Featured Projects

As Michigan’s first large-scale Silver LEED-Certified science building, the Albion College Science Complex boasts an energy-efficient, stucco-embossed exterior provided by Kingspan Insulated Panels. The project is a blend of renovation and new construction and benefits from a variety of green building components. The $41.6 million Albion College Science Complex renovation was completed in 2006 and received Silver LEED Certification from the USGBC in 2007. The project’s design specifically called for green building practices in order to meet the requirements for LEED Certification and Project Kaleidoscope.

Approximately 1,000 ft. of RHEINZINK® gutters and downspouts provide great looks and better drainage for one Greenwich, CT, residence. The gutters were installed by Greenwich Specialties, Inc. and unlike traditional gutter systems, the half-round RHEINZINK gutters are supported from below with brackets. Cradling the gutter from below helps keep the gutter clear and makes cleaning and maintenance easier. The half-round shape reduces the dependence on slope to move water compared to flat-bottom gutter designs.

Façade specialists James & Taylor have won their own university challenge with a combination of silver and bronze Eyetech that adorns Loughborough University’s first multi-story car park in Leicestershire, UK. James & Taylor supplied 1,400 square meters of Eyetech expanded aluminum (aluminium) mesh, anodized in silver and bronze. The cutting-edge material, which envelopes the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, provides a futuristic, yet practical finish to the university’s £3.5m project.

Located in Carlisle, PA, the Dawn Commons Retail Center utilizes for its construction a pre-engineered metal building system and components from Robertson Building Systems of Ancaster, Ontario, Canada. The 10,000 sq. ft. building was completed in April 2007 at a cost of approximately $830,000. John C. Brogran designed the building while Galbraith/Pre-Design Inc. served as the general contractor/erector.

With 20,000 sq. ft. under roof, the Ross Group Construction Corporation Headquarters in Tulsa, OK, features a custom metal building system by Star Building Systems. The custom metal building system—which measures 200’ wide x 100’ long x 16’ eave height—was chosen for its speed of construction and value of the structure relative to other construction alternatives, while achieving the same appearance and structural durability. Tilt-up concrete walls were used in conjunction with Star’s products.

Metallic panels from Kingspan Benchmark and Morin clad Highlands Plaza Three, a four-story, state-of-the-art medical office building located in St. Louis, MO. HP3 accounts for 86,000 square feet of the 26-acre mixed-use campus developed by Balke Brown Associates. Project architect Gray Design Group, also located in St. Louis, specified 12,000 square feet of Integrity Series 22-gauge panels, X-12 and XC-12, while Kingspan Benchmark customized 8,000 square feet of two-inch thick insulated foam panels for the facility.

The Ben White Branch of the University Federal Credit Union (UFCU) in Austin, TX uses curved panels from Kalzip to create a unique but highly functional element of this dynamic green building. The facility actually has two of these unique cylindrical aluminum sheaths. One encircles a cistern that is part of the building’s rainwater collection system and the other is a sign that replicates the cover on the cistern.

To VersaTube® Building Systems, a leading manufacturer of pre-engineered steel building components and framing systems, it doesn’t come as a surprise. When Easy Build Structures, an authorized VersaTube® dealer based in Surrey, British Columbia, reported the sale and construction of a customized building to the City of Vancouver for use as a salt storage cover, it represented yet another new market application for the company’s flexible steel building designs.

Roanoke, Virginia’s City Market is the oldest continually operating open-air market in the Commonwealth of Virginia. It began with the issuance of 25 licenses to vendors—then known as Hucksters—in 1882. In 1886, two years after the creation of a municipal market was authorized by the first City of Roanoke Charter, the City Market Building was constructed. It became the heart around with the Curb Market and Market Square were developed. When the old building's roof began to fail, putting a new metal system on in its place was the obvious solution. That new roof was manufactured by McNeil Roofing, A Sentrigard Metal Roofing Systems Certified Contractor.

The Community Banks of Colorado building in Denver, Colorado, features a bank on the ground level with office space on the floors above, and an exterior balcony on the third floor. The granite and glass structure’s exterior includes 8,000 sq. ft. of Bone White Omega-Lite® panels, manufactured by Laminators Incorporated in Hatfield, PA. The Omega-Lite panels were fabricated on-site and installed by Sondrup Sheet Metal of Englewood, Colorado, using Laminators’ 1-Piece Tight Fit Molding System.

The new Centegra Health Bridge Fitness Center is located on the 40-acre Centegra Health Campus in Huntley, IL. The 120,000 sq. ft. facility presents a high-tech exterior look that features a “running bond” panel pattern plus random placement of two different silver colors of Metl-Span panels. The running bond pattern creates a distinctive appearance by staggering the vertical joints between panels. Approximately 26,000 sq. ft. of Metl-Span 2” Architectural Flat insulated panels were utilized. The majority of the panels were 24” x 64”.

Approximately 9,000 sq. ft. of Petersen Snap-On standing seam roof panels provided key architectural branding elements for the new Bank of Georgia located in Newnan, GA. The straight and radiused 24 gauge panels were finished in PAC-CLAD® Kynar 500® Medium Bronze.

Situated in Lathrop, CA, this 12,231 sq. ft. project for Delta Power Sports utilized a custom metal building, by Star Building Systems, for the clear span requirements as well as cost considerations and speed of construction. Delta Power Sports is covered by Star’s StarShield Roof System in Polar White color. Conventional framing was used for the wall system, along with metal stud framing and stucco for the exterior. Completed in June 2008, this project is used for all-terrain vehicle sales.

Those who believe there are limits to the imagination—especially when it comes to housing both airplanes and people in the same structure—should meet Daniel Shaw. A resident of Geneva, Florida, the 62-year-old plumbing contractor has taken the “hangar home” concept to a whole new level. Shaw’s metal-clad hangar home is 50’ wide x 60’ deep x 30’ tall. Its most noticeable feature initially is the porch that wraps the front and two sides of the building. A closer look, however, reveals that a large section of the porch is actually built into the façade of the home’s 45’-wide x 15’-high Schweiss Doors hydraulic hangar door.

As part of an ambitious residential remodel, a Canadian homeowner turned a one-story home into a two, and changed its style from classic bungalow to Spanish mission. In completing a true-to-style transformation, the owner chose stucco and brick for the home’s new exterior walls and tile for the roof. But Allmet stone-coated steel—provided by VICWEST—was chosen over authentic clay or concrete for two basic reasons: weight and longevity.

Hillcrest Medical Center’s striking new Oklahoma Heart Institute in Tulsa presents an inviting appearance both inside and out. The six-story, 183,000 sq. ft. building is capped with a round rotunda that emits a beacon visible at night across half of the city. Approximately 23,000 linear feet of Flex-C Trac and Flex-C Angle cold-formed/light-gauge steel framing products from Flex-Ability Concepts were used to frame the rotunda and entire front façade as well as create the interior curves and radiuses that help provide a welcoming feel.

The artistic shade screen on the new Science and Humanities Building at the Sierra Canyon School in Chatsworth, CA, offers a pleasing break from the ordinary for students looking through it and for passers-by looking at it. The curved screen, made of perforated Kalzip aluminum panels, is a key design component of the 54,000-square-foot building that includes classrooms, a library, science and laboratory facilities, and a student center.

4,000 feet above sea level, in the Southern California desert town of Yucca Valley rests the first all-steel house prototype from Blue Sky Homes. This 1,000 square foot, light-gauge, galvanized steel home marks the beginning of a new movement not only for pre-fabricated residential homes, but as an answer to the environmental standards of today’s sustainable building movement. The house is based on the Blue Sky Homes Building System™ and showcases the use of metal in prefabricated residential applications, from the steel frame design, to the energy efficient steel roof manufactured by AEP Span.

Located in Hatfield, PA, Bucksmont Indoor Sports is a 73,200 sq. ft. facility that benefited from the use of a custom metal building by Star Building Systems because of the project’s large clear span requirements. The Star builder was Schlosser Steel Buildings, Inc., Hatfield, PA. The steel erector was Branning Steel Erectors, Inc., Souderton, PA. The engineer of record was Schlosser Steel Engineering, Inc., Hatfield, PA.

Forty years ago, the parishioners at the Moncton Wesleyan Church in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada, numbered just 65. Things have changed a lot since then. Today the church is the largest in Atlantic Canada, with Sunday services and special events attracting upwards of 2,000 people. They meet in the new Wesleyan Celebration Centre. It was part of a 36,200 sq. ft. addition constructed with the aid of metal building systems and components from Robertson Building Systems.