Featured Projects

The 450 members of First Baptist Church in Wimberley, Texas, were anxious to get into their new location in the heart of Texas Hill Country not only because they needed the room, but because the purchaser of the old facility had given them a time limit in which to relocate. COSCO and Associates, Inc., of Crestview, Florida, a design/build construction company that specializes in building places of worship, busily got to work, teaming with Ceco Building Systems to create a beautiful worship facility - using steel framing - with the “Hill Country” look requested by the church.

A renovated, century-old warehouse in the historic Bricktown area of Oklahoma City, OK, is the new home of the American Banjo Museum which has moved from Guthrie, OK. The new $3.3 million, 21,000 sq. ft. facility features state-of-the-art exhibits tracing every chapter of the banjo’s story. Also on display is the Museum’s 300-piece instrument collection. Approximately 350 linear feet of Flex-C Trac® from Flex-Ability Concepts were used to create the art deco theme designed by Architectural Design Group, Inc., Oklahoma City.

This addition to the existing Victor School consists of four buildings by Star Building Systems and totals 20,032 square feet. These structures utilize Star’s StarShield Roof System totaling 20,000 square feet. Completed in December 2008, the four-building school addition in Victor, MT features Star’s SMS, SWE and SSB structural framing systems.

When Frank’s Italian Restaurant (formerly Frank’s Pizza) in Wappingers Falls, NY began construction on an expanded new facility, they wanted a metal tile roof that would blend architecturally with the planned brick construction while also meeting tight budgetary constraints. “The roof that was initially specified proved too costly, and a web search led us to the Met-Tile system,” says Ray Travis, vice president of Mid Hudson Construction Management, the general contractor for the project. “By selecting Met-Tile, we were able to stay within the client’s budget without compromising aesthetics or performance.”

Located in the South Lake Union section of Seattle, Washington, Alley 24 owes its name to the fact it sits on a city block subdivided into four quarters by intersecting midblock alleys. Perhaps a name suggesting sustainability would have been more appropriate though, as the project is among the city’s most environmentally friendly and represents one of the U.S.’s first LEED-certified mixed-use projects. Among the energy-efficient products used on the project were UNA-CLAD™ Custom Sunscreens from Firestone Metal Products of Anoka, MN.

Just as farm operations have become more sophisticated through the years, so too have the shop buildings that keep expensive machinery and equipment in tip-top condition. A prime example can be found in rural St. James, Minnesota where the new shop of LeRoy and Dave Leinenweber is a model of efficiency, both operationally and in terms of energy consumption. The metal-skinned shop is large—80’ wide x 120’ long x 38’ at the peak—and features hydraulic doors from Schweiss Doors of Fairfax, MN.

Los Angeles, one of America’s great cities and the entertainment industry’s leader, debuted her first ever High School for the Performing Arts in September 2009. Situated on 10.2 acres, the school is part of city’s ongoing Grand Avenue project, which includes Arata Isozaki’s Museum of Contemporary Art, Jose Rafael Moneo’s Catholic cathedral and Frank Gehry’s Walt Disney Concert Hall. The school's three focal points are its theater, library and lobby. All incorporate products by Contrarian Metal Resources. The project's composite panel material was manufactured by Alcoa Architectural Products.

The new Jumer’s Casino & Hotel in Rock Island, Ill., was designed to bring a Las Vegas-style gaming experience to the Midwest – opening in December 2008 as a replacement for the company’s Casino Rock Island Riverboat, which had been moored since 1992 on the Mississippi River in downtown Rock Island. The project features 57,083 square feet of Alucobond® aluminum composite material (ACM) by Alcan Composites USA in the 4mm thickness, including 36,580 square feet in the Spectra Cupral color and 20,503 square feet in the custom Texas Copper color.

Sustainability, color and dynamic design characterize the new Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC. Occupying the former 10-acre site of an urban medical center in Pittsburgh, PA, the new facility features a 1.4 million square-foot campus encompassing four distinct facilities anchored by the 13-story hospital and the 300,000 square-foot John G. Rangos, Sr. Research Center. The hospital took advantage of its proximity to Pittsburgh-based PPG. First, by incorporating environmentally progressive glass, coatings and paint from EcoLogical Building Solutions™ by PPG, and second, by using regionally sourced construction materials.

Modern and rustic. Many buildings could be described as one or the other but very few could be called both. Count the new EnerMax office building in Drayton Valley, Alberta, Canada in that latter category. With its heavy exterior stone accents and tower forms it appears almost castle-like. But clad predominantly with Reynobond® aluminum composite material and glass, it is also clearly contemporary.

Totaling 52,888 square feet, the Stonegate III multi-use facility in Omaha, NE utilized metal building framing by Star Building Systems, as well as Star’s StarShield Roof System in Galvalume along with Star’s DuraRib Wall System in Almond. Also incorporated into the structure is the Long Bay structural steel system.

Green Bay general contractor Best Built, Inc., an authorized Ceco Building Systems Builder, was recognized with a “2008 Projects of Distinction Silver, Metal Building, Up to $1 million Category” award by the Wisconsin Chapter of Associated Builders and Contractors, Inc. Best Built received its award for its work on a new facility for Leo Van De Yacht Well Drilling. The new building is a Ceco Building Systems custom-designed steel frame with exterior CMU and exterior metal wall panels and consists of 14,575 square feet of office, pump shop, wash bay, maintenance area and storage.

Like a soda can in a koozie sleeve, Syracuse University’s new Carmelo K. Anthony Basketball Center is wrapped in insulating foam to protect indoor temperatures from outside extremes. The BLUE™ foam insulation for the steel-frame building comes in the form of a new wall system from Dow Building Solutions. The THERMAX™ Wall System helps improve the thermal efficiency of new steel-frame construction with less labor and cost than traditional gypsum wall systems.

Distinct and memorable metal fabric panels from Cambridge Architectural clad the exterior of the 164th Street Garage, one of three newly constructed parking garages serving the new Yankee Stadium in Bronx, NY. The 190-space garage lies adjacent to new Yankee Stadium on 164th Street between River Avenue and Jerome Avenue, almost as if it’s connected to the stadium itself. The structure’s west-facing side sits right next to the stadium’s entrance at Gate 2, which leads to the Yankees Lobby.

When the NBA’s Miami HEAT Group decided to create a marquee on the exterior of its American Airlines Arena, the franchise wanted something that would not only draw attention to the arena itself, but also transform downtown Miami, FL. Made from 3,400 square feet of a high-grade architectural woven stainless steel mesh fabric with interwoven LED profiles, Miami’s Mediamesh® digital media screen, patented by GKD and ag4, provides visitors to the arena with unobstructed viewing from the interior and visually engaging digital media content on the exterior.

A new seven-story, 360,000 sq. ft. tower is at the heart of Salem Hospital’s downtown campus in Salem, OR. The projected $285 million expansion project opened on time and $2 million under budget. Approximately 30,000 sq. ft. of Citadel Envelope 2000® Rain Screen (RS) metal composite material panels were utilized. The panels were finished in Seafoam Green and Sandstone. In addition, 17,000 sq. ft. of Citadel GlazeGuard® 1000 glazing infill panels were also installed.

Studies show that bright buildings can produce bright students. At the new College of Business Administration at California State University – San Marcos (CSUSM), they produce significant energy savings, too. That’s because the building, designed by Gail Bouvrie, AIA, of AC Martin Partners in Los Angeles, is one of the first buildings in the country to feature Solarban 70XL glass, a revolutionary solar control Low-E glass from PPG. Another PPG product, Duranar coatings, was used to protect and beautify the aluminum extrusions used in the window and door frames and other metal architectural components.

The Stage Struck Children’s Theatre, which is part of an historic district in the state of North Carolina, measures 6,120 square feet. Located in Goldsboro, NC, the structure utilized 5,007 square feet of Star Building Systems’ StarShield Roof System, along with the DuraRib Wall System that totaled 4,216 square feet. A Star custom metal building was chosen due to the requirements for clear spans and elevated ceilings for performances.

When Bill Churchill set out to build his 4,000 square-foot Sudbury, MA home, his objective was to apply standardized industrial manufacturing technologies to achieve a residence with superior thermal and energy efficiency. Using Kingspan Insulated Panels’ KingZip® Insulated Standing Seam Roof panels and 300 A Azteco® Embossed wall panels, Churchill was able to create an energy efficient building envelope and better insulate his home.

Located in the gently rolling countryside just outside of this Memphis satellite city is what appears to be the beautiful home of a successful southern country gentleman. It even looks like the Tennessee version of a Kentucky thoroughbred horse farm. Welcome to the Tennessee Baptist Children’s Home Double “B” Boys’ Ranch in Millington. It was the property of a prominent couple who contributed their estate for the boys’ ranch in the late 1980s. The residential structures house 24 boys ages 11 through 18 in family settings. A centerpiece of the facility is the recently-completed pavilion, a custom-designed Ceco Building Systems framed structure.