Featured Projects

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.

A skywalk was installed to connect two buildings within the Scioto Peninsula neighborhood of downtown Columbus, Ohio. The creative use of perforated metal and angular supports in the skywalk’s design resulted in an attractive addition to its surroundings. The perforated side panels - manufactured by ATAS International - allow for air circulation and sightlines, creating a feeling of openness and continuity while moving from building to building.

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.

Alcoa Architectural Products’ (AAP) Reynobond Aluminum Composite Material (ACM) helped make it possible to achieve the dramatically sloping façade of the award-winning Seidman Cancer Center. Located in Cleveland, Ohio, the Center is designated by the National Cancer Institute as a Comprehensive Cancer Center. The Cancer Center was designed according to the U.S. Green Building Council’s (USGBC) Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) green building principles, and is registered for certification.

Integrated Roof Solutions Inc. completed a retrofit re-roofing project for the Select Inn hotel located in Murfreesboro, TN. The hotel’s existing exposed fastened R-Panel roof was in need of replacement after servicing the building for over 30 years. In lieu of removing the metal panels and exposing the building interior to the elements, a retrofit sub-framing system manufactured by Roof Hugger Inc. was used.

Sephora is known for its retail concept, which combines an extensive array of beauty and cosmetic products and distinctive store design. The new Sephora Robson Street retail store in downtown Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada features the company logo as a unique sculptural element formed with aluminum composite material (ACM) from 3A Composites USA.

The former Dell Customer Service and Training Centre in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, is now the Servus Credit Union Corporate Headquarters. In renovating the building for the new owner/occupant, Manasc Isaac Architects addressed inherent thermal performance issues while modernizing the building inside and out. Products picked to cover the original brick and precast exterior elevations included both smooth and ribbed metal wall systems from VICWEST.

Respecting the heritage of the casino's owners, the Red Lake Band of the Chippawa Indians, DSGW Architects of Duluth, MN, designed the new Seven Clans Casino Red Lake to resemble a traditional tribal “longhouse” – or gathering place – while incorporating contemporary building materials such as Alucobond® aluminum composite material (ACM) by 3A Composites USA and a sophisticated color-changing LED exterior lighting system.

Based in the county seat of Sevierville, Tennessee, the Sevier County Utility District serves more than 14,000 customers in Sevier and adjacent Blount counties. When the utility, which is also an agency of the county’s government, determined it needed a new employee training facility, it decided the new structure should offer amenities to the broader community, as well. Featured prominently are a variety of metal panels by Petersen.

San Francisco International Airport (SFO), one of the busiest airports in the United States, recently completed a new building called the SFO Consolidated Administration Campus. Its purpose is to house workers from four departments – administration, landside, terminal and airside operations – all under one roof. A key component in the new building's construction was insulated metal wall panels from Kingspan Insulated Panels - North America.

A combination of three stainless steel mesh patterns woven by Cambridge Architectural envelop the exterior facade of the new 700-space parking garage at The Universities at Shady Grove (USG) in Rockville, MD. The $20 million project, completed this spring, is expected to be one of the first parking facilities in the world to achieve Green Garage Certification under the Green Parking Council’s new rating system.