Featured Projects

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 Originally built in the 1970s, Shandon’s facilities had become outdated and costly to maintain – no longer meeting the needs of its 1.5 million annual visitors.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.

Families, Inc. Counseling Services has outpatient facilities throughout northeast and north central Arkansas. The new northeast Jonesboro facility includes offices, counseling spaces and a training room. The main goal of this project was to centralize numerous corporate operations and services at a single location to better serve clients and healthcare professionals. Another goal was to create a welcoming, modern space that clients would find soothing. Architectural metal products from CENTRIA helped to achieve these goals.

Whirlwind Steel Buildings, a metal building manufacturer headquartered in Houston, TX, together with Crain Group LLC, a construction management firm, were key players in the completion of a 10,000 sq. ft. addition to the Clear Lake Chinese Church in Webster, TX. The client envisioned a sporting arena as well as food service and classroom areas. The building has morphed into a mix of open and enclosed spaces with ample room for basketball courts and a stage for theatre productions.

Meeting the need for large buildings with column-free interior spaces is no problem for Rigid Global Buildings, as evidenced by the successful use of a Rigid steel building system for the construction of the 65,000 sq. ft. Foothills Sports Arena in Littleton, CO. Saunders Construction of Centennial, CO, built the 200' x 320' building for the Foothills Park & Recreation District.

Located in the foothills of the scenic Cascade Mountains, the new Swedish Medical Center in Issaquah, WA is one of the most energy efficient hospital campuses in the nation. Among the materials utilized for the 550,000 square foot, two-phased project's construction were Metl-Span insulated metal wall panels.

Auto-Owners Insurance is one of the nation’s leading property and casualty insurers in the United States. The company is represented by approximately 37,000 agents in more than 6,200 agencies around the country, with claims and underwriting staff operating out of regionally based offices located throughout the country. In Kentucky, the company's employees recently moved into a new 18,000 sq. ft. claims center. Reflecting the agrarian and equine architecture common to the state, the building is topped with a Hartford Green Englert metal roof.

The State University Of New York (SUNY) Upstate Medical University Vertical Expansion is one of the most dramatic construction projects in the facility’s 40-year history. The new six-floor expansion was built above the hospital’s existing East Wing and is a great addition to the Syracuse, NY skyline. A tree house design inspired this seemingly weightless tower that is suspended in the New York sky. CENTRIA supplied a myriad of products that were used on the stunning project.

They call it The Century Project. It didn’t take 100 years to complete but the expansion and renovation of the St. Mary’s Hospital & Regional Medical Center in Grand Junction, CO, has nonetheless been many years in the making. It began with the construction of a new 12-story, 44,000 sq. ft. patient tower and culminated with the renovation and reconfiguration of 76,000 sq. ft. of existing hospital space. Helping to give those old sections a modern look were aluminum composite panel systems from Citadel Architectural Products.

The Chicago Theological Seminary (CTS) enjoys a proud legacy of progressive education and preparation for future religious leaders in a multitude of ministries. The 150-year-old institution is located on the campus of The University of Chicago and is affiliated with the United Church of Christ. CTS is also poised to continue its mission well into the 21st century and beyond with the help of a new 80,000 sq. ft. building that features Dri-Design pressure-equalized rainscreen wall panels on its exterior.

The new University Hospitals Ahuja Medical Center in Beachwood, Ohio is a $298-million 432,000 square-foot medical center which includes both a seven-story 144-bed hospital and a three-story outpatient medical building. The hospital is designed with a seven-story curved curtain wall filled with glass and accent bands fabricated from Alucobond® Aluminum Composite Material (ACM) by 3A Composites USA. Alucobond also clads a large portion of the medical center’s exterior walls, as well as other exterior and interior surfaces.

Admiring the look of the standing seam metal roof on a neighbor’s home, a Boulder, Colorado homeowner decided to rip the 13,000 sq. ft. of eight-year-old asphalt roof shingles off his own home and replace it with 17,204 pounds of 20 ounce copper. The new material was formed into an Englert Series 1300 profile which features 1-1/2" standing seams.

Penn Yan Academy in New York’s picturesque Finger Lakes region provides an intellectually stimulating learning environment for students in grades 9 - 12. However, the actual building was woefully outdated and not conducive to a modern learning environment. New additions and renovations at the Penn Yan, NY-based academy have transformed this 1960s era building into a modern 21st century facility, integrating a variety of CENTRIA products.

The recently completed major addition to the St. Louis Science Center utilizes approximately 20,000 sq. ft. of Citadel Envelope 2000® Rout & Return (RR) System metal composite material (MCM) panels. The panels were finished in Shasta White and Silver Gray.

Metal building systems are tailor made for projects with tight budgets and tighter time frames. That theorem was proven true in the recent construction of the Ed Yarbrough Indoor Tennis Center in Jasper, IN. The project was completed in September 2011 after just 90 days of work, at a cost of only $400,000. The metal building system utilized for its construction was manufactured by Robertson Building Systems.