Featured Projects

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.

Like the downtown buildings of old, Washington Station, in the heart of Syracuse, NY's Armory District, is built to last. To ensure it will achieve the kind of durability often lacking in today’s construction, the building’s designer clad its exterior in zinc. Approximately 16,000 square feet of RHEINZINK® Preweathered Blue-Gray panels were installed vertically utilizing the pressure- and temperature-equalized rainscreen Consort Panel System, fabricated by Proclad Enterprises Ltd. of St. Albert, Alberta, Canada.

The George Howard Building first opened to the public in 1978 and is home to the administrative offices for the Howard County, MD government executive branch. The building also houses additional offices focusing on everything from general public information to tourism. However, after 32 years, the building was in dire need of modernization, which led to a $23.5 million renovation in 2010 which featured architectural metal products from CENTRIA.

The University of Tennessee Neyland Stadium is home to the Tennessee Volunteers football team. Since its construction in 1921, the stadium has undergone 16 expansion projects, making it the sixth largest non-racing stadium in the world. In 2004, the Tennessee athletics department revealed its most recent plan for the stadium – a multi-phased renovation that would once again expand and restore the iconic venue. The Neyland Stadium Master Plan, designed by McCarty Holsaple McCarty, features ALPOLIC materials.

The new Veterinary Specialty and Emergency Center in Levittown, PA is a 21,000 sq. ft. referral hospital with its own intensive care unit, a CT scanner, radiation therapy and ultrasound equipment, two surgical suites and separate wards for dogs and cats. To reflect the sophistication of the care and capabilities pet owners can expect on the inside, PZS Architects Inc. of Philadelphia gave the building a high-tech look on the outside. Central to its design were Shadow Series metal wall panels by Holland, MI-based Dri-Design.

No one would be surprised to learn that the new Interstate Batteries store in Waco, TX was designed and built using a metal building system. The dark green metal roof, the tan-colored R-panels and even the building’s overall appearance are pretty good clues. What might raise a few eyebrows, however, is that the stone base and stucco-like walls wrapping the front of the building were also off-the-shelf products offered by the project’s metal building manufacturer, Rigid Global Buildings of Houston.

Approximately 1,500 square feet of Petersen’s new horizontal wall panels were utilized as an important design element on the Georgia State University Piedmont North dining hall addition on the Atlanta campus. The 16” concealed fastener panels were finished in PAC-CLAD® Kynar 500® Sandstone finish color.

Room In The Inn is a Nashville, TN-based non-profit that provides a variety of services to Nashville’s homeless community. The organization’s Campus for Human Development, originally constructed in 1986 with the goal of offering a variety of services to Nashville’s homeless population from a single location, recently added a new $13 million Comprehensive Center. This campus hub features architectural metal products from CENTRIA.

Towson University wanted to create an inviting gathering place for students to socialize and study; one that included meeting and study rooms, dining and retail shops, and was infused with the spirit and energy of campus. With those goals as its guide, Baltimore-based GWWO Architects designed the university’s new West Village Commons. Seeking an alternative to glass for the building’s grand staircase and second floor atrium safety railings, the firm turned to Banker Wire for help.

The Shandon Rest Area is located between the Central Coast and the San Joaquin Valley on Highway 46. Originally built in the 1970s, Shandon’s facilities had become outdated and costly to maintain – no longer meeting the needs of its 1.5 million annual visitors. To address these needs and to update the disabled access of the decades-old facility, officials announced the rest area would be rebuilt from the ground up. Metal Sales Manufacturing Corporation supplied 9,400 sq. ft. of sleek roof and wall panels for the new rest area.

EXTECH, Exterior Technologies, Inc. of Pittsburgh, PA recently designed and installed Macrolux IR multi-wall sheet, supplied by CO-EX Corporation, into the skylight glazing of the Theresa Banks Aquatic Center in Glenarden, MD. The 16mm thick Macrolux sheet offered high light transmission for great natural lighting along with good thermal insulation values to reduce the cost of heating the center, and at the same time increasing patron comfort.

The design inspiration for a recently completed private residence located on the Wilmington River in Savannah, GA comes from the architectural and cultural influences of the Caribbean Islands. A primary design goal was to create a one-story house that suited the environment and also broke up the nearly 18,000 square feet of living area. This was achieved by creating a main house plus three guest houses. All are topped with RHEINZINK® Double Lock Standing Seam roof panels in a Pre-weathered Graphite Gray finish.