Featured Projects

Like many community ice arenas across the country, the New Hope Ice Arena in New Hope, Minnesota, needed some major renovations. The facility, built in the 1970s during a nationwide boom in the construction of community ice arenas, still had its original ice rink. As part of the renovations, the facility is now covered with a new standing seam roof system from The Garland Company Inc.

That it sits dockside is one of the things that makes Manhattan’s newest firehouse unusual. But what makes the 8,500 sq. ft. exceptional is its design. The iconic-looking structure is clad with 15,000 sq. ft. of RHEINZINK titanium zinc, manufactured by RHEINZINK America Inc.

Buncombe County Schools in Asheville, NC sought to relieve overcrowding in eight existing schools with the simultaneous construction of two new intermediate (grades 5-6) schools. The twin 107,000 sq. ft. facilities are identical in design and offer students a unique sense of discovery. Eblen Intermediate School utilizes a colorful variety of PAC-CLAD profiles from Petersen.

Three sisters and a veteran local chef have combined to create one of the most ambitious restaurant projects that Oklahoma has seen in years. Located in Norman, OK and known as Local, the 10,000 sq. ft. restaurant offers a farm-to-fork concept with a unique emphasis on family dining. The facility features curves created by products from Flex-Ability Concepts.

Situated on the shores of the Oklahoma River, the Devon Boathouse and Chesapeake Finish Line Tower – featuring architectural metal products from CENTRIA - provide world-class river sport facilities to the residents of Oklahoma City and the surrounding region. Over the past decade, the river has become a first-rate destination for competitive river sports, attracting Olympic hopefuls and river sport enthusiasts with its training facilities, race course and pristine waters.

Health Services Inc.’s new River Region Health Center in Montgomery, AL, presents two distinctly different faces to the public with a little help from Reynobond® Aluminum Composite Material (ACM) by Alcoa Architectural Products.

In April 2012, Igloo Erectors finished their work as fabricators and installers of the ALPOLIC aluminum composite material (ACM) panel system on the new Fort Saskatchewan Community Hospital in Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta, Canada. The new state-of-the-art facility replaces a 47-year-old structure approximately one-third the size. The ACM to which the new health care facility owes its good looks was manufactured by Mitsubishi Plastics Composites America of Chesapeake, VA, and supplied by VICWEST.

A metalcasting plant in Central Ohio was the site of a different kind of roof retrofit in late 2012 when TopHat Framing Systems’ new Quik-Clip system was employed to facilitate the installation of a new Metal Sales metal roof over an old corrugated transite deck.

DuPont has opened two new office buildings at its Chestnut Run facility in Wilmington, DE. More than 20 DuPont products are incorporated into the building’s structure, electronic systems and decor including the new DRI-DESIGN® Wall Panel System with DuPont™ Corian® EC exterior cladding.

An abandoned downtown golf course needed activity, and the Omaha suburb could stand an economic boost. In a short 15 months, with the partnership of Boyd Jones Construction, ICON Architectural Group and Ceco Building Systems, 170,000 square feet of glass and steel emerged. The beautiful state-of-the-art sports center is sure to draw crowds, commerce and entertainment for the citizens of Ralston and Omaha.

Although fighting crime is no easy task, it’s gotten a bit easier in the Mile High City since the construction of the new $28 million Denver Police Crime Laboratory. The building improves the department's capabilities in evidence collection and analysis. The building is also the testament to the capabilities of Douglass Colony Group. The Denver-based firm was responsible for the fabrication/installation of the Reynobond aluminum composite material panel system used on the building’s geometrically challenging exterior.

Though Super 1 Foods Stores are operated throughout Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas, the company’s new store in Carencro, LA represents a prototype design not previously seen. Developed by parent-company Brookshire Grocery Company of Tyler, TX, the new store features approximately 25,000 sq. ft. of Metl-Span® CF36 and CF42 insulated metal panels and 7.2 rib panels to create the desired exterior look.

The new McAllen, Texas, Public Library - which opened on the site of a vacant Walmart - was envisioned by city officials to include environmentally friendly features. From the perspective of Boultinghouse Simpson Gates Architects in McAllen, no design could be more environmentally conscious than adaptively reusing the former “big box” retail store. Alucobond® aluminum composite material by 3A Composites USA played a key role in the design.

The Dallas City Performance Hall is a 70,000 sq. ft., 750-seat professional theater located in the 68-acre renowned City of Dallas Arts District. The $40.5 million facility opened in September 2012 and is designed for theater, music, and dance performance companies. The building is topped with a dramatic roof that utilizes Kalzip Alupluszinc 65/400 continuous panels in varying lengths to form the natural layered wave.

Founded 125 years ago as the Home of Mercy, Chicago’s Swedish Covenant Hospital has come a long way since the days of iron beds and wooden washstands. The latest modernization, completed in March 2012 under the direction of BSA Life Structures of Indianapolis, IN, included efforts to trim the maintenance costs and enhance the aesthetics of the non-profit, independent hospital. It was to those ends that ALPOLIC aluminum composite material was incorporated into the exterior renovation design.

The Christopher S. Bond Learning Center is the newest addition to the William H. Darr Agricultural Center, located on the Springfield campus of Missouri State University. The Agricultural Center currently serves as a laboratory and field experience classroom for the study of livestock management, horticulture, animal science, wildlife conservation and other agricultural studies. CENTRIA products are featured on this project.

For more than 150 years, the Mansion Hill Inn’s ornate exterior has radiated stately elegance. Thanks to the restoration efforts of Banker Wire, the Madison, WI bed and breakfast’s ornamental ironwork will continue to charm guests and passersby for years to come.

In 2012, the Lafayette Regional Airport underwent a retrofit reroof and energy upgrade on their 114 Borman aircraft hangar building, with the help of retrofit framing from Roof Hugger topped with standing seam metal roofing from McElroy Metal. The Lafayette, LA project was unusual due to it being a reroof of an existing barreled metal roof; this required the new metal roof panels to be jobsite curved.

Located in the greater Vancouver, British Columbia area is a 2-½ acre equestrian estate that features a 9,000 sq. ft. main residence plus three out-buildings – totaling 6,000 sq. ft. – to accommodate seven horses. Among the materials featured in the construction of the buildings was RHEINZINK titanium zinc from RHEINZINK America Inc.

For 100 years, the Scottish Rite Cathedral in Chicago, Illinois had been located at the corner of Dearborn and Walton Streets, directly across from Washington Square Park. After a study of its membership, the fraternal organization associated with the Freemasons concluded that a majority of its members had migrated from the north shore to the western suburbs. Now there is a new facility, in a new location, topped by curved metal roofing from Petersen Aluminum.