Featured Projects

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.

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.