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At the exclusive Lovett School in Atlanta, sustainability has become a part of the curriculum for all students. And what better place for students to learn such important lessons than in a newly opened LEED Silver school building. The new Portman Family Middle School incorporates a number of sustainable features. The building's exterior is a blend of brick, glass and ALPOLIC aluminum composite metal wall panels. ALPOLIC ACM is manufactured by Mitsubishi Plastics Composites America Inc. The material was fabricated into panels by Altech Panel Systems.

The ease with which metal buildings can be expanded is one of the reasons why they’re so often employed for the construction of manufacturing and warehouse spaces. And it was a consideration in the selection of a pre-engineered metal building system from Robertson Building Systems for the sales/service and manufacturing facility of Keith’s Walking Floor International in Brantford, Ontario, Canada.

Approximately 8,500 sq. ft. of Metl-Span CF-36 Striated Insulated Wall Panels were selected as a key component on the third-largest Whole Foods store in the world. The 2” panels, finished in custom Vancouver Copper Kynar, were installed horizontally. Located in Lincoln Park, IL, the new 75,000 sq. ft. store includes seven neighborhood-themed eateries, a stage for music and seating for 400 in the eating and lounge areas. The store also offers a 420-car indoor parking lot.

The entrance of the new Sharp Hospital is sleek and shaped like a French curve at the top and bottom. Somewhat similar to a spiral staircase, it is wider at the bottom and more narrow at the top. While this creates a handsome entrance, its shape was a challenge for the installers because it was inconsistent from floor to floor. In addition, there is an S-curve at the apex that tapers and goes over the roof which is visible from the freeway. The S-curve was designed to shield mechanical equipment and a cat walk. Wrapping the knuckle is InvariMatte® stainless steel from Contrarian Metal Resources.

Park Square at Doral completed a new parking garage in 2009 for its office and retail development in Doral, Florida. Using woven metal fabrics from GKD-USA, project developer, Shoma Development Corporation, and architect, Zyscovich Architects, were able to produce a unique, durable and aesthetically pleasing parking garage. The design of the garage called for a multi-dimensional, “checkerboard” pattern. To create the checkered appearance, 104 panels (26,000 square feet) of a custom varied weave of GKD’s Omega 1500, 1520 and 1570 were utilized on the garage’s concrete and stucco exterior.

The Bradenton Beach, FL city pier has reopened following a $2.2 million renovation. The historic pier at the end of Bridge Street had been closed after suffering hurricane damage. The 650’ pier now includes the popular re-opened Rotten Ralph’s restaurant, a fishing kiosk, harbormaster’s office and rest rooms with showers. Approximately 4,500 sq. ft. of Petersen’s Snap-Clad panels finished in Silver Metallic were utilized on the project.

Before Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the Louisiana Army National Guard Readiness Center was based at the New Orleans Lakefront Airport. In the aftermath of the storm the Guard sought higher ground. After choosing a new site, the Guard commissioned the Broadmoor Design Group of Metairie, LA, to design a new readiness center with the capacity to serve as the main Army National Guard aviation hub for operations in the southeast part of the state. In its design of the base's new main building the firm made extensive use of Reynobond Aluminum Composite material from Alcoa Architectural Products.

Totaling 27,058 square feet, the new Saints Peter & Paul School And Parish Center in Seneca, KS, utilized a custom metal building from Star Building Systems. Completed in August 2009, Star’s SMS structural framing system provides the structure of the new facility. The exterior materials include a StarShield Standing Seam Roof system formed from Galvalume-coated steel, Star’s DuraRib wall system in an Almond color, and MBCI’s CFW II wall system in a Brownstone finish.

The exterior of Jamie Oliver’s first independent restaurant in the Canary Wharf area of central London, England, has been completed with a stylish agenda-setting exterior courtesy of cladding specialist James & Taylor. Jamie’s Italian is the blueprint for what the celebrity chef hopes will be a chain up and down the country. James & Taylor’s Senses Aluminium (aluminum) cladding, chosen after consultation with architects Adamson Associates, has been set out around the restaurant’s bold curving frontage.

Metal played a prominent role in the design of the first of what will eventually be a number of new buildings at the Foster City, California campus of Gilead Sciences Incorporated. Designed by the San Francisco, California office of Perkins + Will, the building’s mix of materials includes 8,766 sq. ft. of UNA-CLAD™ Series 3000 Aluminum Plate Panels. Manufactured by Firestone Metal Products of Anoka, MN, the .125” Silver-colored panels were installed by B.T. Mancini Co. Inc. of Milpitas, California.

Cemetery buildings, by nature, must be built to last for long periods of time. It was with longevity in mind that the Department of Military and Veterans Affairs specified metal roofing and wall panels by Englert Inc. for buildings at the Brigadier General William C. Doyle Veterans Cemetery in Arneytown, New Jersey. Specified by the Army Corps of Engineers, the project features Englert's Series 2500 standing seam roofing and Unirib C-36 exposed-fastening wall panels.

Glare is a very real concern when specifying metal roofing for projects in close proximity to airports. And the low-glare characteristics of the material was one of the key reasons why Contrarian Metal Resources’ InvariMatte® stainless steel was specified for the Scottsdale Air Center in Scottsdale, Arizona. Carter Burgess Architects designed the streamlined new building and also chose InvariMatte material for its ability to withstand UV rays and exposure to jet fuel residue. Plus the material looks great and is eco-friendly.

Approximately 10,300 sq. ft. of Metl-Span CF Striated Insulated Wall Panels were used on the administration building at an innovative Eco Park project in Hong Kong. The building is a model for green building measures and has achieved the highest Platinum rating under the Hong Kong Building Environmental Assessment Method (HK-BEAM.)

The National World War II Museum tells the story of the American experience in the war that changed the world – why it was fought, how it was won, and what it means today. Dedicated in 2000, the museum recently underwent an extensive, $300 million expansion, which included the construction of a $60 million addition. The addition’s design makes extensive use of metal, including aluminum dovetail grilles from Ohio Gratings Inc. (OGi) of Canton, Ohio. Approximately 9,000 sq. ft. of the company’s grilles were used in various parts of the museum interior, including in the theater lobby.

To accommodate the need for current and future needs of its police department the City of Mesquite commissioned Brinkley Sargent Architects of Dallas, TX, to design a new, state-of-the-art facility. Completed in December 2008, the 90,000 sq. ft. headquarters has top-notch security features, an emergency operations center, property and evidence area, a high-tech briefing room, space for officers to work comfortably and room for the department to grow into. Featured on the exterior of the building is a product also known as state of the art: Reynobond® Aluminum Composite Material from Alcoa Architectural Products, Eastman, GA.

The Elk River YMCA is full of life and excitement, and the building’s vitality is reflected in its exterior design. The material mix includes precast concrete but the spotlight products are corrugated and flat-lock metal wall panels, both manufactured by Firestone Metal Products of Anoka, MN. Completed in May 2008, the YMCA backs up to a busy highway. To ensure the appearance of the rear of the facility was worthy its high visibility, BWBR Architects of St. Paul, Minnesota, skinned the rear of the building with Firestone’s UNA-CLAD UR-Pro Omega corrugated panels.

The Beth Tfiloh Lower School in Baltimore was moving from an attractive off-site location to the main campus and wanted its new building to be fun and inviting for the students. Approximately 8,500 sq. ft. of Dri-Design panels finished in three complementary colors and installed in a checkerboard pattern helped to achieve the desired effect. The Dri-Design Wall Panel System is an economy-minded dry joint, pressure-equalized rainscreen system. In the case of the Beth Tfiloh school, the .080" aluminum panels were finished in Colonial Red, Burgundy and Mansard Brown colors.

More than 5,000 linear feet of Flex-C Arch™ and Flex-C Trac® from Flex-Ability Concepts were used to bring to life the unique architectural theory utilized in designing the interior office space for Intech’s headquarters in West Palm Beach, FL. Intech, an institutional money management firm, has taken the top two floors of the new City Place Tower. The 18-story building offers 300,000 sq. ft. of Class A office space. Intech’s 50,000 sq. ft. of space was designed by Jalali Design, Los Angeles.

The new Colorado State University Indoor Practice Facility in Fort Collins, CO, sports 39,000 sq. ft. of Metl-Span CF-42 Light Mesa insulated wall panels. The 2” panels were finished in Herring Bone on the exterior and Igloo White on the interior. The 72,000 sq. ft., $13 million facility provides practice areas for football, basketball and volleyball. It is 65 feet at its tallest point and contains a 70-yard synthetic turf football field with adjacent track.

OGi Architectural Metal Solutions provided the galvanized and powder-coated PressLock Steel Fencing for the All Wars Memorial in Atlantic City, NJ. The All Wars Memorial Building had its grand opening in April 2008 after an $11 million renovation and expansion which was jointly funded by Atlantic City and the CRDA. The new playground addition required a secure perimeter fence that was visually open yet strong and durable. For this purpose, the company’s PressLock Urban steel fence configuration was used and installed between brick piers and as single- and double-swing gates with ornamental fabrication.