Featured Projects

A woven metal mesh system from Cambridge Architectural serves as both a stunning and sustainable exterior accent for the ultramodern Santa Monica Civic Center parking garage in Santa Monica, CA. The 900-space garage was designed not only to visually inspire but to meet or exceed many of the USGBC’s LEED guidelines. The structure employs various sustainable design and construction practices, materials and products – including Cambridge’s architectural mesh.

Some of the nicest homes you’ll ever see are located along the coastline of California. Los Angeles Construction & Development has been instrumental in building a number of these homes, some of which contain hydraulic and bifold liftstrap designer doors from Schweiss Doors.

Santiago Canyon College is one of the newest community colleges in California. Located in Orange, CA, the college serves approximately 10,000 students in a state-of-the-art learning environment. The college’s new 60,000 sq. ft. science center combines traditional lecture spaces, faculty offices and high-tech laboratories for chemistry, biology, physics and other sciences. The two-structure building is clad with two types of metal panel systems from Citadel Architectural Products.

The new six-story Sarasota Police Headquarters Facility is Florida’s first LEED® Certified facility, and one of only 33 LEED Certified police facilities in the country. Designed to be an open and inviting visual icon, the structure includes a large vertical entry plaza facing south. The exterior also includes a secondary screen wall to shade the building, and to provide frames through which to view historic Payne Park. Perforated screening from CENTRIA played a key role in the project.

Dating back to 1926, the Sarasota Yacht Club offers a high-profile waterfront location that is inviting to members and tropical storms alike. The club’s new 22,000 sq. ft. building is built up and replaces an on-grade structure that frequently bore the brunt of storms. The new roof is built to Florida Building Code negative wind uplift pressures of 130 mph and utilizes 23,000 sq. ft. of .040” aluminum PAC-CLAD Tite-Loc Plus panels by Petersen Aluminum.

Preservationists have opposed changes at New York’s historic Saratoga Race Course that would compromise or negatively affect the track’s Victorian charm. And they seem so far to have friends in all the right places. As part of a recently completed round of improvements, the grandstand’s 10,000 sq. ft. clubhouse roof was removed and replaced. And as before, it is topped again with hand-crafted copper standing seam. The panels, as well as all necessary flashings, trim, gutters, etc., were fabricated and installed by WeatherGuard Roofing Co. a Tecta America Company, using 16 oz. copper manufactured by Revere Copper.

The power of a community center is dependent on the initiative of the community and the performance of the center. In Presque Isle, Maine, the Sargent Family Community Center is a recent addition that has changed how the community gathers, plays and develops. The new center, which replaces a smaller 1940’s structure in need of renovations, welcomes residents from the moment the building is in sight. Helping to grab their attention are the building's metal wall panels--Panel 20® by Citadel Architectural Products.

The residents of Saugus, MA celebrate their history and keep it alive in the industrial and colonial architecture that can be seen throughout town. The new Saugus Middle High School is an extension of this, reflecting the town’s history steeped in iron works, ice and lobstering, while embracing a STEAM-driven education focus. A combination of Dri-Design aluminum panels were used at the entrance of the school to express this goal.

In the early stages of planning for a new police station in a fast-growing suburb of Milwaukee, police officials discovered Rytec Doors. And when an architect was selected to design the community's knew police station, they insisted Rytec® Spiral® high-speed roll-up doors be included.

The 31,000 sq. ft. Spring Lake Park, Blaine, Mounds View Fire Station in Blaine, MN, represents a merger of two older stations. Designed by Tushie Montgomery Architecture of Minneapolis, MN, and completed in September 2006, it features on its exterior metal construction products from Firestone Metal Products of Anoka, MN.

A signature feature of A/d Amstel Architecten's design for a pair of new buildings at the Scheper Hospital in Emmen, Netherlands was a prestigious entranceway, characterized by 11,300 sq. ft. of curved Kalzip 54/400 stucco embossed aluminium panels, formed using Kalzip XT rollforming technology. The panels were configured to form an open, upturned half barrel which extends over the fully glazed central projection of the building.

The best customers are the customers that feel good about what they have purchased. Dean Schneider, a crops and livestock farmer in New Ulm, Minn., opened up his new farm shop for a community fundraiser. Schweiss Doors made it an opening everyone will remember.

Varco Pruden Builder™ Appalachian Design & Development, Inc. constructed Scholar’s Rooftop Apartments, a modern housing property on the northern edge of downtown Bloomington, Ind.

Scholfield Buick GMC in Wichita, Kansas is sporting a new state-of-the-art facility thanks to Conco Construction, an American Buildings Company Authorized Builder. The project was one of the most complicated in Conco’s history with eight separate engineered buildings, more than 25 exterior building corners and multiple roof elevations.

The School District of Indian River County (SDIRC) has a new Support Services Complex, located in Vero Beach, Florida. The complex, built by Summit Construction of Vero Beach LLC, an American Buildings Company (ABC) Authorized Builder, consists of an 80,000-square-foot metal building and CMU block building. The new building allows the school district to consolidate their many different departments.

For 100 years, the Scottish Rite Cathedral in Chicago, Illinois had been located at the corner of Dearborn and Walton Streets, directly across from Washington Square Park. After a study of its membership, the fraternal organization associated with the Freemasons concluded that a majority of its members had migrated from the north shore to the western suburbs. Now there is a new facility, in a new location, topped by curved metal roofing from Petersen Aluminum.

Glare is a very real concern when specifying metal roofing for projects in close proximity to airports. And the low-glare characteristics of the material was one of the key reasons why Contrarian Metal Resources’ InvariMatte® stainless steel was specified for the Scottsdale Air Center in Scottsdale, Arizona. Carter Burgess Architects designed the streamlined new building and also chose InvariMatte material for its ability to withstand UV rays and exposure to jet fuel residue. Plus the material looks great and is eco-friendly.

Tedlar® PVF film was selected as a protective roofing material for the Sea Crest Condos in Hilton Head, South Carolina in 2022. The project includes a 6-story building, constructed approximately 20 years prior, which sits directly on the beach of the Atlantic Ocean. The existing steel roof panels and framing of the building were severely corroded and the owner was looking for a long-term solution to withstand an extremely corrosive environment.

The "Building Hope" expansion of the Seattle Children's Hospital was designed with family needs and operational efficiency in mind. One of the objectives of Zimmer Gunsul Frasca, the project's architect, was to create a look for the building that was both soothing and inviting. That was achieved in part through the use of custom wall panels on the exterior. They were fabricated from VMZINC®, a product of Umicore Building Products USA.

There’s a saying – Go big, or go home. And that's precisely what SEI Construction of Morristown, TN did with its decision to incorporate bifold hangar doors from Schweiss Doors on hangars they own and lease at the Morristown Regional Airport. The largest of the three measures 80' wide and 28' tall, while the two smaller doors are still impressively sized at 60' wide and 24' tall.