Featured Projects

VersaTube® Building Systems provided a temporary covered walkway system for use during major construction and facility improvements underway in 2008 at the Gerald R. Ford International Airport in Grand Rapids, Mich. The system layout consisted of a primary curbside 20-foot wide by 660-foot long walkway canopy and a series of connecting “tunnels” ranging from 160 feet to 300 feet in length. The design allowed for quick disassembly and relocation of a connecting “tunnel” along the primary walkway to correspond with the area of the terminal building under construction at the time.

The Bay Area Fellowship Church in Corpus Christi, TX, is considered one of the fastest growing churches in the United States. To continue its growth, the progressive, media-driven church has undertaken a two-phased construction project on a 90-acre site. The recently completed Phase 1 provides 92,000 sq. ft. of worship and educational space within a building that's contemporary in design. Featured on its exterior is nearly 37,000 sq. ft. of Metl-Span CF Architectural Wall Panels.

Religious facilities are a specialty of Virginia Beach, VA's Barnes Design Group. When it was commissioned to design a massive addition for the Calvary Revival Church in Norfolk, VA, the firm used materials of permanence to craft a decidedly contemporary look. Among the products and materials it relied on to achieve its design goals were approximately 16,000 sq. ft. of Envelope 2000® rout and return wall panels from Citadel Architectural Products. Provided in Silver Metallic, Matte Black and Princely Purple colors, the panels highlight newly created entrances and entryway design features.

The 88,500 sq. ft. second floor of the Cecil County Administration Building utilized Star Building Systems’ StarASR Roof System in Evergreen color. Completed in November 2007, this county administration building in Elkton, MD, used a combination of a pre-engineered metal building and conventional construction. The structure has a conventional first floor, and sitting atop the first floor is a pre-engineered Star Building.

Designed by Murphy Jahn Architects of the United States and completed in the fall of 2006, the new world headquarters of Merck Serono in Geneva, Switzerland is comprised of a sprawling six-story building nestled among and integrating a trio of smaller historically significant industrial structures. As a means of establishing a visual relationship between the 463,000 sq. ft. of new construction and the existing buildings—in a manner that complied with preservation orders protecting the latter—the architect topped both the new building and the renovated structures with 90,000 sq. ft. of Kalzip™ 65/500 standing seam aluminum roofing from Corus Building Systems.

A LandscapeInteriors™ metal fabric application from Cambridge Architectural adds a high-end aesthetic to the interior of Comix, a newly-designed comedy club in New York City’s fashionable Meatpacking District. StudioRED specified metal fabric in Cambridge’s modified Shade pattern for the LandscapeInteriors system. The mesh features flexible, open weaves that resemble chain mail and can be installed as window treatments, virtual space dividers or as dynamic design elements with track hardware. A combined 194 sq. ft. of woven metal mesh was used for this project.

Omega-Lite® aluminum composite material wall panels add to the modern look of a recently completed apartment building in Brooklyn, NY. Michael Muroff Architects of New York City designed the 219 Withers Street structure, which features on its exterior approximately 2,000 sq. ft. of the panels. They were fabricated at the job site and installed by Imperial Glass Works using Laminators' proprietary Clip & Caulk attachment system.

The design and construction of the $5.5 million Chicago Harbor Lock Control House marks the first phase of renovation for the 70-year-old lock. To design the new building, which is located on Lake Michigan at the mouth of the Chicago River, the US Army Corps of Engineers commissioned CTE AECOM. The firm's nautically inspired theme for the new structure called for wrapping the exterior with 9,000 sq. ft. of Reynobond® ZCM from Alcoa Architectural Products. Shaffner Heaney Associates of South Bend, IN, engineered and fabricated the panels needed for the challenging project, while BBC, located in Bensonville, IL, handled the installation.

The ex-Navy Seal and founder of BLACKHAWK! Products Group, a leading U.S. manufacturer of tactical, military and law enforcement equipment, challenged the architect to create a look for his new headquarters building that would “reflect the strength and ruggedness of our products.” The design for the 65,000 sq. ft. facility and winner of a 2008 AIA Award of Design Excellence certainly accomplished the mission. Among the product featured on the exterior of the $7.5 million, Norfolk, VA-project were 4,800 sq. ft. of Citadel Envelope 2000® Rainscreen System panels, finished in Bone White and Natural Copper.

The University Of Minnesota Equine Center in St. Paul, MN, is a 60,000 sq. ft. equine research facility that utilized Rigid Frame, Continuous Beam and Unibeam framing systems by VP Buildings. Metal roofing is VP’s SLR architectural/structural standing seam profile with a Colonial Red color in a Cool Roof coating formulation. The metal wall panels are VP’s TextureClad profile in a Sand color.

An RS4 ACM rainscreen cladding system from Armetco Systems Inc. of Justin, TX, provided the refined look and met the stringent performance requirements for the exterior of the recently completed JPS Health Network building in Fort Worth, TX. HKS Inc. of Dallas, TX, designed the 40,000 sq. ft. structure. Armetco fabricated the rainscreen panels from Alucobond aluminum composite material with a Bone White paint finish. Alucobond is a product of Alcan Composites USA Inc., Mooresville, NC.

Completed in May 2007, the Glasgow Fire Station in Newark DE, totals almost 8,000 square feet. The builder chose to use Star Building System’s StarShield standing seam roof system and StarTherm wall system, in addition to Star’s steel framing. This project was a perfect fit for Star’s pre-engineered metal building due to clear span spaces required. A pre-engineered building was also chosen for its economic appeal.

DeGraff Development Inc. of Oakdale, California, recently completed the beautiful Family Lodge at Dodge Ridge, near Pinecrest, California. The 16,000 sq. ft. architecturally striking project used a roofing system of 24 gauge Span Lok panels in Weathered Copper color from AEP Span. The Swenson Snap Table® 6000 by Swenson Shear was used onsite for notching and shearing the panels for hemming. Located in the Dodge Ridge Wintersports Area, a family owned and operated ski area in the Sierras, the project was completed just in time for the start of the 2008 winter ski season.

The 58,000 sq. ft. expansion of the East Grand Rapids (MI) Community Center involved the complete reconstruction of the existing city hall and library facilities. Two buildings were combined into one large picturesque facility located on scenic Reeds Lake. The $9.4 million, LEED Certified facility received the 2007 Outstanding Facility Design Award from the Michigan Recreation & Park Association. Approximately 8,000 sq. ft. of Petersen Aluminum’s Tite-Loc Plus Panels finished in Zinc and Terra Cotta were utilized.

The giant new Labatt Food Service distribution center in Houston, TX utilizes approximately 140,000 sq. ft. of Metl-Span insulated panels in three different panel types. The $14 million project features 148,000 sq. ft. of space including a two-story office and storage areas for dry goods, perishables and frozen foods on a 21 acre site. Design/build services were provided by TEAM Group, Ltd., Euless, TX, specialists in the construction of food facilities.

King’s Daughters Medical Specialties - Portsmouth is a unique addition to the Portsmouth, Ohio, community. It brings a variety of medical specialists to downtown Portsmouth, with an emphasis on the region’s number one health problem: heart and vascular disease. There are three physician offices in the building: one for family care, and two others dedicated to cardiology. The project features CENTRIA’s Formawall® Graphix Series™. Graphix Series makes multi-panel designs become real within a single wall panel that is made to look like 12 smaller panels.

A new storage hangar owned by Bohemian Real Estate II LLC, is situated at the Fort Collins/Loveland Airport in Loveland, CO. The 32,685 sq. ft. facility used a Rigid Frame metal building system by VP Buildings. In addition to serving as an aircraft storage hangar, the facility includes support shops and office space. The 19,500 sq. ft. hangar is surrounded on two sides with the shop/covered parking, while a third side—the main entry facade—contains the office areas and is faced with timber trusses, timber columns and stone to be consistent with the local architectural influences.

The new Downstream Casino Resort, located in northeast Oklahoma, offers 70,000 sq. ft. of casino floor space plus a 12-story hotel with all of the amenities of Las Vegas. An integral component of the interior theming of the casino, owned by the Quapaw Tribe of Oklahoma, is the use of radiuses and curves to reflect the history of the tribe’s movement down the Ohio River to the Mississippi River and eventually west to Oklahoma. Designed by JCJ Architecture, Hartford, CT, the Downstream Casino project utilized more than 10,000 feet of Flex-C Angle® and nearly 9,000 feet of Flex-C Trac®.

Measuring 18,861 square feet, the Boys & Girls Club Henderson Unit facility has enough room for gymnasiums, game rooms, classrooms and computer rooms. Located in Springfield, MO, the building utilized Star Building Systems’ StarShield Roof System, while structural systems included SMS, SRLO and SSB framing. This structure utilized a combination of brick, stone, glass and Star panels on the exterior to blend in with the surrounding area.

Streaming sunlight and the therapeutic sounds of flowing water add to the ambiance of healing instilled in the design for the new Ambulatory Clinic at the campus of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. The opening of the clinic in March 2007 marked the completion of the first phase of the University's mission to replace its aging hospital and clinical buildings with new, state-of-the-art facilities. Reflecting the modern nature of the medicine practiced within, the exterior of the new structure makes abundant use of glass and Alcoa Architectural Products' Reynobond® aluminum composite material wall panels.