Famous Fish Market Keeps Cool with Metal Panels
Fulton Fish Market, the nation's oldest and largest wholesale fish market, relocated last year from its original site on Manhattan Island, N.Y., where it had operated since 1835, to a new 400,000-sf facility in the Bronx's Hunts Point Food Distribution Center. The new facility utilizes 532,000 sf of Metl-Span CF42 panels for walls, interior partitions, and coolers, and 161,000 sf of Metl-Span CFR42 panels on its roof. The central corridor of the $85 million, 1,300-foot-long facility is lined with open display cases and coolers for vendors.
"The entire, enormous building is basically a refrigerator designed to maintain 45 degrees," said architect Martin Cybul of Cybul & Cybul Architects, Edgewater, N.J., the project designer. "The panels were integral to the design and they also provided increased R-value and a self-cleaning surface that was critical to the environment."
Cybul said the metal skin provided significant cost savings and allowed the project to be finished on budget.
The construction manager on the project was the New York office of Turner Construction. Installation of the more than 130 truckloads of panels was completed by Girandola & Shutkind Construction, Bronx. Metl-Span Input No. 225 at BDCnetwork.com/quickResponse
Translucent Roof Sheds Light at China Rail Station
China's Shanghai South Railway Station is being fitted with the largest round roof of its kind in the world—a massive multi-modal hub covered with clear Lexan polycarbonate sheet manufactured by GE. The translucent roof design welcomes both daytime light and nighttime lamplight, a sure treat for visitors to the 2008 Summer Olympic Games. GE Input No. 226 at BDCnetwork.com/quickResponse
Water-Tough Coatings are a Perfect Fit for a New Mexico Brewery
When Rod Tweet, owner of the Second Street Brewery in Santa Fe, N.M., was looking for floor and wall coatings to protect his new 1,200-sf brewery addition, he knew he needed a product that could stand up to wash-downs and excessive moisture common in breweries.
"A challenge with floor coatings in breweries is that you don't want them 100% smooth because then they become too slick to walk on," said Tweet. "But you don't want too much texture because then they are hard to clean."
Tweet ultimately decided to use International Coatings' ICO Quartz on the floor and ICO Quartz Cove mix for the transition from floor to wall to provide a seamless, durable, and easily maintained floor coating. For the walls, Tweet chose ICO Glaze wall coating, which dries to a high-gloss, ceramic-like finish impervious to liquid and vapor transmission. It's been more than two years since the installation, and Tweet says he is satisfied with the level of punishment his floor can take. International Coatings Input No. 227 at BDCnetwork.com/quickResponse
School Gets a View
Seeking an out-of-the-ordinary design for its new Roger Ludlowe Middle School in Fairfield, Conn., the school district picked Perkins Eastman Architects view- and light-enhancing plan—a long L-shaped building constructed onto a hillside—from a field of competitors. To collect reflected light, classrooms were equipped with 11-foot floor-to-ceiling Signature Series windows supplied by Moduline Window Systems. Several of its ZeroSightline windows were also used for the project. Moduline Window Systems Input No. 224 at BDCnetwork.com/quickResponse
Fans Keep Kennel in the Green
In a 6,000-sf boarding kennel, finding a way to create clean, cheap, and energy-efficient airflow is a pesky but necessary concern. The owners of Pet Camp, a San Francisco kennel, were looking for a solution to replace the 15 small fans they had mounted on walls and high poles when they stumbled across Big Ass Fans in Lexington, Ky. Two 20-foot Powerfoil fans, which create a gentle breeze throughout the building, were installed to replace the noisy, harsh, and uneven airflow produced by the kennel's existing fans. The new fans are made of 10 extruded hollow-core aluminum blades set to spin slowly at the ceiling, pushing a column of air down to the floor where it radiates outward until it hits a wall or another air column. Then the air is pushed upward toward the ceiling and back down through the fan's blades for another trip through the facility. The slowly rotating fans are eco-friendly, as they use 64 times less power than high-speed fans. They cost less than 10 cents per hour to run. Big Ass Fans Input No. 223 at BDCnetwork.com/quickResponse
Weather Center Gets Massive Green Roof
With a goal of emphasizing open space and concealing the appearance of the vastly subterranean National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration headquarters in Suitland, Md., the facility's designers turned to Henry Company's 790-11 Green Roof Waterproofing Membrane. The 130,000-sf building envelope system protects more than $50 million in ultra-modern weather forecasting equipment and $3 billion in satellites, and is one of the largest green roof projects on the East Coast. Liquid-applied Henry Company Air-Bloc 33, unique for its ability to survive under direct sunlight, was also applied as an ultra-violet-resistant air barrier membrane integrated into the building's visible rainscreen wall cladding assembly. Henry Company Input No. 222 at BDCnetwork.com/quickResponse
Residential and Retail Giant Gleams
Located in a trendy Atlanta neighborhood, the newly constructed mixed-use Plaza Midtown needed to shine. So more than 53,000 sf of silver metallic Alucobond Plus Material was installed by subcontractor Miller-Clapperton Partnership of Austell, Ga. The 2,379 panels encase 418 luxury residential condominiums in two 20-story towers and 70,000 sf of neighborhood retail. The general contractor on the project was Brasfield & Gorrie of Kennesaw, Ga. Alucobond Input No. 220 at BDCnetwork.com/quickResponse
Roof Welcomes Pet Adopters
Rather than creating a typical, tense shelter experience for potential pet adopters at the Humane Society of San Antonio and Baxter County, Mangold Roofing & Sheet Metal of San Antonio installed more than 20,000 sf of 24-gauge Galvalume Plus 16-inch SNAP-CLAD roof panels to fashion a warm, friendly environment which they hope people will enjoy visiting. Industrial strength with an architectural look was established by placing the panels over 3-inch insulation boards and using 1Âľ-inch legs. Petersen Aluminum Input No. 221 at BDCnetwork.com/quickResponse
