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Winning a Metal Roofing Alliance 2020 Best Residential Metal Roofing award and an MCA Chairman’s Award, four structures at the Olympus residence in Austin showcase the sustainability and aesthetics of metal roofing.

“The house sits at the bottom of a hill, so their roof is the first thing you see as you drive up,” explains Joel Kenty, CFP, CLU, ChFC, Partner – Business Development, Green Knight Metal Roofing, whose Austin-based company installed 7,500 square feet of standing seam roofing for the project. “The client wanted a ‘wow’ factor for their roof and worked with the architect Bercy Chen Studio on the design.”

What emerged was trendy curved roof which inverts halfway through the approximately 70-foot-long by 30-foot-wide steel, double-lock paneled material. The McElroy Metal Hyperbolic, Parabolic roof incorporates a thinner, 12-inch flat pan roof, instead of the standard 16-inch width. This was done to prevent oil canning and more optimally seam the double lock.

The panels were roll formed on-site and immediately installed with a clip system. Because the fasteners are raised above the level of the metal roofing, this resulted in fewer seams, and a more aesthetic, durable installation.

Metal roofs are quite popular in the Austin area with the influence of the region’s farm houses and barns spreading to the city. While the homeowner desired the material’s sustainability, the family wasn’t interested in the Texas barn metal look, which is why they chose to collaborate with the architect to create a sleek design.

Made from recycled materials and fully recyclable at the end of a long life, the panels incorporate a Kynar coating to reflect harmful UV rays and cool down the attic space. “Metal roofing generally saves between 20 percent and 40 percent on homeowners’ cooling costs,” notes Kenty.

The coating also enhanced the roofing system’s longevity and ability to withstand Austin’s hail, thunderstorms and intense summer heat.

The alternative, asphalt shingles, would have created an adverse effect, absorbing heat and increasing the attic’s temperature. Asphalt also has a very short lifespan, usually ends up in the landfill and as a petroleum product, is not good for the environment.

“The gorgeous roofs featured in this project are truly an architectural highlight of the home,” said MRA Executive Director Renee Ramey. “No other roofing material would have been able to achieve this incredible design, and best of all, it met all the goals the homeowners had for lessening their impact on the environment.”

Driven by oil-related industry, business is booming in Williston, North Dakota. So much so that the airport could no longer keep up with the surge in travel to the region.
 
In designing the new 110,000-square-foot terminal building for Williston Basin International Airport, Alliance Architects sought a low-maintenance, durable cladding that could withstand the harsh northern winters. Metal emerged as the material of choice and was specified in a number of styles, types, and locations including insulated metal panels (IMPs), single-skin, and corrugated panels.
 
The façade’s colors blend into the surrounding prairie landscape, stratified limestone of the Missouri River, and the area’s industrial mines.
 
MCA member companies CENTRIA and Kingspan earned a Metal Construction Association Chairman’s Award in the industrial category, which evaluated the project based upon overall appearance, significance of metal in the project, innovative use of metal, and the role of metal in achieving project objectives.
 
Serving as a judge for the Chairman’s Awards and Metal Architecture magazine’s annual Design Awards Program, Steven G. Blye, AIA, LEED AP, AMFP, Legat Architects, stated, “This is a great exploration of metal. The patterning is strong and done very effectively. Metal is used in a lot of different textures and forms, but it remains cohesive throughout and works well for a greater whole.”
 
To create a 10,000-square-foot enclosure at the main entrance elevation and North/South returns, the architects selected Kingspan’s rainscreen façade.
 
For the west, north, and south sides of the exterior and interior walls, CENTRIA’s EcoScreen Screenwall corrugated metal panels in Allusion Rust were fabricated with mitered corners that wrap window openings and corners of the building. In addition, CENTRIA’s Formawall Dimension Series IMPs were installed with flat and embossed finishes in Silversmith and Dark Bronze at the stair enclosures. The overhang has a five-step soffit and fascia configuration and some of the IMPs were manufactured in parallelogram shapes to maintain vertical joints at sloped fascia.
 
Alliance Architects also specified CENTRIA’s CS-200 Concept Series single-skin metal wall panels in Dark Bronze at the bridge abutments and interior soffits.
 
Built to accommodate 350,000 passengers annually, the two-story structure—more than double the size of the former airport—features four gate lounges, a bar, restaurant, retail, and two runways.

With its striking metal angled façade, the 10-story mixed use 108 Chambers, also called “The Tribeca Rogue” in lower Manhattan’s Tribeca district, is turning heads.

To create the customized, geometric array of angled spandrels framing the windows on the entire façade, metal was selected for its ability to be easily shaped, formed and cut.

The metal facade panels were fabricated by BAMCO and colored with organic resins of pure aluminum. In addition, a highly reactive ink in the metal’s Bronze Deco finish from Pure+Freeform contains varying levels of luminosity which creates an optical texture and glint. The color and reflectivity of the facade changes with the sun’s movement throughout the day adding additional dimension to the large facade.

A Metal Architecture magazine Design Award winner, one judge on the panel, Christina Bazelmans, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, an associate principal with Lamoureux Pagano Associates, commented, “this struck me as really interesting. It’s innovative, the paneling is bold, and the strong forms are interesting and make an insightful statement about the neighborhood—an all-around unique look.”

The architect Woods Bagot’s design carefully considered the surrounding urban context and the fact that the streets in the Tribeca neighborhood are not straight right angles, as is common in Manhattan. Taking this cue, the architects settled on a 108-degree angle for the protruding metal half frames.

The design also considers the nearby 1875 Italian Renaissance Revival Cary Building in setting its angled panel profile at a similar scale and color as the Cary Building’s cast iron façade and point-arched windows.

In the architects’ assessment of their unique design, they state, “the façade maintains the rhythm of the deep mass and large windows of neighboring buildings through a series of interlocking metal frames. These weathered structures offer a nod to the industrial aesthetic of Tribeca and are positioned to optimize views while maintaining privacy for residents.”

BAMCO engineered and fabricated more than 10,000 square feet of Pure+Freeform’s 3 millimeter-thick aluminum wall panels for the project.

The building’s first two floors house retail space with condominiums occupying the remaining floors. Setbacks in the sixth and eight floors support outdoor terraces for some units.

The bronze finish creates an industrial, weathered look and the interlocking metal frames are designed to lend shading and privacy while optimizing views.

SSM Health Saint Louis University Hospital wanted a cutting-edge facility that would provide first-rate patient care while leaving room for future expansions to the facility. Metal Composite Material (MCM) allowed the project to be completed on time, under budget, meeting all the expectations of the project management team.

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