Featured Projects

As the most public building at the Williams Selyem Winery, the look of the winery’s administration building takes on added importance. To ensure the structure projected the desired image, the building’s designer, Alex Ceppi of D.arc Group in New York, utilized iconic elements of winemaking as a generator of form and meaning. Those elements were rendered in wood and zinc from RHEINZINK.

Char-Broil, a division of W.C. Bradley Co., is one of the oldest and most respected outdoor gas-cooking brands. Located in Columbus, GA, Char-Broil manufactures out of a large pre-engineered metal building complex that has undergone many expansions. When a portion of the roof was retrofitted with new metal panels in 2012, Roof Hugger sub-framing played a key role in the project.

The newly completed Hamburg Casino in Hamburg, NY is one of the highlights of the enormous Erie County Fairgrounds. In addition to the casino, the 275,000-acre complex includes the Buffalo Raceway horse track, an exposition hall, four parks, campgrounds and an event center. Featured on the exterior of both the two-story, 66,000 sq. ft. casino and the attached expo center are insulated metal wall and roof panels from Metl-Span.

The IBI Group fell in love with the detail and quality of wire mesh while working on a project for one of its clients. As a result of that experience, the company chose to utilize Banker Wire woven mesh in the renovation of its new office space in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

The newest landmark on the Charlotte skyline, Duke Energy Center, is distinguished from its neighbors by a sculptural roofline with a sharply slanted, handle-shaped bridge at the crown, and faceted, truncated corners on the tower. The building’s complex geometry prompted the metal panel installer to develop an unconventional installation solution for the Reynobond Aluminum Composite Material wall panels. Reynobond is a product of Alcoa Architectural Products.

A former call center in Buffalo, NY is now a charter school. Trautman Associates of Buffalo developed the plan for converting the 47,000 sq. ft. building into a contemporary, invigorating environment for learning and used Omega-Lite ACM panels from Laminators Inc. to achieve its design objectives.

With the backing of the world’s largest coffeehouse chain behind it, no efforts were spared to ensure the Washington, DC Union Station Starbucks location was inviting. But given the high traffic volume, its finishes also had to be durable. Seeking a reliable and aesthetically pleasing finish for both the interior and exterior walls, the in-house designers at Starbucks employed ALPOLIC ACM panels for a much-desired clean and modern look.

Mathews Harley-Davidson has been located in Fresno, California since 1961, passing the sales and service tradition of the iconic motorcycles through generations of the family. The plan is to continue that tradition into the future with the recent construction of a new 11,615 sq. ft. showroom facility – utilizing metal products from Metallic Building Company - which was completed in July 2012.

The former Dell Customer Service and Training Centre in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, is now the Servus Credit Union Corporate Headquarters. In renovating the building for the new owner/occupant, Manasc Isaac Architects addressed inherent thermal performance issues while modernizing the building inside and out. Products picked to cover the original brick and precast exterior elevations included both smooth and ribbed metal wall systems from VICWEST.

The original roof on the Luling High School, part of the Luling Independent School District of Texas, was described as having been given short shrift during the building’s original construction in 1987. Things came to a head in 2008, during an especially heavy rainfall. For a solution, an R-Mer® Lite II insulated steel roofing system from The Garland Company, Inc. was chosen.

Although it was designed with low-income persons in mind, the new Faimount Avenue Townhomes development in North Chattanooga, Tennessee includes some first-class construction features. The development has 18 units, each topped with Englert metal roof systems and crystalline solar panels capable of generating up to 10% of the per-unit electricity needs. The panels are secured to all south-facing metal roof surfaces using S-5-PV clamps from S-5!.

Although the major addition to the Iowa Western Community College Performing Arts Center in Council Bluffs, IA was planned when the original facility was built in 2000, it was still 12 years before the 11,000 sq. ft. addition was finally constructed. Containing classrooms in support of the Center's educational component, the addition's exterior is clad with metal, including 5,200 sq. ft. of 14-gauge DRI-DESIGN Weathering Steel wall panels.

The Shelburne Green Business Park in Shelburne, VT, offers 40,000 sq. ft. of Class A office space in a setting reminiscent of an old New England town. And while its earliest buildings are more than half a century old, the development as a whole looks brand new thanks to a just-completed renovation that saw original wall claddings replaced with new insulated metal panel systems from Lewisville, TX-based Metl-Span.

The newest addition to the National World War II Museum in New Orleans, Louisiana includes a 4-D Theater, performance hall, executive offices, a retail store and a restaurant. This is the first of a multi-phase expansion to take place over several years, and it features metal wall panels from CENTRIA. The goal of this phase is to provide a forum to preserve the stories of WWII veterans and showcase their accomplishments to an international audience.

When design of the VanDusen Botanical Garden Visitor Centre was awarded to Perkins+Will Canada, architects were challenged to create a building that would increase visibility and attract more visitors to the 54-acre internationally recognized garden in downtown Vancouver, British Columbia, while meeting the highest goals in sustainable building design. The finished project features 12,000 sq. ft. of Alucobond® naturAL material in the custom plain mill finish.

With regard to human health, zinc is an essential trace element. With regard to architectural design and construction, it also provides many benefits. Case in point is the new Wellness Center at the University of South Dakota in Vermillion. Thanks in part to the use of zinc on its origami-like roof form, the 61,000 sq. ft. building has the form to match its function. The zinc material was by RHEINZINK and the fabrication of the project’s double-lock standing seam roof panels was by Firestone Metal Products of Anoka, MN.

Known since its opening in 2001 as Invesco Field at Mile High, the home stadium of the National Football League’s Denver Broncos underwent a name change in 2011. Sports Authority, a nationally known sports equipment retailer, purchased the naming rights for $25 million and the stadium was subsequently renamed Sports Authority Field at Mile High. It was as part of the stadium’s rebranding that ACM wall panels from Laminators Inc. were installed at various points around the facility’s exterior.

Designed, fabricated, and installed by a student team at Virginia Tech, the Masonic Amphitheater in Clifton Forge, VA, provides a public park and performance space for the rural Appalachian community. Among the products used for the structure’s construction were ALPOLIC composite panels from Mitsubishi Plastics Composites America.

The new Cal Poly University Recreation Center in San Luis Obispo, CA has a welcoming design brought to life with Kalzip metal roofing. The 165,700 sq. ft. facility expands recreational and sports opportunities for students and faculty at California Polytechnic State University as well as members of the surrounding community.

Who thought inspiration could come in the form of a steel building? Kenneth Joyner did. When the CEO of J&J Contractors was hired to finish a long-range growth plan for NorthPark Church in Meridian, Miss., he turned to Ceco Building Systems. The end product was a stunning worship facility that not only serves the congregation but has already struck a chord with visitors.