Featured Projects

In January 2012, the 1,200 students of Virginia Beach’s Great Neck Middle came back from winter break to receive one last gift – a new school. Completed in December 2011, the over $35 million dollar project consists of a three-story building employing sustainable materials, the newest technologies, and an aesthetically appealing structural design. Among the materials used to give the building its modern look are ALPOLIC ACM aluminum composite wall panels from Mitsubishi Plastics Composites America.

The shingled roof of the Community United Methodist Church in Circleville, Ohio had been leaking in multiple areas for years, despite repeated temporary repair attempts. The congregation, frustrated with the constant leaking, rallied together to raise money for a more permanent solution which included standing seam metal from The Garland Company, Inc.

The Western Mental Health Institute is a 150-bed facility, comprised of six 25-bed units, using a “treatment mall” setup where patients spend most of their time each day in a collaborative classroom atmosphere. Here, they receive counseling, medication management, case management and other psychiatric inpatient services without unnecessary transportation to multiple facilities. The new building – featuring metal products by CENTRIA - is located adjacent to its historical predecessor in Bolivar, TN.

A new three-building project for the City of Tucson Water Department provides office and warehouse space, along with a shop facility. Totaling 21,127 sq. ft., the buildings feature metal systems from Star Building Systems. The project earned LEED Silver Certification.

The newest addition to the University of Calgary campus in Calgary, Alberta, Canada is the Taylor Family Digital Library. It houses over 9 million assets including 32,000 print monographs, over 1 million maps and aerial photographs, and 847,461 architectural drawings, amongst its wealth of resources. The innovative and sustainable educational center is incomparable to any other facility in North America and competes on a global scale in its support of research and learning. The building’s design incorporates a stainless steel mesh façade by Cambridge Architectural of Cambridge, MD.

The renovation and expansion of the Akron City Hospital Emergency Department adds 85,000 sq. ft. of space with 44 beds and 10 triage rooms. Akron City Hospital, a member of Summa Health System, is a Level 1 Trauma Center. Approximately 15,000 linear feet of 3 5/8”, 20 gauge Flex-C Trac and 1,200 linear feet of 20 gauge Flex-C Angle were used to frame prominent radiuses and soffits for the Akron, OH project.

Davie West is a joint-use facility shared by Florida Atlantic University (FAU) and the University of Florida (UF). The $24.5 million project – utilizing architectural metal products from CENTRIA - was designed to enhance classroom learning and research in the sciences, arts, and humanities by combining state-of-the-art classrooms, research labs and office space into a single facility.

The turtle has long been used as a metaphor in Native American philosophy for the continual cycle of give and take that personifies the natural world. When the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina constructed the Lumbee Tribal Housing Complex in West Pembroke, they wanted a building that would evoke that symbolism. Metal roofing from The Garland Co., Inc. covers the facility.

The new Bells Mill Elementary School in Potomac, MD is designed to encourage a flexible approach to education that accommodates changing programs, interdisciplinary teaching methods and efficient, cost-effective use of space. Featured on the school are approximately 18,000 sq. ft. of 12” x 1.5” aluminum PAC-CLAD Snap-On Batten metal wall panels and 2,500 sq. ft. of PAC-850 Soffit Panels by Petersen. Colors included Hemlock Green, Colonial Red, Sandstone and Slate Gray.

When it comes to working buildings, it’s tough to beat the pre-engineered metal building approach to construction. Metal buildings go up quickly and economically, and offer the flexibility to meet even the most precise design requirements. The recently completed Rosedale Transport building in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada serves as prime example. The 40,000 sq. ft. project was completed in November 2011 after 10 months of construction, utilizing a metal building system and components from Robertson Building Systems.

Durable metal panels from Metal Sales Manufacturing Corporation elegantly reroof a private residence in Elizabethtown, KY. Nestled at the end of a residential street in rural Elizabethtown – one hour south of Louisville – stands the Keith residence. The Keiths, frustrated with the short lifespan of asphalt shingles, were looking for a more sustainable and sensible roofing option. This led them to choose long-lasting standing seam metal roof panels.

The new six-story Sarasota Police Headquarters Facility is Florida’s first LEED® Certified facility, and one of only 33 LEED Certified police facilities in the country. Designed to be an open and inviting visual icon, the structure includes a large vertical entry plaza facing south. The exterior also includes a secondary screen wall to shade the building, and to provide frames through which to view historic Payne Park. Perforated screening from CENTRIA played a key role in the project.

The VA Boston Healthcare System, West Roxbury Campus was built in the 1940s and in need of a replacement for its shingled roof. As one of several Veterans Affairs hospitals in the greater Boston area, aesthetics and longevity were both important qualities for any construction materials that would be used on a project of this nature. It’s not surprising that metal roofing – supplied by The Garland Company, Inc. – played a key role in the renovation.

The Sims Sunset Park Materials Recovery Facility, a public-private collaboration between Sims Metal Management and the City of New York, has been making headlines and physical progress at an amazing rate. Tasked with processing Department of Sanitation waste from the city’s five boroughs, the new facility - featuring Nucor Building Systems products - was commissioned as a part of Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s 2030 PlaNYC goal to improve air quality, reduce traffic and divert 75 percent of the city’s solid waste from landfills.

The whimsically designed six-story Children’s Atrium at Oklahoma University (OU) Medical Center in Oklahoma City officially opened in April 2011 as the new front door to the Children’s Hospital at OU Medical Center and the OU Children’s Physicians Medical Office Building. Its undulating roofline profile was constructed with a combination of glass skylights and standing seam metal roofing with Alucobond® Aluminum Composite Material (ACM) by 3A Composites USA installed as cladding.

The new 110,000 sq. ft. Williamson College of Business at Youngstown State University is three stories tall and encompasses nearly a full city block. Completed in August 2010 at a cost of $34 million, it represents the largest capital expenditure in YSU’s 102-year history. Noteworthy about the project, given its cost and stature, is that zinc wall panels and coping are featured on its exterior. The material was provided by RHEINZINK.

The National Museum of American Jewish History’s new $150 million, five-story building is the only museum in the nation dedicated solely to telling the story of American Jewish history. The building contains 25,000 square feet of gallery space on three-and-a-half floors, as well as an Education Center, a 200-seat theatre, a multipurpose event space with the capacity for 600 attendees, a café and a museum store. The museum features architectural metal cladding from CENTRIA.

Since acquiring Wachovia Corporation in 2008, Wells Fargo has greatly increased both its client base and the number of branch locations. With new branches opening up all across the country, Wells Fargo has looked to ALPOLIC as a means of ensuring the new buildings would be up to snuff aesthetically.

On May 4th, 2011, Hopkins County officials joined Sheffield Metals International, Horn Brothers Roofing and others in celebrating the activation of a 190kW solar metal roofing installation atop the Hopkins County Civic Center in Sulphur Springs, TX. The system, comprised of products and components offered by Sheffield Metals of Sheffield Village, OH, was installed as part of the repair of two aging sections of low-slope metal roofing over the civic center’s horse stables.

The new North Star Academy, a Duluth (MN) Edison Charter School, uses the latest in construction products and techniques to create a stimulating educational environment based on friendliness, openness and comfort. The 90,000 sq. ft. facility, which serves up to 900 K-8 students, is clad with two styles and five colors of insulated metal wall panels from Lewisville, TX-based Metl-Span.