Featured Projects

Showcasing an impressive mix of aesthetics, functional layout, natural lighting and ventilation is the Oxbow Public Market - a specialty food and wine store in Napa, California. The market's enticing, yet functional layout was achieved through the use of a 19,815 square foot pre-engineered metal building system by Metallic Building Company, topped off by IPS RWP 250 insulated metal roof panels.

Ronstan Tensile Architecture, an end-to-end specialty contractor of tensile architecture, provided its architectural rod systems to the San Diego Yacht Club’s new Malin Burnham Sailing Center in San Diego, CA. The sleek steel rod systems, which act as cross bracing and web compression struts, brace the center’s timber roof trusses. As a result, they provide both a solid roofing structure as well as a maritime aesthetic to perfectly complement the building’s purpose.

In Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada, Westside Common fuses elements of metal building and conventional construction to create an image appropriate for both its commercial office and retail tenants. Advance Design & Construction Ltd. of Medicine Hat, an authorized builder of pre-engineered metal building systems by Robertson Building Systems, designed the 360’ long x 86’ wide structure. Ground was broken for construction of the 30,120 sq. ft. building in November 2008 with completion wrapping up one year later.

The University of Quebec à Chicoutimi is renowned for its significant research in aluminum and metallurgy and is located in what is known as "the valley of aluminum" because of the area's large amount of aluminum production. It's fitting then that the school's new Arena de L’UQAC features a distinctive metal roof that extends down over one of the structure’s walls. The roof and its integrated curved wall were created using a combination of site-formed and shop-fabricated Kalzip 65/400 panels.

Business owner Kevin Larson and wife Sue decided their tiny town of Hackensack, Minnesota, needed its own entertainment, a business that would allow residents and nearby townspeople to enjoy a movie in town, at the same time building the economy of Hackensack. To bring their Bear Pause Theater idea to reality, they hired Kuepers Construction of Baxter, Minnesota, as architect and general contractor, using Ceco Building Systems products and expertise. The 13,268 square-foot pre-engineered steel building was completed in seven months.

Metal Sales Manufacturing Corporation took the national stage on ABC TV's Extreme Makeover: Home Edition on December 12, 2010, as the company donated its Stile metal roofing panels to the Gaston family residence in Pensacola, FL. Contrasting the stonework of the home and surrounded by Christmas lights, the roof tops off the house perfectly, exuding a warm and welcoming presence.

Used extensively by bicyclists, walkers, runners and skaters, the Hank Aaron State Trail in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, recently opened the new Valley Passage Bridge to guide users across the Menomonee River. Covering the new bridge is curved metal roofing from Floline Architectural Systems. The trail is named for legendary baseball player Hank Aaron, who began his major league baseball career in 1954 with the Milwaukee Braves and wrapped it up in 1976 with the Milwaukee Brewers.

Metal building systems offer the flexibility to blend in with virtually any environment, as evidenced in the construction on the Nason Medical Center in North Charleston, South Carolina. This facility was designed with vigilant consideration to four large oak trees that were to remain undisturbed. Metal building systems by Metallic Building Company played a prominent role in the construction.

The Rust Library renovation and expansion in Leesburg, Virginia added 15,000 sq. ft. of state-of-the-art library space to an existing 23,000 sq. ft. building. Topping the library is a new jobsite-manufactured Englert metal roof. The installation is noteworthy for the installing contractor's approach to fabricating panels for a conical roof that serves as one of the library's signature features.

When CVS/pharmacy, America’s leading retail pharmacy, constructed its new distribution center in Chemung County, NY, the company covered the 750,000-square-foot facility with approximately 220,000 square feet of insulated metal panels from Kingspan Insulated Panels North America.

In the post-9/11 era, border crossings have changed dramatically. The outdated 1960’s plaza infrastructure at the Queenston-Lewiston Bridge across the Niagara Gorge, one of Canada’s busiest border crossings, had far outlived its effectiveness. Charged with creating a new crossing complex–at a cost of approximately $30 million–was Moriyama & Teshima Architects, Toronto. Among the low-maintenance, environmentally friendly products it chose as claddings for the new administration building and portions of the new toll plazas was RHEINZINK® Graphite Gray zinc.

Originally built in 1964, East Hills Mall has long been an economic catalyst for St. Joseph, MO, drawing customers from a multi-state region. But with the look becoming dated and its future success in doubt, Hollis+Miller Architects, Lee’s Summit, MO, in collaboration with ComArts of Boulder, CO, was tapped to freshen the appearance of the 676,000 sq. ft. retail center. Among the products used to accomplish the design goals were Citadel Envelope 2000® metal composite material (MCM) wall panels.

Mercy Health Center, Oklahoma City, OK, has renovated and expanded its Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) to incorporate the most current technology and care unit design. Design for the 21,000 sq. ft. renovation features prominent curves and complex radiuses in hallways, nurses’ stations and common areas. Products from Flex-Ability Concepts were used to create those curves and radiuses.

Renovating the roof of the general administration building at Walter Reed Military Medical Center in Washington, DC was as much a labor of love as it was a complex reroofing job for the craftsmen at National Roofing Company in Baltimore Maryland. As part of its work at the historic facility, National Roofing replaced old metal roofing with a new Englert jobsite-manufactured system.

The Pacific Plaza building in downtown Tacoma, WA was once a four-story, decades-old, crumbling parking garage. Now, the striking new six-story structure is state-of-the-art and Washington’s only LEED Platinum core and shell construction project. Featured on the exterior of the $35 million, 250,000 sq. ft. project are insulated metal wall panels from Metl-Span.

Located on a former wheat field in Brighton, Colorado, is Harvest Fellowship. This 17,280 square foot multi-span church facility, including a sanctuary and gazebo, features metal systems from Metallic Building Company. The structure combines a unique mixture of textures, including the use of stucco-embossed steel PBR panels, faux stone columns and metal roofing.

On its website, Ziba, a design and innovation consulting firm based in Portland, OR, makes the statement, “We exist to design beautiful experiences.” The company’s headquarters, located on the edge of Portland’s Pearl District and completed as Ziba celebrated its 25th anniversary, speaks to this quote. Joining an expansive wall of glass along the building's main facade are single skin metal rainscreen panels from Morin, a Kingspan Group Company.

The new IBM offices at Dulles Station West in Herndon, VA, truly reflect today’s mobile work force. The design team implemented IBM’s new e-workplace guidelines, an initiative intended to create a workplace environment more closely aligned with the mobile patterns of IBM employees. Petersen’s PAC-1000F Flush Series column covers contributed to the design success of the Mobility Area where IBM employees can access power and data receptacles set in the columns at floating elliptical work tables.

The very first thing that travelers now see when entering the United States in Champlain, NY is stunning etched metal fabric from Cambridge Architectural. Two different Cambridge mesh systems lend aesthetic appeal and functionality to the U.S. Land Port of Entry’s primary inspection booths and two processing facilities.

When clever design meets expert installation, metal building projects like Holgate Square are the result. Located in Seattle, WA, the four-building, 26,800 sq. ft. development was completed in June 2010 at a cost of $1.5 million. Johnson Architecture & Planning LLC of Seattle was the architect. It designed each of the structures - which range in size from 3,300 to 15,000 sq. ft. - around metal building framing systems from Varco Pruden Buildings Inc. of Memphis, TN. Charged with putting the buildings up was CHG Building Systems Inc., an authorized VP Builder from Renton, WA.