Featured Projects

The renovation and expansion of the Apollo Career Center in Lima, Ohio, was necessary because of steady student body growth since the facility opened in the 1970s. Metl-Span insulated metal panels were an important component in updating the look of the facility and helped the project apply for LEED Gold status.

As part of a fast-track $88 million renovation that transforms the WakeMed North Hospital into a full-service hospital, the WakeMed Central Energy Plant in Raleigh, NC - featuring metal products from CENTRIA - serves an important role as the electric and HVAC heart of the healthcare campus.

The Holy Resurrection Chapel, located in The Gardens at Gethsemane in West Roxbury, MA, offers a place where Orthodox families can observe and practice the customs and traditions of the Orthodox community. Fittingly, the chapel's design incorporates RHEINZINK titanium zinc roofing from RHEINZINK America Inc., a material with a rich, historical tradition of its own.

The design of the new Writers Theatre in Glencoe, Ill., has caught the attention of media across the country.Created by renowned Chicago architect Jeanne Gang, FAIA, the 36,000 sq. ft., $28 million building, which includes metal PAC-CLAD products donated by Petersen, features a 250-seat main theatre that was purposefully designed to maintain Writers Theatre’s hallmark intimacy.

One step into his residential hangar and it’s easy to see that Harlan Rohner really values his leisure time. A quintessential man on the go, Rohner's Willmar, MN hangar includes snowmobiles, boats, ATVs and vehicles, along with his Kitfox experimental airplane and his Enstrom 280FX Shark helicopter. Access to this impressive array of toys is made easy with a custom hydraulic door from Schweiss Doors.

The building blocks of success are built on strong relationships, and so is Marvin Ramer’s new home. When the owner of Ramco Supply in Indiana set out to build a new home, he tapped into his network to make it happen. A veteran in the business, he knew he wanted his new home to don a metal roof. The system he chose features a long-lasting paint finish by Valspar

The Gatherings Shopping Center is a 14,004 sq. ft. multi-purpose building located in Port Arthur, TX, which features steel framing from Star Building Systems.

The office building at 2165 Spring St. in Long Beach, CA is ready for occupants with updated interior spaces and an attention-grabbing exterior. Dri-Design Tapered Series Panels were integral to creating a new image for the building and adding dimension to the exterior.

When you visit a grocery store, you expect to find extremely fresh food and quality products. When a major Texas grocery distribution center expansion was planned to accommodate growing business, Green Span Profiles was chosen to supply the insulated metal panels for the new facility located in Houston.

Construction of the new Rosenwald Recreation Center was a key component in the rebuilding of Council District B in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Insulated metal panels from Metl-Span provide a durable and attractive aesthetic for the neighborhood.

With a laundry list of amenities and 21 unique floor plans to choose from, the new 36 Park luxury apartment community in St. Louis Park, MN, is bound to attract a lot of interest from prospective tenants. Helping guarantee their first impression of the building is a good one, HOK incorporated Bright Silver-finished Omega-Lite ACM panels from Laminators Inc. on the exterior.

The Keystone Trust Company, a former bank building circa-1924, lends itself as the entrance to the Susquehanna Art Museum as part of this retrofit project in Harrisburg, PA. Metal and glass are the materials that make up the panel envelope of this grand museum, providing both function and beauty to the building’s façade. The new metal façade - using products from CENTRIA - is now a work of art itself.

Nestled in a semi-tropical paradise on an arm of the St. John’s River near Jacksonville, Fla., the new Westminster Woods on Julington Creek retirement community offers active seniors an ideal setting. The wooded 90-acre campus combines neighborhoods of detached villas, and garden and waterfront apartment homes featuring metal roofing from Petersen.

Whenever he has down time, pilot Larry Robbins can be found hanging out at home in LaFollette, TN where he has access to his airplanes in an air park subdivision that features its own landing strip. His hangar is fitted with a bifold liftstrap door from Schweiss Doors. It measures 44' x 14-1/2' and is equipped with auto latches and a remote opener.

Energy efficiency and appearance. Those two requirements were front and center in the planning of the Boston Seaport Self Storage facility in Beantown's Seaport District. And it was for those reasons the project's architect specified Optimo Smooth™ insulated metal wall panels by Kingspan Insulated Panels - North America.

When speakers at the groundbreaking ceremony include the sitting President of the United States, you know the building is important. And so it went when President Barack Obama stepped to the podium to commemorate the beginning of construction on the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) in Washington, DC. The building is special and so is the Valspar Corporation's multi-layer paint system that finishes the building's custom aluminum cladding.

Challenging police work can be even more cumbersome when operating from offices the size of closets and without the proper technology. An expanded Rock Hill Law Center changed these work conditions for the municipal staff in Rock Hill, SC. The space’s new look was completed with Dri-Design Embossed Panels, bridging the original structure to the addition.

As the first building designed under Loyola Marymount University ’s (LMU) Campus Master Plan, the Life Sciences Building sets the pace for modern, sustainable design at the university. Helping it succeed in that regard was perforated screen panels fabricated from RHEINZINK America Inc. zinc.

The growing congregation at the Church of the Harvest in Olathe, KS needed to greatly increase its worship capacity, and it was searching for a durable and attractive building. The combination of an engineered metal building from Butler Manufacturing with Tuff Wall panels from Metl-Span met the criteria and made everyone happy.

After more than five years of planning within an unusual public-private partnership, a spectacular new village administration building has been completed in Mundelein Village, Ill. Featuring metal products from Petersen, the two-story, 32,000 sq. ft. structure, which achieved LEED Gold status, replaces an aging building that served as the town’s headquarters since 1929.