Featured Projects

The Centre for Youth Excellence in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, has an intriguing design. Its main feature is a Kalzip copper colored curved roof that arches its way down the wall to the busy street below. Built in 2011 and operated by Youth for Christ, the 53,000-square-foot facility offers recreational and support activities for all teenagers, many of whom are disadvantaged.

There were plenty of challenges associated with the installation of metal roofing on one of the newest homes in Belgrade Lakes, ME, but nothing the project’s accomplished metal roofing fabricator/installer couldn’t handle. C.O. Beck & Sons of Waterville, ME, installed the roofing on the 6,000 sq. ft. home, like so many of the homes in the exclusive resort area. And as is routinely the case with Beck & Sons’ projects, the contractor’s roofing of choice was Englert job-site rollformed metal.

The largest planned net zero energy community in the United States features more than 40,000 total linear feet of metal wall, roof and canopy panels from Metal Sales Manufacturing Corporation. The University of California, Davis West Village community comprises 205 acres with 662 apartments, 343 single-family homes, and commercial and recreational facilities.

The construction of the new Zion Crossroads Health Clinic in Zion Crossroads, VA was completed in May 2012. The two-phased process involved the construction of a core building, two-story ambulatory healthcare shell, general practice clinic, radiology/imaging area and an outpatient surgery center. The facility’s design strikes a balance between traditional and contemporary, with ALPOLIC aluminum composite material from Mitsubishi Plastics Composites America Inc. helping to convey the latter.

Life Church is an evangelical church with 15 locations throughout five states. An integral part of the interior design of each location is the “wave wall” which adds color and vibrancy to the community areas. Approximately 470 linear feet of Flex-C Arch by Flex-Ability Concepts was used for the latest installation at the Life Church in Oklahoma City, OK.

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.