Featured Projects

The National Security Space Institute (NSSI), located at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, Colorado, was recently relocated to the base to accommodate the rise in class sizes and demand for new courses. Products from CENTRIA were used in the construction of the new facility that is used for training and education.

The Crossroads School in Norfolk, Virginia is the district’s first LEED-certified educational facility. The original structure was built in 1945 and was recently replaced with a new, 145,000-square-foot campus. The K-8 facility won one of only three Gold Design Awards presented by the 2012 Virginia School Boards Association at the Exhibition of School Architecture. Part of the project’s design success is owed to the ALPOLIC ACM featured on its exterior.

Located on the school’s Northfield, MN campus, the Weitz Center for Creativity encourages creativity not only in the arts but across Carleton College’s entire curriculum. The LEED Gold project was created by renovating and expanding a former middle school, with newly constructed elements clad in DRI-DESIGN metal panels from Holland, MI-based Dri-Design.

In the 1990’s, FDNY’s EMS stations were designed according to a prototype that relied heavily on masonry for its overall aesthetics. In 2006 however, New York City implemented a new design protocol for city-owned projects, placing a stronger emphasis on unique architectural character. The recently completed EMS Station 27 in the Bronx reflects that new direction. Utilized for its design was 6,300 sq. ft. of RHEINZINK architectural titanium zinc.

The 65,000-square-foot atrium at The Children’s Hospital at Oklahoma University Medical Center, Oklahoma City, is designed to serve as a hub for the University’s sprawling Health Center campus. The six-story atrium’s main feature is a roof inspired by floating kite ribbons. The roof uses approximately 20,000 square feet of Kalzip 65/400 with an AluPlusPatina finish.

After literally two decades in the planning, the new Iowa City Fire Station #4 is complete and providing improved service to the northeast section of Iowa City, Iowa. Located on a high-visibility site, the LEED Gold facility - featuring roof, wall and soffit panels from Petersen Aluminum - establishes a prominent visual presence for the fire department in the center of the service area.

The 34,422 sq. ft. administration building for Baker Hughes’ pumping services in Shreveport, LA utilized Varco Pruden Buildings’ Deck Frame framing for its construction, accompanied by pre-cast wall panels. This system allowed for large glass areas and a dramatic canopied entry structure.

When the CDCR bid out the new California Health Care Facility inmate hospital in Stockton, scheduling was seen as one of the keys to the project’s success, with logistics and accessibility being major challenges as well. It was with those things in mind that insulated standing seam panels from All Weather Insulated Panels were proposed in lieu of traditional metal roofing for nearly two-thirds of the planned 1.2 million square feet of new construction.

Metal Sales Manufacturing Corporation provided more than 67,000 total square feet of metal wall and roof panels for the Redding School of the Arts in Redding, CA, giving the facility a smart and modern look worthy of its high-profile, high performance mission.

When the sun beats down on the DLA's new 1.7 million square foot warehouse in East Cumberland, PA, Solarwall® solar thermal collecting wall panels from Conserval Engineering of Toronto Ontario, Canada go to work. Installed on portions of the massive warehouse's east and south walls, the panels heat the warehouse interior, lowering heating costs by an estimated $350,000 a year.

Metal construction products are seldom mentioned in the same sentence as New York City, but perhaps the successful restoration of an historic Manhattan building will change that. On the Corbin Building restoration, which was undertaken as part of a larger municipal project, metal from Englert Inc. of Perth Amboy, NJ was fashioned into terra-cotta-style tiles to top a pair of towers that were original to the Corbin Building’s design but had been removed many years ago.

In Oklahoma City, OK a severe hail storm caused extensive damage to the metal cladding of the Chesapeake Energy building. Rather than tearing the old cladding off and replacing it, the old panel system was left in place and a new cladding installed right over the top. Comprising the new cladding was ALPOLIC aluminum composite material from Mitsubishi Plastics Composites America Inc.

Lincoln Elementary School serves as a Performing Arts Magnet School in the Louisville, Kentucky area. The first of its kind in the Jefferson County School District, Lincoln integrates core academic curriculum with dance, music and drama. An expansion – featuring architectural metal products from CENTRIA - provides new, state-of-art technology that will enable students and teachers to maximize their educational experience.

The City of St. Catharines Carlisle Street Parking Facility earned the 2012 Niagara Community Design Award for Architecture, and woven wire mesh from W.S. Tyler was one of the key design elements incorporated into the structure.

Because of its proximity to a residential area, the architectural design of the new Maple Grove (MN) Public Works Facility includes a façade that complements the surrounding neighborhood. Key to the building's pleasing exterior are 12,000 sq. ft. of DRI-DESIGN rainscreen metal wall panels. They were formed from .080"-thick aluminum with a black anodized finish.

Designed by the architectural firm Grupo ARKHOS, the Chihuahua’s Businessmen Foundation (FECHAC) Regional Office in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico, embodies FECHAC’s core values of giving, common good, solidarity and subsidiarity through four 40-foot-tall, 13-foot-wide volumes on the primary façade, clad in tessellated Reynobond Aluminum Composite Material (ACM).

Described as “a work of art”, the new McCallum Arts Center building in Austin, TX presents a dramatic environment in which students from across the Austin Independent School District pursue an accelerated, comprehensive arts curriculum offered by the McCallum Fine Arts Academy. Featured prominently on the facility are metal panels by Petersen Aluminum.

The historic Lyric Opera House in Baltimore was originally constructed in 1895 as a concert hall with a traditional gable roof. Now, after a four-phase renovation and major expansion, The Lyric has become the city’s premier venue for opera and traveling Broadway shows. Playing a role in that transformation was RHEINZINK titanium-zinc cladding.

Seals and sea lions in captivity tend to have more eye problems than other zoo animals, with research suggesting it is related to prolonged exposure to sunlight and the amount of light that reflects off the surface of the pools in their habitats. With this in mind, as part of a complete renovation of the sea lion exhibit at the Blank Park Zoo in Des Moines, Iowa, two large canopies were constructed, using metal panels from The Garland Company, Inc.

Located on a 12.7-acre site in Farmingdale, NY is the new four-story, 200,000 sq. ft. Armed Forces Reserve Center. Designed for joint use by the Army National Guard, Army Reserve, Marine Corp Reserve, and Navy Reserve, the AFRC is authorized to accommodate 1,775 enlisted personnel and 155 officers. Featured on its exterior is approximately 75,000 sq. ft. of fire-rated ALPOLIC aluminum composite material from Mitsubishi Plastics Composites America Inc.