Featured Projects

Woodward Development & Construction, Inc. faced tough competition from economic development agencies in Florida, Kentucky and Indiana and other interests who were already pursuing the new facilities associated with the announced relocation of Shoe Carnival, a major shoe store chain based in Evansville, IN. At stake were a 60,000 sq. ft. Class “A” headquarters building, a 410,000 sq. ft distribution center and 120 new jobs. Metal building systems from Butler Manufacturing Corp. were integral components of both these projects.

The new Shoemaker Travel Center, built along a busy Nebraska highway in Lincoln, was completed in November 2009 with the aid of products from Ceco Building Systems. The 29,000 sq. ft. facility features steel framing, standing seam metal roofing and metal wall panels. The owner describes the building as “a showcase for the metal building industry.”

Located 29 miles northwest of Dallas, TX, The Shops at Highland Village is an upscale, mixed-use lifestyle center consisting of approximately 350,000 sq. ft. of retail and restaurants and 32,000 sq. ft. of office space. More than 108,000 sq. ft. of Petersen’s PAC-CLAD material in a variety of profiles—including 16” Snap-On, 18” High Snap-On, 16” Snap-Clad and 11” Flush Panels—were utilized to create the desired look. All material was finished in Custom Literary Green and Weathered Zinc.

As a diverse, progressive beach community, Santa Monica, CA proved an ideal location for the building of a boutique hotel that is just as progressive in its use of stainless steel to surpass the requirements for LEED Silver certification. The new hotel features stainless steel shingles fabricated from Contrarian Metal Resources' InvariMatte® Stainless.

Metal Sales Manufacturing Corporation, a premier nationwide provider of metal panels for the building and construction industry, supplied metal roofing that tops the new Show Low Public Library in Show Low, AZ, providing an eco-friendly roofing option with an aesthetic that expresses both local charm and a modern edge. The library is the first ground-up build of its kind for the community, and marked the initial phase of a two-part streetscape improvement project.

Though not necessarily by intention, the use of mirrored stainless steel panels for the building’s angled soffit creates the eye-catching illusion of bent support columns outside the new ShoWare Center in Kent, Washington. The soffit panels, along with the matching mirror-finish stainless steel column covers, were manufactured by Firestone Metal Products of Anoka, MN. Completed in December 2008, the ShoWare Center is a 154,000 sq. ft. multi-purpose entertainment event center that also serves as the ice hockey home of the Seattle Thunderbirds semi-professional team.

Architect Bayne Collins was thumbing through a book on old Cuba when he spotted the picture of a 19th Century Cuban cigar factory that would ultimately become the inspiration for his design of a new oceanfront restaurant building in Panama City, Florida called the Shrimp Boat. Among the materials used for the building's construction was jobsite-rollformed Englert metal roofing.

The 300,000 sq. ft. Siemens Wind Turbine Facility in Hutchinson, KS produces nacelles for the company's 2.3-MW and 3.0-MW wind power turbines. Given the factory’s sustainable mission, it was important that the building itself was as well. The result is a factory – featuring metal products from CENTRIA - that achieved LEED® Gold certification.

The artistic shade screen on the new Science and Humanities Building at the Sierra Canyon School in Chatsworth, CA, offers a pleasing break from the ordinary for students looking through it and for passers-by looking at it. The curved screen, made of perforated Kalzip aluminum panels, is a key design component of the 54,000-square-foot building that includes classrooms, a library, science and laboratory facilities, and a student center.

With more than 25 years of experience as a crop duster, Rich Sigurdson of Olivia, MN knows a thing or two about farming. And he knows a bit about hangar construction too. That's why he designed his new hangar to include Schweiss bifold doors at both ends. The doors provide the reliability Sigurdson was looking for, while also adding to the efficiency of his business.

Conventional wisdom says to limit the number of metal roof penetrations whenever possible. The fewer the number, experts say, the lower the risk of a leak developing at some point due to less-than-perfect workmanship. The same holds true for panel splice points. Those that don’t exist can never become a problem. But how do you eliminate splice points on a roof that’s 136’ wide? That was the challenge at Silver Run Elementary School in Millville, NJ, and was met by the use of an Englert jobsite-rollformed metal roof system.

Solid construction and aesthetic style led the developers of SilverWing at Sandpoint airpark to select hangar doors from Schweiss Doors.

With its engaging design and energy efficient features, the Simcoe County Administrative Centre in Midhurst, Ontario is the pre-eminent public service building in Simcoe County. Its status was earned with the recent construction of a 70,000 sq. ft. addition clad in large part with titanium zinc from RHEINZINK America Inc.

As a 30-year pilot in the captain’s seat for Continental and United Airlines, Kirk Simonds has been a part of many successful landings. In retirement, his landing spot is in The Woodlands, Texas, about 30 miles northwest of Houston. Going up instead of out, he expanded his garage in 2017. As part of the project, he replaced his old garage door with a state-of-the-art 18' x 7' bifold door from Schweiss Doors.

A new 64-foot by 64-foot private-use residential hangar, recently built by Peter C. Schmidt Construction and owned by Merri Ann Simonson, is located near Roche Harbor Airport on San Juan Island, WA. The hangar has a 60-foot wide, 18-foot tall bifold liftstrap door from Schweiss Doors. It has an automatic arm latch system.

The Sims Sunset Park Materials Recovery Facility, a public-private collaboration between Sims Metal Management and the City of New York, has been making headlines and physical progress at an amazing rate. Tasked with processing Department of Sanitation waste from the city’s five boroughs, the new facility - featuring Nucor Building Systems products - was commissioned as a part of Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s 2030 PlaNYC goal to improve air quality, reduce traffic and divert 75 percent of the city’s solid waste from landfills.

When wholesale foods distributor Sirna & Sons Produce decided on a major expansion to its warehouse and offices in Ravenna, OH, the aesthetic goal was modern industrial. To achieve it, the project's architect made extensive use of insulated metal wall panel systems from Metl-Span.

A 2,000 sq. ft. addition to the Siskin Steel & Supply building in Chattanooga, TN has made a huge impact on the appearance of the company’s headquarters. Linked to an existing brick structure, the expansion includes a new lobby, administrative offices and training room. Approximately 1,250 sq. ft. of Dri-Design 18 ga. stainless steel wall panels were utilized to create the transformation. The addition was designed by Franklin & Associates of Chattanooga, TN, with the installation of the metal wall panels handled by GenTech Construction Co., also of Chattanooga.

To meet the increasing demand for lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles, SK Battery America has established a new production facility in Commerce, GA. To ensure the factory building is as energy efficient as EVs are intended to be, the exterior walls of the massive facility were clad with insulated metal panels from Kingspan.

HPA architects, based in Irvine, CA, incorporated a number of cladding products on the exterior of the new 1.82 million sq. ft. Skechers Distribution facility in Rancho Belago, CA. Among them was 86,000 square feet of Bright Silver Omega-Lite aluminum composite panels, manufactured by Laminators Incorporated. When certified, the project will be the largest LEED certified structure in the U.S.