Metal Roofing Magazine's Idea Book 2006

There’s no getting around it: metal looks good on top of buildings. Like a brand-new Porsche, an ice cream cone on a hot summer day, or Cindy Crawford next to a Pepsi machine, metal roofing is a sight for sore eyes.

And let’s face it — traditional roofing materials often leave observers with sore eyes. With a few exceptions, they’re drab, unimaginative, common, all-to-familiar commodity products. Don’t even get us started on their durability and energy efficiency, or lack thereof.

This is why now is such a wonderful time to be involved in metal roofing. The use of metal in roofing applications is exploding, thanks to a powerful mixture of innovative manufacturers, diligent craftsmen, and consumers seeking long-term, cutting-edge roofing solutions.

Metal’s looks have a lot to do with that. The Idea Book is intended to be a celebration of good-looking metal roofing projects, and for the second time, we have assembled the crème de la crème from respected industry manufacturers, showcasing the signature projects assembled by the architects and installers with whom they work.

But metal roofing’s beauty is more than skin deep. Start with its durability. Metal roofing systems will last years longer than most competing systems. That makes it easier to justify metal’s higher up-front costs — life-cycle costs are a powerful tool in selling and specifying metal. But that’s well-known. For designers, the topic du jour is green building, or environmentally friendly, energy-efficient building. Metal is well-positioned here as well.

• Metal’s high recycled content makes it an easy source of points on projects shooting for LEED certification.
• Cool metal roofs, roofs with surfaces or pigmented coatings carrying favorable solar reflectance and thermal emittance properties, contribute to LEED points and Energy Star ratings.
• Metal also is conducive to earning LEED points related to water collection for efficient landscaping, water reduction, and water efficiency.
• Photovoltaic systems are a perfect fit for metal roofs, either seam-mounted crystalline modules or thin-film laminates. How long green building remains a focal point of the design community is up for debate; the bet here is that it lasts substantially longer than previous
eco-conscious campaigns. In any event, metal’s aesthetics, durability, and green properties make one thing clear.

Whatever the design consideration, metal roofing has you covered.

Click the links below to download .pdf files of the projects featured in this year's idea book.

ABC - American Building Components
ATAS International
Berridge Manufacturing
Centria
Curveline
Custom-Bilt Metals
Decra Roofing
Drexel Metals
Dura-Loc Roofing Systems
Englert
Everlast Roofing
Fabral
Follansbee Steel
The Garland Company
Gerard Roofing Technologies
Ideal Roofing
Kassel & Irons
McElroy Metal
Met-Tile
Metal Sales Manufacturing
MetalWorks by TAMKO
Metl-Span
Metro Roof Products
Millennium Tiles
New Tech Machinery
Petersen Aluminum
Revere Copper
RHEINZINK
Una-Clad/Firestone Building Products
Whirlwind Building Components

Source constructionmagnet.com

Metal manipulation: Curves, curves and more curves

For those of you offering the service of installing curved metal roofing, you know it’s a manageable task once you get the hang of it. Curving metal roofing panels is like anything else — it’s a profitable offering if few in your area can do what you do.

Prestige Construction Systems of St. Augustine, Fla., routinely installs curved metal roofing. Working with a local representative for Berridge Manufacturing of Houston, Prestige has installed more than 2,000 squares of curved metal roofing in the last year.

Architects for PBS&J Architects in Orlando designed the Fire Rescue Administration Complex in St. Augustine with multiple radii. Four different areas of the roof had a curved metal roof — all with different curving measurements. Architects, more than anyone, appreciate the capabilities of metal and are not afraid to push the design envelope with metal. Prestige doesn’t back down either.

It’s one thing to curve metal panels. Because of the wind uplift requirements needed in Florida, in some areas of the roof, the panels were installed on a lightweight concrete substrate. Fasteners had to penetrate the concrete then attach to the deck. Project manager John Turney of Prestige said it was a challenge to get the panels curved to fit properly over the concrete without oil canning. “The whole project, about 300 squares, took us about three months to wrap up,” he says.

The profile selected was Berridge’s Zee-Lock panel, in 22-gauge Galvalume. The architect chose Deep Red for the color.

Turney says the Berridge rep onsite to curve the panels was able to manufacture curved panels to the correct radius. The Berridge ZC-21 curver works in synchronized tandem with the Berridge SP-21 Zee-Lock Panel roll former to fabricate continuous-length curved panels in one operation. Turney says there was no waste as a result of inaccurate curving. “We actually had two leftover panels,” he says. “It’s not total guesswork.”

The Fire Rescue Administration Complex is one of several projects Prestige has worked on in its continuing partnership with St. Johns County, in northeast Florida. “The county likes metal roofing,” Turney says. “We’re doing three or four jobs for St. Johns County. They appreciate the durability of metal and like the warranty. The bigger projects, most of the county complexes, will be roofed with metal.

“In our area, the competition isn’t too great,” Turney says. “There are maybe two other installers who do what we do.”

Less competition should translate into more jobs. Prestige has a good backlog and is optimistic about 2008.

Source constructionmagnet.com

Metal manipulation: Have metal, will travel and curve

Sometimes it takes a special skill — and a willingness to travel — to complete the job.

Black Roofing of Boulder, Colo., was able to handle both challenges last year to install the curved roofing on the University of Wyoming Indoor Practice Facility in Laramie — about 140 miles from the home office.

“There are headaches with jobs like that, getting people up there, getting hotel rooms,” says Jason Ayres of Black Roofing. “We got the job because we could do it and we were willing to go to Laramie.”

The $9.9 million facility, funded through private donations and the State of Wyoming Legislative Matching Gift Program, was a pre-engineered structure from Butler Manufacturing, erected by Delta Construction of Laramie. The design called for a curved roof on the center section of the roof — Butler does not offer curving, so Delta had to find someone who could and would. Black Roofing took the job and subcontracted Premium Panels of Wheat Ridge, Colo., to manufacturer the curved panels onsite with its New Tech Machinery roll former and a curver from Schlebach.

The curved look is consistent with other athletic buildings on campus.

The job for Premium Panels was a good one — a big job (140 squares) and a couple trips to Laramie to run panels and bundle them up for the installers to have raised 65 feet to the center roof section. The 24-gauge, 1-1/2-inch double lock standing seam panels were 16 inches wide, coated in Kynar 500 Terra Brown. Drexel Metals furnished the coil.

Ayres says the installation was rather straightforward once the obvious obstacles were overcome, including getting materials and workers up to the roof. A scaffold was assembled on the lower roofing section so installers could complete the job on the top section.

To achieve the required insulation value (R-30) set by the architect, two layers of 2-inch polyisocyanurate rigid foam were installed and topped with a 7/16-inch OSB. TAMKO’s ice and waters shield was the underlayment of choice.

Safety was also a primary concern — there were several days when the operation was shut down because of the wind. Strong winds actually blew some bundled panels off the roof one night — no one was injured, but the panels were scrap metal.

Photovoltaic panels and a heat transfer wall (Aspire Wall) were also a part of the project to help achieve Zero Energy Concepts.

The building is used by the Wyoming football and women’s soccer teams.

Source constructionmagnet.com