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Industry News
Beckers Adds Glimmer To Textured Metal Coatings
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 Elk Grove Village, IL -
Beckers' Beckry®Tex line is well known in the industry for its unique textured surfaces, eye-catching aesthetics and durability. In response to customer requests for a wider color palette to expand this exceptional product line into the siding market, Beckry®Tex Glimmer has been introduced.
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Featured Project...PPG
Graffiti-Resistant Coating Protects Seattle Area School
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Issaquah, WA -
PPG and
AEP Span have partnered to protect and enhance Issaquah Middle School with metal wall panels using Duranar® GR (graffiti-resistant) clear coating. It is the first school in the country to use the new coating, which features a proprietary formulation that PPG developed to combat a problem that costs U.S. building owners an estimated $25 billion per year.
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Featured Article...SnoBlox-SnoJax
Best Methods For Attaching Snow Retention Products
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 "In the beginning," writes Howie Scarboro of
SnoBlox-SnoJax, "we only had rocks and logs to help keep snow and ice from avalanching off our roofs. These were crude but effective means of minimizing injury and damage from snow slides. With the advancements in adhesives and fasteners, we now have various methods of snow retention attachment." Check out his discussion of four popular methods of attaching snow retention products to metal roofs.
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Featured Brochure
To learn more about Petersen's architectural metal roof, wall and perimeter/roof edge systems,
click here or on the image at the right.
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Featured Article...AppliCad USA
Contractor Changes Needed To Achieve Metal Roof Goal
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 Citing the Metal Roofing Alliance's recently announced goal of 20% market share for U.S. residential metal roofing by 2020, Ray Smith of software developer
AppliCad USA offers thoughts on how that can be achieved. Using the high market penetration that's been realized in Australia and New Zealand as examples, Smith suggests ways that U.S. contractors need to change their practices to make the 20% goal a reality.
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Featured Project...Petersen
Three-Tier Metal Roof Disguises Mass Of New School
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Tahlequah, OK - The expansive new 500-student pre-K thru 4th grade Heritage Elementary School in Tahlequah was greatly needed by its growing community. The project, designed by Crafton Tull in Tulsa, features a curving spine element that provides the main circulation corridor off of which three major classroom "fingers" radiate. Nearly 87,000 sq. ft. of
Petersen's PAC-CLAD Galvalume Snap-Clad panels in 24 gauge steel were selected to roof the sprawling structure.
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Industry News
METALCON Innovation Station Prize Winners Announced
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 Las Vegas, NV - The winners of four Innovation Station drawings during
METALCON 2017 in Las Vegas, October 18 - 20, have been announced. Contestants entered the drawings throughout the three-day show by scanning 10 Innovation Station displays that were set up in the Las Vegas Convention Center.
DesignandBuildwithMetal.com presented prizes of $500 each to the winners.
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Industry News
Cold-Formed Steel Trusses eBook Released
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 Washington, DC -
BuildSteel, a partnership of steel and construction industry organizations, announces the release of "Cold-Formed Steel Trusses: Design, Performance, and Advantages", a complimentary e-book to help building owners, architects, contractors and engineers better understand how cold-formed steel (CFS) truss systems can help them in their next project.
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October 2017 Contractor Edition Ezine Now Available
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DesignandBuildwithMetal's October Contractor Edition ezine is now ready for viewing. In this issue are a number of exciting projects, demonstrating the beauty, versatility and durability of metal construction products. A great example can be seen on the October cover...a church designed and built using a metal building system as well as several types of metal cladding. To view, click the link below or the image at the left.
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