Featured Projects

The Tempe (AZ) Transportation Center – a mixed-use center of retail, city offices and leased office space that serves as a link for light rail, bus, bike and pedestrian activities – is one of the first transportation/community buildings in the nation to be submitted for LEED Platinum certification. Included in the $25-million project is the 40,000-square-foot center that officially opened in December 2008, coinciding with the start of Metro light rail operations. The community room’s appearance as a faceted gem is aided by Alucobond® Aluminum Composite Material by Alcan Composites USA, which clads the room’s walls and roof in the custom Spectra Green color and its underside in Platinum.

Sometimes it’s about substance. SHW Group’s floating conference room, dubbed The Cube and designed by architect Mike Hall, sits above the lobby of their atrium in Plano, Texas. The lofty conference room’s western side is covered with Austenite 55 Stainless Steel. A handsome finish that captures the light and reflects it, adding interest and distinction to the room, Austenite 55 Stainless Steel is one of the many distinctively finished stainless steels from Contrarian Metal Resources of Allison Park, PA.

Just off the shores of the San Francisco Bay sits the new Redwood Shores Community Library, providing a gathering place and educational center as well as an eco-friendly facility. The 21,500 sq. ft. bay-side building is topped with Morin’s SLR-16 standing seam metal roofing. The panels can be formed from Galvalume®, aluminum, zinc, copper or stainless steel, but in the case of the library project they were formed from 22-gauge steel with a Champagne Bronze Metallic paint finish.

With “First to the Future” as the theme, the 2009 NextGen home features the newest product offering from DECRA Roofing Systems - Villa Tile in Amalfi Sand. The focus is on strong, green and energy efficient design. An alternative to traditional clay or concrete tile, Villa Tile is made of corrosion resistant, aluminum-zinc alloy coated steel with an acrylic bonded stone chip finish that creates an attractive exterior. A unique product, DECRA Villa Tile offers the classic beauty and architectural detail of an old world Italian tile combined with the superior performance and inherent benefits of steel.

Officials at the Miami Valley Career Technology Center wanted a look for the facility that matched its role as a world-class provider of innovative, high-tech career education. Located in Clayton, OH, the Center serves 27 area high schools and offers more than 50 career technical programs. Approximately 8,500 sq. ft. of .063" aluminum Dri-Design panels finished in Arabian Blue were used to create the dramatic new look. The Dri-Design Wall Panels System is an affordable, dry-joint, pressure-equalized rainscreen system. The renovation design was developed by App Architecture of Englewood, OH.

RCA Metal Inc., A VICWEST Company located in Memramcook, New Brunswick, Canada, fabricated the nearly 6,000 sq. ft. of architectural panels specified as part of the design of the Kenneth C. Rowe Management Building in Halifax, Novia Scotia, Canada. The panels were fabricated from ALPOLIC aluminum composite material, which is produced by Mitsubishi Chemical FP America Inc.

GMH Architects of Drayton Valley, Alberta, Canada, was the designer of the new digs for Drayton Valley’s Brandette Well Servicing Ltd. To provide its client with the desired combination of form and function, the firm mixed conventional building materials with metal building systems and products from Robertson Building Systems, and used the construction services of Camdon Construction, a Robertson authorized builder located in Red Deer, Alberta.

A woven metal mesh system from Cambridge Architectural serves as both a stunning and sustainable exterior accent for the ultramodern Santa Monica Civic Center parking garage in Santa Monica, CA. The 900-space garage was designed not only to visually inspire but to meet or exceed many of the USGBC’s LEED guidelines. The structure employs various sustainable design and construction practices, materials and products – including Cambridge’s architectural mesh.

The new Rose E. Schneider Family YMCA in Cranberry Township, PA is truly state-of-the-art. Located on a 20-acre site, the 80,000 sq. ft. facility includes an indoor aquatics center with four pools, a fitness center, gymnasium, community rooms and a 12,000 sq. ft. wellness center. “The challenge was to design a building that illustrated the activities inside,” said Ralph Sterzinger, principal and project architect, Ross Schonder Sterzinger Cupcheck P.C., Wexford, PA. Featured on the exterior is 5,000 sq. ft. of Citadel Envelope 2000® metal composite panels.

An eye doctor practicing in both the United States and Holland decided to build a new medical office complex in Dothan, AL. Preferring the style of the buildings in Holland to those in the U.S., the doctor commissioned a Dutch firm to design the new building. Saliba Construction of Dothan was tapped to handle the project’s general contracting duties and helped coordinate the replication of features that both the owner and architect wanted. To help with those elements the G.C. enlisted the services of Marty Robbins Roofing Co. Inc., also of Dothan, and Sheffield Metals International of Sheffield Village, OH.

Martco Limited Partnership is a manufacturer of engineered forest products such as hard wood lumber, oriented strand board, pine plywood and treated poles. They produce over 850 million square feet of oriented strand board annually. To accommodate such large production, Martco utilized a Metallic Building Company pre-engineered building system for this multi-million dollar project in Oakdale, LA. The massive plant facility is comprised of several buildings and totaled more than 580,000 square feet.

A dilapidated 1960’s era gymnasium was masterfully transformed into a modern and inspirational worship and education center at Pine Rest Christian Mental Health Services’ facility in Cutlerville, MI. The new 15,500 sq. ft. Postma Center has become the centerpiece of the 220-acre campus. While a significant portion of the existing structure was re-used, only a shadow of the former image remains. The project features a variety of products from Petersen Aluminum.

The Residence In the Woods is a uniquely-formed structure that responds literally to significant site challenges. Designed by its architect owner and wedged between zoning setbacks, a stream buffer and a steep slope, the residence was squeezed vertically into a three-story massing. Each floor is clad in a different material, with the lower level featuring 1/2" sinusoidal panels fabricated from 0.8mm RHEINZINK material in a Preweathered Graphite Gray finish. The panels were applied as a ventilated rainscreen.

Elipse BLC is a developer of distribution and logistic centers for large companies setting up operation in the Baltic countries. When Elipse BLC set out to construct a new distribution center in Riga, Latvia, they looked to North American expertise in the design and optimization of the heating and ventilation system. The SolarWall® technology was chosen not only because it uses renewable energy, but also because of its costcompetitiveness and ability to satisfy the ventilation requirements for the new facility.

Pre-engineered metal building systems from Butler Manufacturing, featuring KoreTeck™ panelized wall systems, were utilized by Alan Anderson Architect, AIA, of Sarasota, FL, for the pair of buildings that make up the newly completed Cobia Bay Retail Center in Sarasota. The project’s general contractor was Formella Construction LLC, a Sarasota-based authorized Butler builder. The Cobia Bay development was completed in February 2009 and consists of two buildings. The larger is 28,314 sq. ft. while the smaller is approximately 4,000 sq. ft.

When ASI Limited President Ken Smith learned about Kalzip’s perforated aluminium facade, he realized it was something that would work well on the new headquarters building his company was planning. ASI Limited, located near Indianapolis, IN, is a building enclosure specialist and the new structure was envisioned as a showpiece of the company's capabilities. It was also meant to reflect the company's forward-thinking philosophy. Kalzip became instrumental in fulfilling both goals.

Now House is a Near-Zero-Energy concept home located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. What makes the project rather unique is that its designer, David Fujiwara, was able to successfully apply the concepts of near-zero-energy-use construction to an existing home—one more than 50 years old—rather than new construction. It speaks volumes that alongside technologies like solar photovoltaics, solar thermal heating, low-flow water fixtures, low-e windows and high-efficiency insulation, the project includes VicElite from VICWEST.

Ocean Gateway is a 15,000 square-foot marine passenger terminal located in Portland, ME that accommodates the international ferry traffic between Portland and Nova Scotia. One of the goals of the Ocean Gateway project was to incorporate innovative materials and products on the terminal while continuing to embrace the historical heritage of the city's waterfront setting. Within the scheme of its design, the new building features Omega-Lite® ACM panels from Laminators Inc.

Though more commonly featured in roofing applications, stamped metal shingles by Paradigm Shingles of Milton, VT, are also perfectly appropriate for use as a wall cladding. Evidence of that can be seen in Portland, ME, where they were recently specified by Richard Renner Architects for the exterior of a newly constructed 1,300 sq. ft. home. Christopher Gormely Inc. of North Yarmouth, ME, was the general contractor for the project, which was built with environmental responsibility and energy efficiency in mind.

Founded in 1983, Musician’s Friend has grown rapidly to become the world’s largest direct marketer of music gear. Their vision is to give musicians the best prices and selection available, along with superior service to help musicians achieve their goals in music. A new 64,800 sq. ft. Wildeck® mezzanine now stands in the middle of their 700,000 sq. ft. distribution center in Kansas City, MO to help utilize the vertical space and manage the 36,000 products Musician’s Friend carries.