Featured Projects

Ohio Gratings, Inc. (OGi) of Canton, Ohio recently provided its aluminum bar screen product for the Tao Condominiums project in Sunrise, Florida. This complex includes both living quarters and a parking structure, both of which were designed to utilize materials that were aesthetically appealing as well as durable, secure and economical. Approximately 13,000 sq. ft. of OGi's aluminum bar screen, with a clear anodized finish, was used in three different areas of the development.

A former call center in Buffalo, NY is now a charter school. Trautman Associates of Buffalo developed the plan for converting the 47,000 sq. ft. building into a contemporary, invigorating environment for learning and used Omega-Lite ACM panels from Laminators Inc. to achieve its design objectives.

Target Field may not have a fancy retractable roof, but it is a fan-friendly facility boasting a great seating plan and one of the largest fixed roof canopies in all of baseball. Charged with wrapping the canopy in metal was M.G. McGrath, one of the nation’s leading fabricators and installers of metal panel systems. The company's work on the new stadium was extensive and included the installation of nearly 270,000 sq. ft. of metal panel products.

The newest addition to the University of Calgary campus in Calgary, Alberta, Canada is the Taylor Family Digital Library. It houses over 9 million assets including 32,000 print monographs, over 1 million maps and aerial photographs, and 847,461 architectural drawings, amongst its wealth of resources. The innovative and sustainable educational center is incomparable to any other facility in North America and competes on a global scale in its support of research and learning. The building’s design incorporates a stainless steel mesh façade by Cambridge Architectural of Cambridge, MD.

While the pair of orange-painted frameworks in front first draw the eye, it is the building behind that's essential to the varied operational needs of Taylor Motors. Within the confines of its 18,612 sq. ft. home in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, Taylor Motors manages its used car business, an auto body shop and a lease car franchise. Utilized for the construction of the new building was a metal building system from Robertson Building Systems.

Modern and stylish woven metal fabric panels from Cambridge Architectural add visual interest and facilitate solar shading for Taylor Place – Arizona State University’s premier residential community in downtown Phoenix, AZ. Taylor Place is the first urban residence hall on campus, featuring a communal ground floor and two 12-story towers that accommodate nearly 1,300 students.

A major renovation and addition to one of the buildings that comprise the Tech Parks Arizona Business Park creates additional working space for potential research and development tenants. Aesthetics played a large role in the choice of insulated metal panels from Metl-Span for the addition.

Befitting the form and function of the new $160 million TELUS Spark Science Centre in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, the project’s architect specified that the sign above the building’s main entrance be faced with metallic-finish aluminum composite material. To ensure that material met the highest standards of quality, the project’s ACM fabricator created the sign’s individual panels from 4mm-thick ALPOLIC/fr material.

The first-place winner in ATAS International’s 2021 project of the year competition in the residential roofs category is a private residence in Temecula, CA. Dutch Seam panels in Dove Grey 24-gauge steel were chosen by the homeowner. This home’s intricate roof included several roof penetrations and cupolas, as well as varying roof planes and angles.

The Tempe (AZ) Transportation Center – a mixed-use center of retail, city offices and leased office space that serves as a link for light rail, bus, bike and pedestrian activities – is one of the first transportation/community buildings in the nation to be submitted for LEED Platinum certification. Included in the $25-million project is the 40,000-square-foot center that officially opened in December 2008, coinciding with the start of Metro light rail operations. The community room’s appearance as a faceted gem is aided by Alucobond® Aluminum Composite Material by Alcan Composites USA, which clads the room’s walls and roof in the custom Spectra Green color and its underside in Platinum.

In the 1940s, inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright’s post-war “organic architecture”, Alfred Browning Parker was at the forefront of Miami’s “modern is regional” design movement. Wright’s influence can be found in many of Parker’s designs, including the Temple Beth El in West Palm Beach, FL. Constructed in 1970, it blends Wright-inspired features with a several-stories-high, nautilus shell-shaped structure that forms the ceiling of the temple’s sanctuary. When the iconic roof form was damaged by hurricanes in 2004 and 2005, it was recovered with jobsite rollformed metal roofing from Englert Inc. of Perth Amboy, NJ.

Located in the gently rolling countryside just outside of this Memphis satellite city is what appears to be the beautiful home of a successful southern country gentleman. It even looks like the Tennessee version of a Kentucky thoroughbred horse farm. Welcome to the Tennessee Baptist Children’s Home Double “B” Boys’ Ranch in Millington. It was the property of a prominent couple who contributed their estate for the boys’ ranch in the late 1980s. The residential structures house 24 boys ages 11 through 18 in family settings. A centerpiece of the facility is the recently-completed pavilion, a custom-designed Ceco Building Systems framed structure.

The newly opened Tennessee College of Applied Technology (TCAT) Smyrna Campus and Nissan Training Center was built on the fundamentals of both higher education and business, with the goal of closing the gap in the supply and future demand of a highly skilled workforce in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math. The 155,000 sq. ft. educational facility is state of the art inside and out. Sleek and stylish, it is clad predominantly with high-performance insulated metal wall panels from Metl-Span.

The new facility for Tennessee Packaging Company in Loudon, TN is impressive throughout. It sports clean lines on the exterior with its sleek metal wall panels on the manufacturing area, and architectural metal roofing and exposed structural steel at the main entry. Metal systems from Varco Pruden Buildings were used to create the 157,503 sq. ft. facility.

In order to consolidate operations previously taking place in separate structures, Terminix decided to construct a new two-story office and warehousing facility on its existing campus in Columbia, SC. Because of the building's high visibility and proximity to Interstate 26, great aesthetics were a must. To elevate the overall design, and also give a nod to the site's original structures, the project's architect incorporated eye-catching panel profiles from McElroy Metal into the look.

When the doors swung open recently to the Mid-South's first residential "green house", visitors inside the remarkable home were sheltered by an energy-efficient roof provided by Memphis, TN-based Varco Pruden Buildings, a division of BlueScope Buildings North America, Inc. The TERRA house, which had its grand opening February 27, 2009, is applying for platinum level LEED certification from the U.S. Green Building Council. If the certification is granted, it would be the first such residence in the state of Tennessee.

While Fairfax County does not require schools to follow LEED certification, sustainable principles were used in the renovation and expansion of Reston, VA's Terraset Elementary School. Among the sustainable products utilized in improving the school's look and function was an Envelope 2000® Deep-Reveal (DRV) metal wall system from Citadel Architectural Products.

At the encouragement of their architect, a Texas couple decided to incorporate a pair of Schweiss Doors hydraulic designer doors into the design of their new home...one for the 3,000-square-foot garage/barn and the other on the fancy basement party room in the home.

Thaden School in Bentonville, Arkansas, celebrates the class of 2021 – the first to graduate from this new independent middle and high school. As the next academic year begins, returning students will be welcomed back to an expanded offering on its 30-acre campus. The three of the newest school buildings – "Reels," "Wheels" and the performing arts center – were designed by Marlon Blackwell Architects and feature architectural coil coatings by Sherwin-Williams.

The newly constructed dual-purpose shed at Thalmann Seed Farm is the definition of modern efficiency and versatility. Replacing a long-standing structure that had served the farm for many years, this new shed ushers in an exciting new era for the operation. For efficiency and long-term, low-maintenance performance, the doors installed at both ends of the new building were both manufactured by Schweiss Doors.