| December 27, 2016 - Weekly News Update |
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Industry News
MBCI's Retro-R® Panel Receives Florida Approval
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 Houston, TX - MBCI's Retro-R® panel has received statewide Florida approval by the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation as FL21121 for roof applications.
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Featured Project - Petersen
LEED Gold Administration Building Topped With Metal
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Mundelein Village, IL - After more than five years of planning within an unusual public-private partnership, a spectacular new village administration building has been completed in Mundelein Village. Featuring metal products from
Petersen, the two-story, 32,000 sq. ft. structure, which achieved LEED Gold status, replaces an aging building that served as the town's headquarters since 1929.
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Industry News
AppliCad Adds FAQ Section To Website
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 Jupiter, FL - AppliCad USA, maker of RoofWizard roof estimating software, has announced the addition of a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) section to its website. Access to the section for AppliCad customers is under the Support tab in the navigation row at the top.
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Industry News
ATAS Team Receives Award At Canstruction® Event
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 Allentown, PA - The "Monsters of Metal" team, with members from ATAS International Inc. and the Architectural Studio, participated in the local Canstruction® competition recently held at the Lehigh Valley Mall. They earned the "Best Use of Labels" award, utilizing a variety of canned vegetables, along with bags of white rice and black beans, to create their cansculpture®.
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Featured Project - Metl-Span
Stucco-Finish IMPs Enhance Church's Appearance
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Olathe, KS - The growing congregation at the Church of the Harvest in Olathe needed to greatly increase its worship capacity, and it was searching for a durable and attractive building. The combination of an engineered metal building from
Butler Manufacturing with Tuff Wall panels from
Metl-Span met the criteria and made everyone happy.
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Columnist - Jeff Alexander
Durability Is Key To Performance In Exterior Coatings
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 "Exterior architectural coatings serve many purposes, including the protection of a building's structure from degradation and corrosion," writes Jeff Alexander of Valspar Corporation, in his latest column for DesignandBuildwithMetal.com. "It's important to note that many times architectural coatings are applied onto a structure's exterior metal panels as the first step in the metal building product process - before the panels are formed and well before they're shipped to the construction site. This means that building owners and contractors need to think about the threats these metal panels, and consequently the coatings that protect them, could endure at the very beginning of a project."
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December 2016 Institutional Projects Edition Ezine
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DesignandBuildwithMetal's December 2016 Institutional Projects Edition ezine is now ready for viewing.
This issue highlights a structure that houses an historic mining wheel (shown on the cover at left), a pair of public libraries, a 70' globe for a natural sciences museum, and a handful of other interesting projects - each featuring metal products. This ezine is free to read and requires no login to access! To view, click the link below or the image at the left.
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