Featured Projects

As the result of funding from federal, state and city governments, along with American Recovery Act assistance, the City of Jackson, Tennessee recently constructed a new transit facility through the assistance of a general contractor - Hoyt Hayes Construction - working exclusively with American-made products. It only seems appropriate that those products were supplied by American Buildings Company (ABC), a Nucor company and leading manufacturer of high-quality metal building systems.

The Leland Olds Station, located near Stanton, ND, is the first power plant for Basin Electric Power Cooperative - one of the largest electric generation and transmissions cooperatives in the United States. CENTRIA’s Versawall and Versapanel insulated metal composite panels were selected for the Leland Olds Station because of their outstanding performance features, as well as their superior benefits in terms of sustainability and aesthetics.

The new Terminal B concourse at the Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International Airport in California is the first monumental architectural project constructed with Duranar® powder coatings by PPG Industries' industrial coatings business. Duranar Regal White powder coatings were applied to a series of curved, perforated metal panels that arc over the main Terminal B structure. Overly Manufacturing, Greensburg, Pa., was the metal panel manufacturer.

Most northern latitude metal contractors were extremely challenged during the 2010-11 winter in getting their projects started. A great example of this is Pat Munger Construction, Inc. of Branford, CT, who had to dig out of more than normal snowfall to start a retrofit re-roofing project. The case in point is a project for Ocean Surveys, Inc. - a scientific data firm - located in Old Saybrook, CT. Roof Hugger, Inc. was called in to help create a retrofit sub-framing system that would eliminate the slope transition.

The New England Regional Council of Carpenters (NERCC) has represented the interests of its members for more than 130 years. When the new home of NERCC and the Boston Carpenters Training Center was designed in Boston, MA, it was important to organization leaders that it be comprised of both traditional and modern architectural influences. To achieve this goal, the new $20-million 74,000 sq. ft., three-story Carpenters Center features a mix of materials, including modern Alucobond® Aluminum Composite Material (ACM) by 3A Composites USA.

One of the nation’s premier convention facilities, the Jacob K. Javits Center is located at 34th Street and 11th Avenue, on the west side of Manhattan. Completed in 1986, the Javits Center has hosted thousands of trade shows, conferences and special events, including many of the top 200 tradeshows. However, the facility hadn’t been expanded or renovated in 25 years, and it was in dire need of more space. Aiding in that revitalization were custom-designed metal building systems from Ceco Building Systems.

A variation of Dri-Design’s patented rainscreen metal wall panels were utilized to create a mechanical penthouse atop the recently completed 10-story Edward Jones building in St. Louis, MO. The 1.5mm-thick perforated zinc panels were fabricated by Dri-Design from VM Quartz Zinc. VM Quartz Zinc is produced by Umicore Building Products USA.

Orlando, Florida’s new Amway Center, home to the NBA’s Orlando Magic, is a key part of an overall strategic plan for continued revitalization of Orlando’s urban core, designed to make that area a recreation and dining destination. In addition to the Magic and NCAA basketball events, the multi-purpose design allows the arena to host hockey and arena football games, ice shows, concerts and many other special events. A wide range of products from CENTRIA are prominently featured on the facility.

Metal Sales Manufacturing Corporation, a premier nationwide provider of metal panels for the building and construction industry, brought colorful durability to the new Humane Society Silicon Valley (HSSV) Animal Community Center in Milpitas, California by providing nearly 1,000 square feet of metal panels.

Ronstan Tensile Architecture - a leader in end-to-end specialty contracting services and technical expertise in tensile architecture - provided a sleek cabling system to help support 20,000 square feet of glass curtainwall inside the JW Marriott Hotel at L.A. LIVE, part of a new cutting-edge tower built for the premiere entertainment campus in Los Angeles, CA.

The Cincinnati School for the Creative and Performing Arts is the first creative and performing arts school in the United States to serve grades K-12. It is also the first publicly funded school devoted to the creative and performing arts. A signature feature of the new school's design is its RHEINZINK® Preweathered Blue-Gray cladding. The material was used as a complement to red brick at the building's main entrance.

The Grand Strand Water and Sewer Authority in South Carolina has grown from a utility with no assets, customers or funding in the early 1970s, into a company with more than 60,000 customers. To manage its expanding service area, the concern has had to add staff and build a new headquarters. Adorning the recently completed office building is approximately 10,000 sq. ft. of Englert jobsite-rollformed metal roofing.

Approximately 32,000 sq. ft. of Citadel Envelope 2000® Reveal (RV) System metal composite material (MCM) panels were installed on the first LEED Silver K-12 educational facility in the State of Missouri. For that reason and more, Staley High School in North Kansas City, MO, is a model for education in the 21st century.

Metal Sales Manufacturing Corporation, a premier nationwide provider of metal panels for the building and construction industry, provided a total of 47,500 square feet of bold, sleek metal paneling for both the interior and exterior of the new Grand Canyon University (GCU) Student Recreation Center in Phoenix, AZ. The 55,000-square-foot Student Recreation Center houses a state-of-the-art fitness area, a dance studio, and three professional-quality practice courts.

The new Little League Southeast Regional Headquarters and Stadium in Warner-Robins, GA is a $5.5 million facility that serves as the administrative office for Little League baseball and softball activities in seven Southeast states. The complex is located on a 26-acre site and includes a 3,500-seat tournament stadium and 10,400 sq. ft. administration building. The facility sports nearly 30,000 sq. ft. of PAC-CLAD® material from Petersen.

River Crossing Corporate Center, the 89,000-square-foot corporate headquarters of M3 Engineering & Technology in Tucson, AZ, is different by design. In an area of the country where stucco buildings are the norm, this two-story structure is clad in more than 30,000 square feet of metal panels from Kingspan Insulated Panels North America and Morin.

Without a doubt, many people have heard of Bush’s Original Baked Beans. But few probably know anything about Bush Brothers and Company or its origins in Chestnut Hill, TN. Sharing that story is the mission behind a newly opened Visitors Center in that town. Featuring a general store, theater and cafe, the facility is topped with Englert Series 1000 standing seam metal roofing.

Located in the New Orleans, Louisiana business district, 930 Poydras was designed as an urban, high-rise residential apartment complex with ground-level retail spaces for added amenities and an improved streetscape. The 462,000 sq. ft. facility, including 8,700 sq. ft. of retail space, features Formawall wall systems from CENTRIA.

A pre-approved manufacturer of products for Toyota’s Image USA branding program, VICWEST had the distinction of providing aluminum composite wall panels for North America’s first LEED Platinum-rated automobile dealership. The 59,000 sq. ft. dealership is located in Eugene, OR.

The Yale-New Haven Hospital in New Haven, CT regularly ranks among the best hospitals in the U.S. and is nationally recognized for its commitment to teaching and clinical research. As a reflection of the institution's high standards, project team members selected stainless steel mesh fabrics from Cambridge Architectural for the exterior of the hospital's recently constructed parking garage.