![]() All provide the well-known Petersen quality and are available in full 70 percent PVDF finish in 45 colors on steel and aluminum. Petersen is long-recognized for its PAC-CLAD metal standing seam roofing products, and also offers metal wall panels including exposed fastener panels, flush panels, composite wall panels, fascia and coping systems, and column covers. The Petersen distributor on the project was Brock Associates in Pittsburgh. And the use of the PAC-CLAD had a lot to do with it,” he said. ![]() “I couldn’t be happier with the way the project turned out. But the corrugated really turned out great.”Īrchitect Lubetz agrees. That made installation of some of the outside corners a little challenging. This job was relatively straightforward, although the building was irregular and didn’t have many 90-degree corners. “We see corrugated popping up all over the place. The architect really did a nice job of mixing and matching the colors,” Stein says.Ĭorrugated metal continues to be a popular architectural material, Stein notes. It’s almost an amusement park appearance that the kids really like. “It certainly sets itself apart from the other construction in the area. Project manager Skip Stein likes the look of the new building. Installation of Petersen’s PAC-CLAD material was done by general contractor Franjo Construction in Pittsburgh. The contractor bid it out and the price was right.” We got involved with Petersen because we like their colors. PAC-CLAD corrugated metal would be the most economical, long-lasting material we could use. “We had an extremely minimal budget for the project. “As soon as we knew we wanted the building to be colorful, metal became the obvious choice for the exterior,” Lubetz says. The decision to use metal as the primary exterior façade material was made fairly early in the design process. 032” aluminum panels were finished in Copper Penny, Silver, Cardinal Red, Award Blue and Patina Green. ![]() So we came up with the idea of literally surrounding the building with simple, elemental blocks that would be individually colored so that we would have this pulsating, dynamic structure,” Lubetz says.Īpproximately 2,600 square feet of PAC-CLAD 7/8-inch Corrugated Panels in five different colors was just what the design team was looking for. “But it was such an unattractive structure that we just couldn’t do it. Any given project requires in-depth knowledge of thousands of building products, and because they are constantly changing and improving, the continuing education of products is essential to serving the needs of the customer.Ĭheck out the top 29 products from 2018 as identified by our readers in the Metal Architecture Readers’ Choice Awards.Front Studio Architects initially was hired to design an addition on the back of the existing library building. Keeping on top of information about products, given this fast-changing world, is a major headache for architects. We measure that interest based on the leads generated from both the response to circle numbers in the magazine and the MetalConnect emails that provide further information to our readers about these products. The Readers’ Choice Awards are selected from all the products mentioned in Metal Architecture magazine in editorial articles during 2018, and are ranked by the interest expressed by our readers. Our readers also expressed interest in learning more about louvers, curtainwalls, wall systems and doors. That doesn’t mean there isn’t plenty of variety among the top 29 products of 2018. Whether the top products are metal roof materials, underlayment, clamps or solar arrays, the overwhelming abundance of roof materials and accessories captures the interest of our readers.įrom the top vote getter, the Matterhorn Metal Tiles by Malvern, Pa.-based CertainTeed Corp., to a couple of corrugated metal roofing products from Phoenix-based Western States Metal Roofing, roofing dominates the spectrum. Every year, the Readers’ Choice Awards comes down to-or goes up to-the roof.
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