Featured Projects

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.

The new 21-story 2000 McKinney office complex is located in the Uptown District of Dallas, TX. The busy, developing area contains a mix of commercial, residential, and retail establishments. From the inside, the 2000 McKinney building features dramatic, unobstructed views of Downtown Dallas and the nearby Arts District. From the outside it has a unified upscale appearance with its six-story parking structure merged into the overall look by Kalzip perforated and solid aluminum material.

Conventional wisdom says to limit the number of metal roof penetrations whenever possible. The fewer the number, experts say, the lower the risk of a leak developing at some point due to less-than-perfect workmanship. The same holds true for panel splice points. Those that don’t exist can never become a problem. But how do you eliminate splice points on a roof that’s 136’ wide? That was the challenge at Silver Run Elementary School in Millville, NJ, and was met by the use of an Englert jobsite-rollformed metal roof system.

Though not necessarily by intention, the use of mirrored stainless steel panels for the building’s angled soffit creates the eye-catching illusion of bent support columns outside the new ShoWare Center in Kent, Washington. The soffit panels, along with the matching mirror-finish stainless steel column covers, were manufactured by Firestone Metal Products of Anoka, MN. Completed in December 2008, the ShoWare Center is a 154,000 sq. ft. multi-purpose entertainment event center that also serves as the ice hockey home of the Seattle Thunderbirds semi-professional team.

Ordinarily, function is the sole consideration in the design of an industrial mezzanine. That’s what makes the pair of free-standing mezzanine structures in Waikoloa, Hawaii, so special. Constructed for the West Hawaii Sewer Company in the summer 2009, these two units go above and beyond in terms of appearance…and their good looks were achieved with little more than a splash of color. The manufacturer was Panel Built Inc. of Blairsville, GA.

Cladding supplier James & Taylor has added the final touches to a new sixth form (age 16 and older) college building in Stockport, Greater Manchester, England, with a shimmering curved façade that provides an animated, high-tech finish. The subtle, reflective face on the £40m project at Aquinas College was created using four different anodized finishes that coat both mirror-polished and highly-etched Senses aluminum (aluminium) tiles.

Morin, a Kingspan Group Company, recently supplied wall panels from its Integrity Series for the new Agricultural Labs and Greenhouse Building at Antelope Valley College. Located in Lancaster, California, the college first opened its doors in September of 1929 with 13 students; today the college provides educational opportunities to 16,000 students. To construct the $7.3 million building, the X-12, XA-12 and XC-12 profiles from Morin’s Integrity Series Wall Panels were applied to the exterior.

Over 34,000 sq. ft. of aluminum louver products from Ohio Gratings, Inc. (OGi) of Canton, Ohio were utilized on the exterior of the newly completed Marquis Condominiums project in Miami, Florida. The company’s LG-60 and LG-100 louvers were incorporated on the development’s parking garage while LG-37 louvers were used as grilles around the mechanicals on the roof.

Located on a 30-acre site, the new St. Stanislaus Catholic Church in Modesto, CA merges traditional forms with a contemporary worship environment. The 26,250 sq. ft. church offers seating for 1,300 parishioners. Both Flex-C Trac and Flex-C Arch from Flex-Ability Concepts were used to create arches and repetitive curved forms in the ceiling and structure.

The 31,000 sq. ft. Spring Lake Park, Blaine, Mounds View Fire Station in Blaine, MN, represents a merger of two older stations. Designed by Tushie Montgomery Architecture of Minneapolis, MN, and completed in September 2006, it features on its exterior metal construction products from Firestone Metal Products of Anoka, MN.

With an entire section of its corporate website devoted to green concepts, Hubbell Lighting Inc. has demonstrated its ability to talk the talk as far as sustainability is concerned. What visitors to the site might not realize is that company officials also know how to walk the walk. And with the construction of their new corporate headquarters back in 2007, they proved it! Featured on the exterior of the four-story LEED Silver-certified project is an aluminum composite panel system by Altech Panel Systems, FEATURING ALPOLIC ACM from Mitsubishi Plastics Composites America Inc.

The Center for Courageous Kids in Scottsville, KY is a world-class medical camp designed specifically for children living with medical challenges that would prevent them from attending a traditional camp. More than 50,000 sq. ft. of Petersen’s Snap-Clad panels were utilized on multiple buildings at the $16.3 million facility. The 24 gauge panels were finished in Award Blue to provide continuity and a bright look throughout the campus.

Formability ranks high on any list of the key attributes of aluminum composite material (ACM). The ability of the material to be effectively used on both sweeping curves and tight bends is a testament to that quality, and was a contributing factor in the material’s selection for the exterior of the drive-thru canopy at the new IBC Bank headquarters building in Oklahoma City, OK. The bank was designed by WKMC Architects Inc. and features on its drive-thru canopy a Series NM-500 aluminum composite panel system by SAF Metal Fabrication of Villa Rica, GA.

There are two absolutes for milling high-quality grain for pasta and other food products: the processing facilities must be clean; and climate control systems must maintain temperature and humidity levels that prevent condensation. To meet those rigorous conditions the operators Caremoli USA retrofitted its Ames, Iowa grain processing plant with the HIGH-R Insulation System.

The new facility for Badger Sheet Metal was designed to bring together three manufacturing operations owned by the company but previously located in separate facilities throughout the Green Bay, Wisconsin, area. Badger Sheet Metal Works, Badger Marine Works, and Veripure-Food Sanitizer are now under one roof in a single 118,000 square foot manufacturing facility designed to provide maximum efficiency and flexibility to the company’s design and manufacturing operations. The building features custom-designed steel framing by Ceco Building Systems.