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MCA Welcomes New Members RHEINZINK America, Inc. and East Coast Metal Systems, Inc.
Glenview, IL The Metal Construction Association (MCA), a progressive association of nearly 100 member companies with specialties in the metal construction industry, welcomes RHEINZINK America, Inc. of Woburn, MA and East Coast Metal Systems. Inc of Bellaire, OH as new members of the association.
Founded in 1966, RHEINZINK is headquartered in Datteln, Germany. RHEINZINK Americas North American headquarters in Woburn, MA offers fabrication and installation of the RHEINZINK zinc product in roof, façade and gutter applications.
"RHEINZINK America is looking forward to participating in the various forums MCA has to offer," said Thomas Hornebo, president of RHEINZINK America. "MCA will keep us up to date with new developments across the metal industry."
"Our company supports the initiative of promoting metal products in the US as a sustainable alternative to more conventional materials as well as keeping the focus on natural metals in the US market," he said.
East Coast Metal Systems, Inc. is a full service fabricator and installer of engineered architectural metal and exterior envelope systems. "East Coast Metal Systems joined the association for the networking opportunities and the access to industry trends and updates," said David McConnell, general manager. "We're interested in getting involved in the MCM Fabricator Council," he said.
MCA is an organization of manufacturers and suppliers whose metal products are used in structures throughout the world. The association promotes the use of metal in construction through education, marketing support, technical programs, monitoring of industry issues, and achievement awards. MCA's next national meeting is the 2011 Annual Meeting, set for January 23 to 25, 2011 in San Diego.
For more information about membership in the Metal Construction Association, visit the MCA website or contact us at mca@metalconstruction.org
MCA Recognizes Innovative Building Projects With its 2009 President's Awards
Glenview, IL -- The Metal Construction Association (MCA) recognized its 2009 President's Award winners at its Annual Meeting in Naples, FL in late January. The President's Awards are an annual designation given to outstanding building projects involving MCA members. The Awards honor innovation and creativity while showcasing how MCA member products help achieve innovative building designs.
Each year, winners are selected from projects submitted by MCA members to Metal Architecture Magazine's annual Design Awards Program. MCA board members chose winners in five categories: Overall Excellence, Roofing, Commercial-Industrial, Municipal-Institutional, and Residential. The MCA President's Awards are presented to representatives of MCA member companies as well as architects, contractors and fabricators involved in each project.
The projects that received their respective MCA President's Awards for 2009 were:
- Overall Excellence: Central Los Angeles Area High School #9, Los Angeles, CA
- Roofing: St. Aloysius of Gonzaga Church, Jackson, NJ
- Commercial-Industrial: ISPC Corporate Offices, Tampa, FL
- Municipal-Institutional: Benicia-Martinez California Toll Plaza, Martinez, CA
- Residential: MuSh Residence, Los Angeles, CA
Overall Excellence: Central Los Angeles Area High School #9
Central Los Angeles Area High School #9 is a new high school project with emphasis on the visual and performing arts and the Los Angeles Unified School District wanted a campus that would reflect the creativity of its students through the architecture of its buildings. The 238,000-square-foot complex on a 10.26-acre site is comprised on seven unique buildings.
Gray Velvet ACM was installed using the R4-300 system on all academy and art building facades. Reynobond Natural Stainless Steel Composite from Alcoa Architectural Products was selected for aesthetic as well as practical reasons and installed using the R4-300 system on the exterior of the lobby, lobby canopy and pop-out windows. Reynobond Natural Brushed Aluminum Composite was installed using the R4-300 system on the skylights and at miscellaneous locations. The rain screen system allows for very clean joint detailing (visually open and thin joints), has no exposed fasteners; also the separation of building layers allows each layer to be more intact relative to its function.
Riverside Group was the metal fabricator on the project and Custom Metal Fabricators installed more than 73,000 square feet of metal panels. PCL Construction Services was the general contractor on the project. COOP HIMMELB(L)AU was the design architect and HMC Architects was the executive architect.
Roofing: St. Aloysius of Gonzaga Church
Erdy McHenry Architecture, the designated architects for this project, did extensive research into the life and ministry of St. Aloysius of Gonzaga Church that led to their design featuring delicate soaring roof lines evoking the concept of simple worship, anchored by four massive piers at the corners providing the foundation to the building. The standing seam, hyperbolic parabolic roof structure serves as a distinguishable image for the church. The architect chose a Series 1300, 17 inch, 24 gauge standing seam panel from Englert for the roof material.
Excell Roofing installed the more than 37,000 square feet of dove gray Galvalume metal covering the roof.
Commercial-Industrial: ISPC Corporate Offices
Building owner ISPC Financing required a strong image in their corporate office building design which embraced the team oriented work ethic that has allowed the company to grow over the past 25 years. Metal facing provides a sleek, strongly vertical surface to convey stability and strength. Aluminum composite material from Alcan Composites USA is composed of 0.020" thick aluminum facing (interior and exterior) with a 4mm thick polyethylene core. The 7,200 square feet was installed by Kistler-McDougal Corporation and was coil coated in a copper penny color. Four foot by two foot panels were attached using the rain screen method.
The architect for this project is ROJO Architecture and Bollenback Builders is the general contractor.
Municipal-Institutional: Benicia-Martinez California Toll Plaza
The new Benicia-Martinez toll plaza was designed to replace an original toll plaza built in 1962 that no longer could meet standards for efficient toll collection. To incorporate both the unique curvilinear forms and a changing color scheme in the design of the plaza, approximately 55,000 square feet of Alucobond® ACM from Alcan Composite USA in the 4mm thickness and Copper Metallic color and 6,000 square feet of Alucobond in the 4 mm thickness and Shimmering Teal color were used to clad the building walls and canopies. The panels were fabricated by Elward Systems Corp. and installed by C/S Erectors, Inc.
Both the architect and general contractor on the project is the California Department of Transportation.
Residential: MuSh Residence
Aesthetics, durability, flexibility of application and ease of installation were the reasons that metal was chosen for the unique MuSh residential project. Two separate structures on a typical subdivision infill lot include a garage, art studio within one structure and the main house as the other. A custom patterned rain screen was designed and detailed by architects Studio 0.10 Architects and provided by manufacturer VMZINC by Umicore. The interlocking panels had
never been used in short, non-continuous vertical runs before but the manufacturer was able to minimize the scale of the joins found in larger scale buildings while still satisfying panel expansion throughout the daily cycle and also to roll form differing dimensional panels to yield.
Priority Sheet Metal installed approximately 5,000 square feet of charcoal color rolled form VM Anthra Zinc interlocking panels in 1 mm (20 gauge).
Bonomo Development was the general contractor on the project.
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