, OR. The projected $285 million expansion project opened on time and $2 million under budget. Approximately 30,000 sq. ft. of Citadel Envelope 2000® Rain Screen (RS) metal composite material panels were utilized. The panels were finished in Seafoam Green and Sandstone. In addition, 17,000 sq. ft. of Citadel GlazeGuard® 1000 glazing infill panels were also installed.

With energy efficiency and aesthetics both important considerations, the designers of the new Salk Middle School in Spokane, WA, chose products from Kingspan Insulated Panels - North America as major components of construction. The project's first phase of construction utilized Kingspan's BENCHMARK Designwall 2000 panels while the second phase incorporated the company's KarrierPanel backup wall system under corrugated siding.

The new Salt Lake City Public Safety Building is a success in every conceivable way. Beautiful, functional, energy efficient and resilient, the building embodies the aspirations of local government. Contributing to the building's beauty, as well as its performance, are architectural coating systems from Valspar.

Situated on the Gulf Coast of Texas just east of Houston, Port Arthur is a picturesque location that also faces natural challenges like 2017’s Hurricane Harvey. With that in mind, when the Port Arthur Independent School District passed a $190 million bond issue and was planning the construction of two new elementary schools, they chose The Garland Company Inc.'s R-Mer Shield for the metal roofs.

Sam’s Tavern, located on Pike Street in Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood, is said to serve not only the best Bloody Mary in the city, but according to USA Today, one of the best in the entire country! As with any acclaimed bar or restaurant, seating at Sam’s can sometimes be hard to come by. To help boost capacity and provide the best possible experience for customers, the pub has a patio seating area that can be used rain or shine, thanks to the incorporation of glass-clad hydraulic doors from Schweiss Doors.

In addition to private residences, the Danish Island of Samsø is home to the Samsø Energy Academy, a public entity that assists Danish and foreign scientists in sustainability endeavors. The Academy building itself is designed to meet ecological and sustainability principles and to that end, its roof is comprised of 6,800 sq. ft. of RHEINZINK® integrated solar Quick Step panels. They support 1,000 sq. ft. of photovoltaic cells and solar hot water generating panels that provide domestic hot water for the facility.

Samsung’s new 1.1 million square foot Device Solutions America headquarters building is nearing completion, and turning heads. The impressive 10-story masterpiece in San Jose, CA is visible from miles away, standing dominant among the surrounding Silicon Valley low-rise sprawl. Sitting atop the new headquarters, helping streamline its equipment-cluttered roof, is 900' lineal feet of screening from RoofScreen Mfg.

As one of 11 artists selected by the San Antonio River Foundation to enhance the beauty of their city’s iconic River Walk, Stuart Allen selected a stainless steel wire mesh manufactured by Banker Wire, Milwaukee, Wisconsin as his medium to apply his artistic expression.

Soaring 210 feet over a latticework of bayside runways, the new air traffic control tower at San Francisco International Airport (SFO) was designed by Fentress Architects in the shape of a sleek, swirling beacon of metal and glass. A central highlight of the tower’s design is a unitized curtain wall, illuminated by a backlit glass façade, and accentuated by a framing system finished with Duranar Sunstorm XL Silver coating by PPG.