Featured Projects

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.

More than 12,000 sq. ft. of Citadel Envelope 2000® Rain Screen played a key role in the design of the new headquarters building of The Columbian daily newspaper, Vancouver, WA. The Columbian is one of the few remaining independent dailies in the U.S. and the largest in southwest Washington. The Citadel metal composite material (MCM) panels were finished in Charcoal Metallic and interface with precast brick and concrete.

mhs homes is one of the UK’s leading social housing providers. When the agency commissioned Hazle McCormack Young LLP of Tunbridge, Wells, England to design for it a new headquarters building, energy efficiency was among the expressed priorities. For the architect’s part, it had priorities too, and one of them was to make sure the standing seam metal roof system chosen for the project was the very best available. In choosing Kalzip, the firm got the roof system it wanted and the technical support it needed to see the building’s challenging roof design through to successful completion.

Located in Carmel, IN, the newly completed Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church is both traditional and unique. And while similarities and differences between it and the usual byzantine-orthodox style would be most familiar to those in the know, the building's massive golden dome is something everyone can appreciate. Measuring 52' in diameter and weighing 50 tons, it is clad with standing seam metal roof panels that were fabricated and installed by M.G. McGrath of Maplewood, MN. The firm also fit sheet metal to the 20 round window dormers that surround the dome, and shop-fabricated two smaller domes that top towers located on either side of the building's main entrance.

Cool roofing metals are sustainable and energy efficient. But equally as important, these new-generation coated metals offer tremendous freedom of choice when it comes to color. At Sheffield Metals International, the company’s COOLR® metals are available in a wide range of 70% Kynar 500® or Hylar 5000®-based colors, including Colonial Red. Roofing metal with a Colonial Red paint finish was recently used by Cumberland Fabrication of Fayetteville, NC, to produce 4,000 sq. ft. of standing seam roofing for a branch location of the Fort Bragg Federal Credit Union in North Carolina. Cumberland was also the roof system installer.

Visitors to the International Quilt Study Center and Museum in Lincoln, NE will immediately notice a different kind of fabric – architectural mesh – draping the expansive windows of the venue and dividing the space within. Cambridge Architectural’s Solucent™ metal mesh interior application is suspended in tension parallel to the museum’s windows inside the building. The mesh shades the sun and eases the light gradually as patrons walk through, while Cambridge’s LandscapeInteriors™ system fashionably divides the interior space. Each Cambridge system employs lustrous woven metal fabric – complementing the building’s theme perfectly.

10-50 Jackson Avenue is a luxury condominium that is part of the transformation of Long Island City into one of the most exciting new locations of urban life in the New York Metropolitan Area. The 20-story building was designed by Gene Kaufman Architects of New York City. Known for their use of distinctive and innovative exterior materials, the architect selected Omega-Lite® ACM panels, manufactured by Laminators Inc. of Hatfield, PA.

The spectacular new Buffalo Thunder Resort, located 12 miles north of Santa Fe, NM, is designed to be a Four-Star destination and includes a 150,000 sq. ft. Las Vegas style casino, a 390-room Hilton Santa Fe North hotel and complete luxury and conference amenities. Sited on 587 acres, the resort is owned by the Pueblo of Pojoaque. Approximately 7,000 linear feet of Flex-C Trac® was utilized to create spectacular theming elements, soffits and radiuses. The Flex-C Trac system provides an easy way for builders to frame high quality curves by utilizing a simple, flexible metal track or plate for use with wood or metal studs.

Metal roofing and siding from AEP Span of West Sacramento, CA, was among the key products utilized in the design of the newly completed Mercer Slough Environmental Education Center in Bellevue, WA. The center is comprised of a series of buildings built into the forest at the edge of Mercer Slough. It acts as both a gathering space for nature lovers and an environmental education center for people of all ages. The project's architect was Mark Johnson of Jones & Jones Architects.

Cool roofing metals are sustainable and energy efficient. But equally as important, these new-generation coated metals offer tremendous freedom of choice when it comes to color. At Sheffield Metals International—one of the country’s leading providers of roofing coil and flat stock to jobsite metal roofing manufacturers—the company’s COOLR® metals are available in a wide range of colors, including metallics and low-glosses. It was low-gloss Antique Black that was chosen for a large home nearing completion in central Virginia. The project’s 10,200 sq. ft. standing seam metal roof system was manufactured and installed by Blue Ridge Roofing Inc. of Charlottesville, VA.

A sleek LandscapeInteriors™ metal fabric application from Cambridge Architectural elegantly dresses a gallery ceiling and building elevators inside the high-tech Newseum in Washington, D.C. The news-centered museum is located between the White House and the U.S. Capitol on the National Mall, and boasts world-class architecture from Polshek Partnership Architects. It houses seven levels of unparalleled artifacts, media and interactive experiences that tell the five-centuries-old story of news, highlighting both contemporary and historic issues.

WGBH, the nation’s preeminent creator of public broadcast content, recently consolidated operations from a dozen buildings into a three-facility complex in Boston, MA. Morin, a division of Kingspan Insulated Panels Inc., provided metal panels for the $85 million USGBC Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design® (LEED) certified headquarters, which includes offices, a 210-seat theater and an 1,800 square-foot performance studio.

Located in Grass Valley, Calif., Chapa-De Indian Health Clinic is one of three California-based clinics owned by Chapa-De Indian Health Program, Inc. A defining feature of the clinic—which was completed in September 2008—is a complex roof design that incorporates many hips and valleys, and very few straight panels, to create a unique appearance. Custom-Bilt Metals’ Titan Standing Seam SL-1750 panels were selected for the clinic’s roofs with a Titan Cool Roof coating in a Moss Green color.

After years of shared space and retrofitted facilities, Mid America Baptist Theological Seminary in Memphis, TN, has a brand new, high-tech campus building constructed to meet its specific needs. The 130,000 sq. ft. main building includes a 1,000-seat auditorium, 13 classrooms, eight lecture and seminar halls, dining hall and full-service bookstore open to the public. Approximately 34,000 sq. ft. of Petersen 18” Snap-Clad™ panels finished in Dark Bronze was utilized for the mansard style roof. In addition, 26,000 sq. ft. of material finished in Bone White was used for custom fascia and cornices.

Located at the edge of an expanding community, the new Modesto Commerce Bank, a branch of the Bank of Stockton, is a modern facility for a banking institution that is rooted in the history and landscape of California’s Central Valley. Playing a prominent role in the bank’s design are standing seam metal roofing — incorporating photovoltaics — and walls panels from Metal Sales Manufacturing Corp., as well as exposed structural steel tubing by Amerifab.

This 10,000 sq. ft. home located in a prestigious area of Salt Lake City, Utah, features diamond-shaped copper shingle roofing, along with a variety of other hand-crafted copper products from Copper Exclusive and its founder Erno Ovari. Among the impressive array of products designed, hand-made and installed by Copper Exclusive were: diamond-shaped copper roof shingles, crown molding, soffit, fascia, gutters, snow hooks, finials and more. A total of 16,000 lbs. of hand-crafter copper products were used on the project.

Petroleum Traders Corporation, Fort Wayne, IN, is the largest pure wholesaler of gasoline and diesel fuels in the United States, delivering one billion gallons of petroleum products annually. A newly completed headquarters building reflects the company's success. Contemporary in design, its exterior features approximately 3,600 sq. ft. of Dri-Design rainscreen panels in a variety of custom modules. Fabricated from .080" aluminum, the panels are finished in Slate Gray and Charcoal Gray colors.

Grey Wolf Architecture of Denver, CO, had style, finesse and energy in mind when it specified approximately 5,000 sq. Ft. of Omega-Lite aluminum composite material wall panels for the exterior of the Greenwood Athletic Center in Greenwood, CO. Manufactured by Laminators Incorporated of Hatfield, PA, the Silver Metallic and Sierra Tan-colored exterior wall panels were installed by Sondrup Sheet Metal of Englewood, CO, using the manufacturer’s 1-piece, Tight-Fit moldings system. All reveal moldings were mitered at the 4-way intersections, providing a more polished and professional appearance.

Situated in a truly majestic setting, the new Animal Teaching and Research Center at Utah State University’s College of Agriculture is unprecedented in terms of its design as well as function. Located north of Wellsville, UT, the 25,000 sq. ft. facility integrates programmatic functions of a meat harvesting facility, animal reproduction laboratory and veterinary clinic with classrooms to provide a hands-on learning environment. The striking structure utilized Metl-Span insulated panels on both the roof and walls. The 4”-thick panels were finished in Terra Cotta and Cool Zinc Gray.