Featured Projects

The new Sunrise Mainline Toll Plaza on the Sawgrass Expressway west of Ft. Lauderdale, FL, represents a transformation of the aging expressway to a “highway of tomorrow.” The $26 million design/build project offers the first open road tolling (ORT) in south Florida, using a double-span signature gantry for collection of tolls from high-speed vehicles. The toll plaza utilizes approximately 11,000 sq. ft. of PAC-CLAD .032” corrugated aluminum panels from Petersen Aluminum Corp. The 7/8” panels were finished in Silver Metallic. In addition, 5,400 sq. ft. of .125 plate aluminum was custom perforated and spray coated.

Located in Clifton Park, NY, the 55,000 sq. ft. Clifton Park Halfmoon Library is a model of environmentally advanced architecture and was designed to capture energy savings in the millions of dollars. The $15 million facility was built with a grant from the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority, and was designed and built with the environment foremost in mind, notes library officials. Among its many sustainable elements is its 9,000 sq. ft. Englert standing seam metal roof.

The ornate design of the new Lin’s Asian Buffet in Oklahoma City, OK, relies heavily on complex radius theme elements utilizing approximately 1,200 feet of Flex-C Trac® and Flex-C Arch flexible framing products from Flex-Ability Concepts. Elaborate arches and circular ceiling applications are a trademark interior look for the Texas-based chain of restaurants. Flex-C Trac was also used to frame the curved exterior roof edges that helped create a pagoda-like appearance.

When officials at the non-profit Greater Sudbury Housing Corporation (GSHC) wanted to reduce energy consumption at their largest building, they charged Richard Munn, manager of technical services, with determining the best course of action. Though there were many options that would've provided the desired result, most were cost prohibitive. One that wasn't was SolarWall®, a transpired solar-collecting metal wall panel system that delivers naturally warmed air directly into the building's ventilation system.

The Utility Line Building is not the most imposing structure on the Northeast Community College campus in Norfolk, Nebraska, but it is one of the most interesting. The 36,800-square-foot facility houses the only indoor utility pole setting lab in the U.S., allowing students to learn year-round the skills required to do work for power and utility companies. Norfolk-based Crafts Inc., an independent authorized Varco Pruden Builder, was the general contractor. Crafts Inc. used a wide variety of VP products, including the pre-engineered metal frame.

To deliver a look consistent with the dealership’s desired image, Commercial Building Services of Loveland, CO, specified 6,700 sq. ft. of Laminators Inc. Omega-Lite® ACM (aluminum composite material) wall panels in a Bright Silver PDVF paint finish for the exterior of the new Heritage Ford Lincoln Mercury showroom in Loveland. A design build contractor, Commercial Building Services also fabricated the panels at the job site and then attached them using Laminators’ patented Clip & Caulk installation system with contrasting black caulk.

The University of Calgary’s Child Development Centre is the largest project in Canada to achieve LEED Platinum certification. The 125,000 sq. ft. facility focuses on supporting organizations working together for the benefit of children. With the University mandating that all new capital projects be built to a high level of sustainability, options for the building's north and south exterior facades were eventually narrowed to 1.2mm RHEINZINK® zinc panels. Approximately 25,000 sq. ft. of the Preweathered Graphite Grey horizontal reveal panels were utilized on the four-story building.

The new Natural Sciences Building at South Puget Sound Community College, Olympia, WA, features 6,592 square feet of Kalzip TF800R on its exterior walls and color-matched extruded aluminum flashings. The 52,000 square foot three-story structure was designed to complement an existing science lab and classroom building on the western edge of the campus. The Kalzip 0.040-gauge aluminum décor helped fulfill both aesthetic and functional needs. The project was completed in October 2008. Ben Dalton of the Miller Hull Partnership, Seattle, WA was the project manager during construction and the firm was architect of record on the project.

Designed by Gresham Smith and Partners of Greenville, SC, and opened to the public in October 2008, the new Village Hospital in Greer, SC, is a patient-friendly, 45-bed facility that blends both form and function. Its attractive, low-maintenance exterior features a variety of materials, including 10,000 sq. ft. of Copper Penny-finished Reynobond aluminum composite panels. While the Reynobond material itself was manufactured by Alcoa Architectural Products of Eastman, GA, the project’s ACM panels were fabricated by SAF Metal Fabrication of Atlanta, GA.

The Stephen D. Persinger Recreational Center in Geneva, Illinois, is a new 50,000-square-foot building surrounded by hundreds of acres of rolling parkland. It houses a fitness center, a three-lane indoor running track, two full-court gymnasiums, an indoor playground, an aerobics/dance studio and four multi-purpose program rooms. The structure was built in part by Rockford, Illinois-based Area Erectors, Inc., with materials supplied by Varco Pruden Buildings, Inc. (VP Buildings) one of the nation’s largest providers of metal building systems.

Located in the Southeast Quadrant of Old Town Alexandria, VA, Ford's Landing features 136 luxury townhomes on the banks of the Potomac River. Once home to an old Ford plant, the developer, EYA of Bethesda, Maryland, transformed this abandoned property into one of the most highly regarded communities in the greater Washington, D.C. area. The development's units are topped with six different colors of Englert Series 1300 standing seam roofing, manufactured at the job site by Nash Roofing of Fredericksburg, MD.

Southwest College, a Los Angeles-area community college in the Westmont neighborhood of the Inglewood district, has chosen Custom-Bilt Metals Cool Roof standing seam metal roofing to significantly reduce its energy costs and contribute to green building energy certification. Custom-Bilt Metals roofing products cover the college’s recently-completed new construction of facilities that include a student services and activities center, maintenance and operations center, parking structure, field house, and general use and concessions building.

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.

More than 11,000 linear feet of Flex-Ability Concepts’ Flex-C Trac® hand-curvable track were used to frame dramatic curves that are prominently featured inside the Cherokee Hotel and Casino in Tulsa, OK. Subcontractor Green Country Interiors, of Tulsa, chose the flexible track product for a number of reasons, most importantly time and labor savings. Frank Wheeler, partner with Flex-Ability Concepts and inventor of Flex-C Trac®, explained that the alternative “cutting and snipping” method of framing curves can take upwards of 20 to 30 minutes per 10-foot piece. By using the flexible track product, the labor was cut down to as little as 5 minutes per 10-foot piece.

When radio talk show host Big John began making plans for a new house in Holly Hill, Florida, he knew he needed a place that would be strong enough to stand up to a hurricane and large enough to live up to his name. With the help of insulated metal panels from MeTecno USA, which has since been acquired by Kingspan Insulated Panels, Inc., John created the contemporary loft known as the “Big House on the Hill.”

The Dayton Children’s Outpatient Care Center—Springboro, located in Miamisburg, OH, offers pediatric urgent care, medical imaging and rehabilitative services. The new 20,000 sq. ft. facility, located on an 11-acre site, is seeking LEED certification and benefits. Its exterior features approximately 4,700 sq. ft. of Dri-Design wall panels in three striking colors. The .080"-thick aluminum panels were finished in Light Green, Marlin Blue and Dark Green/Juniper. Large, backlit smiling faces of children were inserted in the Dri-Design cladding.

A Kalzip 65/400 aluminum standing seam system has been chosen to clad the new $16.3 million Air Traffic Control Tower at Newcastle International Airport in the North of England. Designed by 3D Reid Architects, this very distinctive 150’-high vase-like structure boasts several cascading tiers of tapered Kalzip panels with widths varying between 12 and 18 inches. Installed by Teamkal contractor Lakesmere Ltd, UK, for main contractor Sir Robert McAlpine, UK, the Kalzip system provides a cost effective, compact solution that serves to complete the striking geometry of this futuristic building.

Two clients—Kennecott Land and the Jordan School District, both located in Salt Lake Valley—established program requirements for this Utah project. They wanted the facility to be planned, designed and built with the concept of shared use of space as the primary goal. The result was a LEED Silver certified facility that could be used to accommodate education, recreation and community gathering needs for a new residential community called Daybreak. A prominent feature of the Daybreak Elementary School project is metal roofing by MBCI. The architect selected the LokSeam SSR system, a snap-together system.

The new Aerzen USA plant in Coatesville, PA is one of the most environmentally-friendly industrial buildings in the state and is believed to be Pennsylvania’s first manufacturing facility to achieve LEED Gold certification. Aerzen manufactures high-end industrial blowers, vacuum pumps and compressors. A key feature in the facility’s energy-efficient, environmentally friendly design was its Metl-Span insulated metal wall and roof panels. Approximately 54,000 sq. ft. were utilized.

A Solucent™ woven metal mesh application from Cambridge Architectural provides a first-of-its-kind exterior shading and daylighting system, dramatically reducing solar heat gain and cooling costs for a new facility on the University of Washington’s South Lake Union campus. The facility is part of UW Medicine’s new research hub in the South Lake Union area of Seattle. Cambridge’s Solucent mesh application was installed over the windows on the exterior façade of the building to provide a unique and modern aesthetic, while contributing to substantial energy savings through solar shading.