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The LUMCON Blue Works innovation hub in Houma, Louisiana is noteworthy for its ark-like design and the blue-hued aluminum panels that wrap its visually elevated front side. Beneath those cladding panels is Kingspan's innovative KarrierPanel insulated metal backer panel system, offering both energy efficiency and speed of installation.

One of the recent draws to North Carolina's Research Triangle is capitalizing on architecture from the area’s history. The Raleigh Iron Works, a remake of an old iron foundry district, opened in 2023 to resounding success. Its design, not surprisingly, leans heavily on its past, making ample use of architectural metal roof and wall panels from Petersen to emphasize its industrial history.

The IBM Bromont plant in Bromont, QC, Canada, opened in 1972. Over 50 years later, the facility continues to be a leader in innovation, technology and continuous improvement. In 2015, IBM Bromont installed 3,000 sq. ft. of InSpire solar air heating metal wall panels - manufactured by ATAS International Inc. - and a new 2,000 sq. ft. InSpire® wall was installed in October 2023.

McCown Gordon Construction, a general contractor in Kansas City, MO, recently moved out of a 1919 downtown building that it had called home since it renovated the space in 2005. The company’s new headquarters is a renovated Catholic Charities structure that had been vacant. The design transformed the building into an open and modern headquarters with a façade to match, enhanced by Anodized Aluminum Dri-Design wall panels.

The motivation behind DIY projects is usually, if not always, to save enough money to make the work worthwhile. In the case of one Michigan couple's project, involving zinc panels fabricated by Sheet Metal Supply, the satisfaction of a puzzle solved and a job done well were equally at play.

Three families had a dream and that was to design and construct an athletic and community center in Halfmoon, N.Y. The multi-sport facility was created to simply elevate athletes. Like every project, time and money were considerations when choosing building materials. Ultimately, insulated metal panels (IMPs) from Metl-Span helped make their vision a reality.

The Valley Club in Hailey, Idaho, established in 1996, has evolved into “an extraordinary haven for those seeking golfing excellence and unparalleled lifestyle amenities.” To maintain that status and develop a solution for a failing wood shake roofing system, the club chose to install metal roofing from the Natural FX Coatings palette offered by The Bryer Company.

Smith Brothers Farms – a Northwest regional food supplier – experienced booming growth during the COVID-19 pandemic when thousands of consumers were using grocery delivery services. Four years later, sales continue to rise for the fourth-generation food supplier and the company is growing its physical footprint. Insulated metal panels chosen for a new facility in Federal Way, WA are from Kingspan Insulated Metal Panels North America.

Absolute Construction of Plano, Texas, was called to a home in Frisco to put together an estimate for a customer looking to replace a storm-damaged concrete tile roof. Though the original intention was to stay with the same type of roof, an incident involving an unwanted "guest" prompted the homeowners to switch to metal instead. The home's new standing seam roof was formed at the jobsite from coil supplied by McElroy Metal.

The Citation jet, named Cloudkisser II, is as clean and slick as the new 100-foot by 100-foot hangar where it resides at the Southern Wisconsin Regional Airport in Janesville, Wis. Among the hangar's many impressive features is its 80' x 22' liftstrap/autolatch bifold door from Schweiss Doors. The door is rated for 115 mph.

The Sands Family YMCA is a 75,000 square-foot state-of-the-art multi-use facility that features an athletic facility, medical care facility and early learning center. CJS Architects designed the facility to to take the place of a 100-year-old YMCA in Canandaigua, New York. The replacement facility’s modern look was achieved with insulated metal panels from Kingspan.

Seven months after the devastation of Hurricane Otis to the resort city of Acapulco on the Pacific Coast of Mexico, this category 5 hurricane provided lessons for locals and businesses. It also showcased another benefit associated with the use of attachment products by S-5! for rooftop photovoltaic assemblies.

The 2023 Pioneer League baseball season opened with the Glacier Range Riders from Kalispell, Mont., at home at the renamed Glacier Bank Park. Sited in Montana’s Flathead County, just outside Glacier National Park, it features all the amenities fans could want as well as striking mountain views – and with a design that blends into its surroundings. Key in the design of the new park are several products from Petersen's PAC-CLAD lineup.

After completion in August of 2022, Thirty75 Tech in California’s Santa Clara Valley has been racking up accolades and major architectural awards for its design and animated façade. Since more than half of the building’s envelope has southern and western solar exposure, a sunshade system - with vertical louvers that are strategically rotated to fixed angles - was devised, featuring coatings from PPG.

JHC Commercial, LLC of Portland, Oregon was awarded the American Buildings 2024 Building of the Year Excellence in Design Award for the NW Line JATC project. This state-of-the-art facility in Battle Ground, WA, serves as headquarters of the Northwest Line Joint Apprenticeship Training Committee and a training center for aspiring linemen—skilled professionals who specialize in high-voltage power lines.

The Young Family Athletic Center in Norman, OK checks all the boxes for what a modern, fully equipped athletic facility should be. And the building's appearance reflects that. Featured on its exterior are insulated metal panels from Kingspan Insulated Panels.

Effective insulation is paramount when it comes to the storage of dairy products, as maintaining precise temperature and humidity levels is essential. It’s for these reasons that insulated metal panels (IMPs), with their advanced insulation properties and effectiveness as a highly efficient thermal barrier, are popular choices for food storage buildings, and why IMPs from Norbec were utilized for the new Ninth Avenue Foods facility in Columbus, IN.

Brian Lamb has grown corn, soybeans and sweetcorn on 2,000 acres of Renville County, MN, farmland since 1981. He feels fortunate to have what he called a “world class” door manufacturer near his backyard and stresses the importance of doing business locally with an experienced builder to put up his machine shed and farm shop. Lamb was referring to Schweiss Doors and Country Wide Lumber, both of which have Hector, MN, addresses.

The new Smith Elementary School replaced an aging 50-year-old facility that no longer met modern standards. Its architects developed a plan that will serve the community for decades to come, with a metal-paneled exterior that certainly looks toward the future. PAC-CLAD panels from Petersen play a key role in the design of the Travis County, Texas project.

Southwestern College in Chula Vista, CA, has a new Performing Arts Center. With the design plan by Tucker Sadler Architects of San Diego, the space encourages the development of students’ talents while connecting to the community. Dri-Design wall panels wrap portions of the building’s curtainwall, and Dri-Design Perforated Imaging panels were used to create the sun glyph.