Featured Projects

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.

To keep up with the company’s growing customer base, SKS Bottle & Packaging Inc. required a new, larger facility. To keep any interruption of service as brief as possible, the 140,000 square foot office and warehouse was constructed with insulated metal panels (IMPs) from Metl-Span.

Dri-Design panels have been known to turn heads for their looks, but they were selected for the Skyway Library in Seattle because they can turn around a building. The entire exterior of the library is wrapped in Dri-Design Wall Panels, creating a landmark destination for the downtown district. The joint venture architects of BuildingWork and Weinstein AU, both of Seattle, were adamant that the last piece of metal panel had to circle back and meet the first—with precision.

Providence College in Providence, R.I., recently installed a metal roof system with thin-film building integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) on the Slavin Center, the college’s student center. The BIPV system on the Slavin Center is known as ATA-Solar, manufactured by ATAS International. Available in a variety of panel options, the ATA-Solar system used on the center’s roof utilizes 24-gauge steel standing-seam roofing panels in a Silversmith color with a thin-film amorphous silicon laminate, by Uni-Solar, applied to the panels.

Completed in December 2010, the new Slidell Cancer Center in Slidell, LA, was designed to meet the region’s cancer treatment needs now and well into the future. Developed by Slidell Memorial Hospital, the $20 million, three-story project features 51,000 sq. ft. of space, with nearly one third dedicated to future use. The building's exterior features a mix of materials, including ALPOLIC aluminum composite material panels fabricated by Altech Panel Systems.

The 4,800 sq. ft. Slotnick residence in Glencoe, IL is the first new home in Chicago’s North Shore area to achieve LEED Platinum certification, the highest LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) rating possible. It's also one of the few LEED homes to take a non-modernist approach to its exterior. Metal roofing by Petersen is featured.

In September 2016, Smart 72 of San Luis Obispo, Calif., contracted with Cal Valley Contractors Inc. of Bakersfield, Calif., and Arris Studio Architects of San Luis Obispo to complete their new office facility. To assist in the design and engineering of the Smart 72 facility, Cal Valley Contractors worked with Ceco Building Systems on the 14,679 square-foot metal building.

SMC³'s new 80,000-square-foot headquarters in Peachtree, Georgia, features an exterior clad with RHEINZINK-GRANUM® Skygrey architectural zinc. Designed by Jefferson Architecture, the sustainable, resilient, natural metal and its evolving patina reflect the company's enduring, innovative and dynamic culture. The project showcases one of the first examples in the U.S. with RHEINZINK-GRANUM material.

Smith Brothers Farms – a Northwest regional food supplier – experienced booming growth during the COVID-19 pandemic when thousands of consumers were using grocery delivery services. Four years later, sales continue to rise for the fourth-generation food supplier and the company is growing its physical footprint. Insulated metal panels chosen for a new facility in Federal Way, WA are from Kingspan Insulated Metal Panels North America.

The new Smith Elementary School replaced an aging 50-year-old facility that no longer met modern standards. Its architects developed a plan that will serve the community for decades to come, with a metal-paneled exterior that certainly looks toward the future. PAC-CLAD panels from Petersen play a key role in the design of the Travis County, Texas project.

When speakers at the groundbreaking ceremony include the sitting President of the United States, you know the building is important. And so it went when President Barack Obama stepped to the podium to commemorate the beginning of construction on the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) in Washington, DC. The building is special and so is the Valspar Corporation's multi-layer paint system that finishes the building's custom aluminum cladding.

The design of this 20,204 square-foot Social Security Administration office in Brownsville, Texas, was influenced by several governmental regulations calling for office staff to work in cubicles. As a result, the project required flexibility in the design of the interior—so, in order to avoid obstructive columns, clear span construction was the obvious choice. Overall, the pre-engineered metal building by Metallic Building Company was chosen because of its durability and ability to withstand strong winds in inclement weather.

Solar Atmospheres of California (SCA), located in Fontana, CA, provides state-of-the-art vacuum thermal processing services. In response to the challenges of California’s energy market, SCA commissioned and installed the state’s largest commercial solar + energy storage system. Products from Colorado Springs, CO-based S-5! played a key role in helping bring the project to fruition.

Solar Innovations’® new 155,000 square foot facility in Pine Grove, PA, showcases the specialty glass enclosure manufacturer’s products complemented by a state-of-the-art, custom-designed manufacturing facility constructed by Hoover Building Specialists, LLC, a Ceco Building Systems authorized builder since 1992.

Solis is no ordinary apartment building. Located in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood, the project is the end result of efforts by designers, visionaries and artisans to create a one-of-a-kind building targeting Passive House Certification. Not surprisingly, the doors marking the building's grand entrance are one-of-a-kind too. Featuring ornate custom grilles, they were manufactured by Fairfax, MN-based Schweiss Doors.

SOLO On Chestnut sits at the corner of 43rd and Chestnut streets in Philadelphia. The 250,000 sq. ft., 7-story multi-use building features over 280 luxury apartments and various retail stores, offering state-of-the-art living in the epicenter of University City, just blocks away from the University of Pennsylvania and Drexel University. Featured on the exterior are Omega-Lite® ACM panels from Laminators Incorporated.

An all-too-typical problem had surfaced in the Somerset Independent School District in South Central Texas: the junior high school built in 1986 for 350 students now housed 600. Enter a $13 million bond issue, Gamma Construction, OCO Architects and Ceco Building Systems, and now the students are comfortably housed in a spacious, extremely striking metal and glass facility.

Soraa, a leading developer of solid-state lighting products, was established on the principles of revolutionary product research and development. It’s only fitting that the company’s new, 82,500-square-foot manufacturing facility showcases the industry’s most modern, high-performance building envelope technology by Metl-Span.

Sometimes it’s the little things that count. Case in point is the Sorensen Station Parkade and Transit Terminal in Red Deer, Alberta, Canada. The design of the three-story parking deck was elevated significantly by the incorporation of a relatively small amount of 4mm-thick Prismatic-finish ALPOLIC/fr aluminum composite material (ACM). Burnt orange-colored Prismatic-finish ACM panels trim the structure’s curved rooftop canopy while multiple colors of Prismatic-finish panels adorn the parking structure’s sidewalls.