Featured Projects

Blending the peace of mind that comes with student housing with the privacy of apartment living, Fuse gives Purdue University students in West Lafayette, IN the best of both worlds. Located across from Mackey Arena and the Neil Armstrong Engineering Building, the project includes on its exterior 11,000 sq. ft. of Omega Lite aluminum composite panels from Laminators Incorporated.

CMC Design Build of Quincy, Mass., has focused its efforts on serving the food and beverage industry, providing “the greatest levels of efficiency and effectiveness with every project.” Most of the time, CMC specifies metal wall panels from Metl-Span for those projects, including the new Kettle Cuisine plant in Lynn, Mass.

Schweiss Doors may not be in the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame but two of its hydraulic doors are on it. The utilization of the doors on such an acclaimed project speaks volumes for the reputation of the Fairfax, MN-based manufacturer and its ability to produce doors to match virtually any architectural design.

One of the newest attractions at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Cape Canaveral, FL is the $100 million Space Shuttle Atlantis exhibit. The exhibit enclosure, completed in 2013, was designed by PGAV Destinations and features panels on its exterior from VMZINC, the international brand name of rolled zinc products manufactured and sold by the Building Products Unit of the Umicore Group.

Operating in 10 Northeastern states, Cumberland Farms is one of the largest regional convenience store chains in the United States. The company is hoping to parlay its name recognition into success in the Florida market as well and to boosts its efforts has developed a new prototype store design that uses Kingspan KarrierPanel™ as one of its key construction components.

At the end of a dirt road in southern Vermont is a stunning timber and stone residence designed to resemble a 16th century Anglo-Norman manor house. The adjacent barn is styled to look as though it was from the same period too. It is topped with zinc, a roofing material with European roots dating back many centuries. The zinc roofing material supplier, RHEINZINK America Inc., has the same European lineage but now thrives in the United States as well.

The Port of Kalama’s Transportation Interpretive Center opened to the public in November 2014. The vision for the Kalama, Washington facility was to replicate a traditional waterfront warehouse of the 1800s, and that goal was achieved with the help of AEP Span’s architectural metal panels in two new specialty finishes, Burnt Rust and Weathered Zinc.

Athena Gun Club in Houston, TX is one of the largest facilities of its kind in the United States at 38,000 square feet. This premier shooting facility, which was originally an office/warehouse, used an assortment of MBCI's wall and soffit panels to achieve a contemporary face lift. PDG Architects worked with CYAD Construction to create the upscale space that the CEO and co-founder John Boyert envisioned.

The Clarks Logistic Center in Hanover, Pa., is a 451,000-square-foot distribution facility. Built with the company’s future in mind - and featuring metal products from CENTRIA - the project uses the latest in material handling technology. The center ships out an average of 100,000 pairs of shoes a day through the use of 4-1/2 miles of conveyor belts and an employee base of nearly 500. The building achieved LEED® Gold Certification for its high-performance building envelope, among other factors.

The Vancouver Aquarium’s $45-million renovation and expansion was unveiled in June 2014 in Vancouver, British Columbia’s Stanley Park. Designed to evoke the flow of water and the wonder of aquatic life, the new two-story 55,000 square-foot aquarium building features a curvilinear architectural design that is clad in color-changing aluminum composite material from 3A Composites USA, mimicking fish scales in hues ranging from green to pink.

Built into a 50-foot hillside, the new Mesa Community College Student Services Center in San Diego, California incorporates PPG coatings and glass to help seamlessly integrate both the local landscape and 16 different academic departments into its open, airy and energy-efficient 85,000-square-foot space. Duranar® fluoropolymer coatings and Solarban® solar control low-e glass manufactured by PPG are vital to the center’s performance, functionality and contemporary design.

How do you handle a monster job? You call in your own monster: “Archzilla” from McElroy Metal. Archzilla is a roll former attached to a scissors lift that elevates the roll former to the eaves. The panels – more than 115 feet long on the Waxahachie Civic Center – run off the machine at the eaves, where installers are ready to carry them over the peak to the opposite roof edge. Panels that long require 15-20 workers to safely handle and place the new roofing, even in the best conditions.

Architect Enrique Norten calls Rutgers Business School's new 100 Rock building both a landmark and a gateway. The $85 million structure, located on Rutgers University - New Brunswick's Livingston campus in Piscataway, NJ, has an iconic presence and was designed in such a way as to straddle the campus' main entry road. Lending to the unique building's visual interest is a multi-faceted rainscreen metal cladding, fabricated by Metalwërks®, a division of Metal Sales & Service, Kennett Square, PA.

Rail Delivery Services in Fontana, California now has a brand new, custom designed facility, built by Lord Constructors Inc., an American Buildings Company (ABC) Authorized Builder. The facility is designed to handle assembly, distribution, transloading and load securement for Rail Delivery Services’ clients.

The new International Magnet School for Global Citizenship – featuring metal roofing from Petersen Aluminum - has opened in South Windsor, Conn. As part of the Capitol Region Education Council, the school will foster the education and development of 530 students from pre-K through fifth grade. CREC is a non-profit, regional educational organization serving 35 public school districts in the greater Hartford, Conn., area.

Allied Steel Buildings was selected by Chronus Construction to provide a metal warehouse and showroom in Orlando, Florida for RIP-IT, a supplier sporting goods. Allied was selected by Chronus Construction to provide a 120’ x 160’ x 42’ metal warehouse and showroom for the growing company.

Municipal maintenance buildings are typically designed with one thing in mind—function. And while it’s true the newly completed Ontario Operations Centre in Newmarket, Ontario, Canada, is a functional success, the building’s unique requirements dictated it be more than just a workshop or storage building. It needed to look good too. And by incorporating bifold liftstrap doors from Fairfax, MN-based Schweiss Doors, it does.

The construction of a new 862,000 sq. ft. cold-storage warehouse and distribution center in Phoenix gives WinCo Foods a more economically favorable way to serve its customers in Arizona, southern California and southern Nevada. That it is the largest food distribution center in the state is something for the Boise, ID-based grocery chain to be proud of. But it is also a feather in the cap of Kingspan Insulated Panels, maker of the more than 500,000 sq. ft. of insulated metal panels used for the mammoth building’s construction.

Great Falls Elementary School is among a select number of schools in Maine to be heated and cooled exclusively with a geothermal system. That says something not only about the school’s design, but also about those making project decisions. That those same people saw fit to top the energy-efficient school with standing seam roofing from Englert Inc. is equally impressive. It is a testament not only to the reputation of metal roofing in general, but also for the products of Perth Amboy, NJ-based Englert in particular.

The new 107,000 sq. ft. Combined Office Tower (COT) at Edmonton International Airport adds dramatic impact to the Edmonton arrival and departure experience. Used to create the building’s undulating ribbon-like exterior wrap were Interlocking Flat Lock Shingles from RHEINZINK. The titanium zinc cladding is available in the United States from RHEINZINK America Inc.