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LEWISVILLE, Texas – Fourth-generation siblings oversaw the construction of the new Zialena Winery production facility and hospitality center in Geyersville, Calif., using insulated metal panels from Metl-Span on both buildings.
“We started with a steel frame system and to reduce cost, selected insulated metal panels that provide finished interior and exterior walls as well as insulation all in one,” says Dave Siegert of Osborn Architects in Santa Rosa, Calif. “Aesthetically, we were after a modern texture, a sleek finished product.”
Zialena Winery sits on a 120-acre property and dates back to the early 1900s when Giuseppe Mazzoni immigrated from Italy to become a grape farmer and winemaker. Giuseppe's sons, Fred and Jim, produced wine until the 1970s. Jim's son, Mike expanded the grape growing business that exists today under the name of Mazzoni Vineyards. Mike's children, Mark and Lisa, brought back the winemaking tradition under the Zialena name and constructed the new production facility and hospitality center.
The 10,000 square foot production building was constructed using steel framing from Garco Building Systems and insulated metal panels for the walls and roofing. Lanning Construction of Sonoma, Calif., installed the insulated metal panels. The IMP roofing panels (10,669 square feet) were 5 inches thick with a 22-gauge Charcoal Gray exterior. The 2,200 square foot hospitality center, which was constructed with wood and steel framing, was finished with Metl-Span's CF42 panels to match the production facility. CF42 wall panels were installed in three colors: Charcoal Gray (7,213 square feet), White (5,988 square feet) and Terra Cotta (2,248 square feet).
“The landscape of the area helped us decide on colors,” Siegert says. “The Charcoal Gray and Terra Cotta go well with the surrounding woodlands.”
Conventional, multi-component building envelopes address the weather barriers with multiple product sources and installation steps, leading to an overly complex wall assembly and lengthy construction schedules. IMPs provide the same performance elements in a single, easy-to-install component. The end result is a more efficient building envelope that impacts everything from interior trade coordination to the bottom line. The product provides thermal efficiency and all-weather control in a single component. The highly efficient insulation delivers an added advantage by minimizing building energy usage and construction costs. The product's unique foam core even allows the performance of the insulation's R-value to increase as the core temperature of the panel decreases. Durable interior panels are easy to keep clean, which is important in a facility where beverages are produced.
“We are very pleased with the outcome of the Zialena Winery,” says Steve Lanning, owner of Lanning Construction. “Our unique challenge was the layout of the seams with the horizontal panels with preformed corners. Once we adjusted the spacing, it all went together like it was supposed to.”
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Fifth design event brings balance of technology, training and socializing to San Diego retreat venue
Columbia, MD (June 13, 2019)—Mark your calendars for April 22 to April 24, 2020 because global design and BIM software solutions provider Vectorworks, Inc. will host the Vectorworks Design Summit in San Diego, California at the Omni La Costa Resort & Spa. Design professionals, educators and students in the architecture, landscape and entertainment industries are welcome at the fifth event that will offer industry workshops, product training for all levels of expertise, inspiring keynotes, networking opportunities and a customer appreciation party.
“The Summit will be held on the West Coast, and it will not only offer the ultimate training experience, but a getaway from the routine of everyday life,” said Tara Grant, director of channel operations at Vectorworks. “We hope professionals take time out of their busy schedules to broaden their design expertise, and network with fellow Vectorworks enthusiasts while relaxing and enjoying all that the beautiful Omni La Costa Resort & Spa — one of the world’s top resorts — has to offer.”
The Omni La Costa Resort & Spa is home to the Chopra Center’s total mind-body healing retreat, offers golf courses with history of PGA Tour events, eight pools, tennis courts and an athletic center with fitness classes. Located nearby in downtown San Diego, the home to the Padres baseball team, Petco Park was designed by last year’s keynote speaker Antoine Predock, architect at Antoine Predock Architect.
“My favorite part of the Design Summit is just getting to learn all the different ways people use Vectorworks and the different things I can do, whether it’s in my industry as entertainment or different industries,” said Kaitlin Hill, who attended last year’s event. “Also, it’s great meeting the other people in the industry and just making those connections.Become a Speaker/Trainer
The call for speakers and trainers at the Vectorworks Design Summit is open. Presentations must be one or two hours and share best practices, tips or techniques that streamline workflows and empower designers to create innovative design solutions.
In addition to completing a short application, candidates who have not spoken at a past Design Summit must include a short video demonstrating their presentation skills. Proposals are due July 12, 2019, and those chosen will be notified by phone or email by August 2, 2019.
Those chosen to be speakers will receive free conference registration and travel to the conference as a thank you.
Become an Exhibitor/Sponsor
Additionally, Vectorworks hardware, industry and product partners can showcase their products and services to attendees by becoming an exhibitor/sponsor at the Summit.
For the latest information regarding the Design Summit, bookmark vectorworks.net/design-summit and follow #VectorworksDesignSummit.
Press can register for free by emailing Vectorworks Senior Media Relations Manager Lauren Meyer at lmeyer@vectorworks.net.
CAMBRIDGE, ONTARIO – Arriscraft, manufacturer of naturally-made products that emulate quarried stone, has introduced an incredibly exciting thin natural limestone product - Adair® Clip. Arriscraft is the stone products group of General Shale, the North American subsidiary of Wienerberger AG and a leading manufacturer of brick, one of the world's oldest green building materials.
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“Adair® Clip is unlike any other stone cladding on the market. We've essentially designed very large sheets, or panels, of limestone that clip into a channel system for an outstanding aesthetic,” says Craig Swirzon, Thin-Clad Product Manager. “Not only does Adair® Clip offer a completely unique look – with panels up to six feet long - it's also natural limestone which means its performance and durability is unmatched by concrete-based manufactured stone.”
At 1-1/4" thickness, Adair® Clip is designed for installation using the Gridworx® channel system, which Arriscraft has successfully used for its thin ARRIS.clip calcium silicate stone product for many years. Three heights - 11-3/4", 15-3/4", 23-3/4" - are available in lengths of 47-3/4" and 71-3/4" making this finished installation absolutely unique. Customers can choose from Blue-Grey or Sepia tones, in Fleuri or Veined patterns.
Arriscraft's Adair® Limestone is a natural, quarried stone harvested in the Georgian Bay region of Ontario. Since the 1960s, the quarry has offered Blue-Grey and Sepia tones. In addition to Parliament, Arriscraft produces Adair® Masonry Units, Anchored Dimension Stone, Landscaping Stone, Thin Adair® and Tile.
BURBANK, (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- BIMobject, the world's largest BIM content platform, has entered a strategic partnership with AEC Daily, a world-leading developer of online educational courses for the construction sector, to leverage each company's worldwide presence and increase specification success-rates enhancing the BIM process from design through procurement.
This collaboration streamlines the process of taking AEC Daily's educational CEU courses and connects the designer with the manufacturer-specific building products on BIMobject, allowing a more efficient design process. Additionally, designers and contractors searching for products on BIMobject will find associated training course links.
“Our industry is in need of both intelligent automation and process change to make it easier for professionals to design and build,” said Mark Haddad, president of BIMobject, North America. “We’re excited to strategically align with AEC Daily and provide a connected process combining education with access to manufacturers' digital BIM products, such as architectural lighting, interiors, mechanical and electrical components.”
On BIMobject.com, building product manufacturers (BPMs) are able to showcase their products to 1.4 million users, where those products can be specified and incorporated into construction projects. BPMs can review users’ profile information, find out what file types were used and see how many downloads have been accumulated. Architects can select from over 1,500 brands that represent 56,000 actual products. The BIM objects become shared knowledge that form a reliable basis for decision-making during the entire lifecycle of a project—from conception to demolition.
“In addition to increasing product understanding through education, designers need an easy way to incorporate those products into their projects,” said Jeff Rice, president of AEC Daily. “BIMobject provides that solution, and our partnership allows us to raise the BPMs' success rate of getting specified in projects.”
AEC Daily is one of the largest providers of continuing education (CE) to the construction, architectural, interior design and engineering communities. These professionals rely on AEC Daily to maintain their accreditation and keep them up-to-date with new products and technologies. Courses are complementary and available online with automated credit reporting to numerous organizations across the United States and Canada.
“We know from our post-course surveys that most of our learners specify the course sponsor's products,” Jeff continued. “And that those products are then extremely likely to be purchased for a project. Now that we're bringing both BIMobject and AIA CEU training to BPMs, it's the best of both worlds.”
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Bossier City, La. — Some roofers are simply cut out to do their thing in the spotlight. Empire Roofing of Austin, Texas, executed the removal of an existing leaking stainless-steel metal roof and the installation of McElroy Metal’s 238T symmetrical copper standing seam roofing system on a historic centerpiece building on the campus of Sam Houston State University.
Historic Austin Hall in Huntsville, Texas, was reroofed less than 10 years ago. It's the oldest building west of the Mississippi River to have been used continuously by an educational institution. Austin Hall was first occupied in October 1851 and completed the following year.
Unfortunately, it soon became evident that there were defects pertaining to the 2009-10 roof installation and it needed to be replaced. The stainless-steel interlocking panels were not seamed or soldered as specified and in accordance with historically accurate methods, resulting in wide-spread water infiltration beneath the metal roof assembly. Armko Industries of Austin was contracted to determine the best plan of action for resolving these issues and restoring the Austin Hall roof, internal gutters and cupola back to a watertight condition. During the evaluation, portions of the existing roof were needing to be removed to verify conditions. Sam Houston State and Armko requested Empire Roofing assist the evaluation.
“Based on my initial observations, I was hired to come in and actually remove and replace some of the roof near the cupola and internal gutters to assess and verify the exact nature of the perceived defects,” says Aaron Todd, who leads the metal roofing and sheet metal division at Empire Austin. “I hated to be the bearer of bad news, but it was a lot worse than they anticipated. The flat-seam panels were installed using a Pittsburgh seam, which really isn't designed to be a watertight seam in a low-slope (2:12) roofing application. The underlayment that was installed did a better job of keeping out water than the flat-seamed panels.”
Working together, Empire and Armko put together a plan that required the removal of the stainless-steel flat-seamed panels and the internal gutter liner. The Texas Historical Commission was involved in the renovation to ensure the new roof would be as historically accurate as possible. Plans and specifications issued by Armko Industries were to remove the existing stainless steel and to reroof with the 20-ounce copper 238T standing seam on all roof sections, interior gutters and related sheet metal components. Specifications and details issued siding removed at the cupola walls and a new liquid-applied waterproofing membrane was applied over the new sheathing, with new siding installed to match the original siding. At the base of the cupola, the specifications and details called for the installation of thru-wall flashing using 20-ounce copper. Titanium PSU-30 high-temp self-adhering underlayment covered the roofing substrate and was used as a lining in the internal gutters, under the 20-ounce copper.
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We set up scaffolding and worked on the octagonal cupola first,” Todd says. “The design incorporates a convex curvature with all roof sections meeting at the apex. Together with my superintendent, Diego Trevizo, and our lead foreman, Uri Contreras, we measured everything we needed for the cupola roof and gave the cut list to our shop fabricators, who produced the panels and trim for the cupola roofing, the design of which was proposed by Empire and approved by the Texas Historical Commission and Armko. We also had a 10-foot mechanical brake onsite to fabricate and modify any panels as needed during the installation process. My team and I love working with copper, because aside from the obvious qualities inherent in its chemical make-up, it allows for a more thorough arsenal of seaming and joining techniques due to its unique malleability relative to most other types of commonly used metal components.”
Todd says standing seams were incorporated at each hip of the cupola to avoid the need to solder vertical joints. At the apex of the cupola, standing seams were folded down and lapped under the finial skirt. The crew sealed/riveted/soldered the finial base to the copper panels to create a watertight and wind-resistant detail at this very exposed and relatively flat area.
Empire Roofing owns roll formers with dies to produce McElroy's 238T and 138T symmetrical standing seam panels. “Empire's capabilities with regards to commercial, industrial, and historical roofing projects are far reaching, and we love a good challenge,” Todd says. “If you've got a difficult problem, it's our job to solve it, and we love working with innovative manufacturers like McElroy in doing so.” Symmetrical standing seam systems do not have male and female legs, but are comprised of panels with matching left and right legs. The panels are joined with a mechanically seamed cap. The panels are non-directional, meaning they can be installed left to right, right to left, or even from the center out. The seam design on a symmetrical panel is more watertight than a double lock because there is no interruption of sealant in the seam at the clip locations. Most importantly, a symmetrical panel can be easily replaced if there is ever damage or a reason to pull a panel out of the roof at a later date.
“Through a judicious use of hydrostatic details utilizing butyl tape in lieu of solder at key areas, we were able to achieve a long-term watertight and wind-resistant roof assembly that only minimally relies on soldered joints and that can accommodate thermal movement much better,” Todd says.
Austin Hall is located on a hill among old-growth trees, so there isn't much room to park a roll former to produce panels up to 25 feet long. It's a relatively small project, about 6,000 square feet. “We set up our staging area in the road, about a quarter-mile from Austin Hall,” Todd says. “To minimize disruptions to daily university activities, we decided to run panels in the evening and have 3-4 guys walk the longer panels up the hill, one at a time. We rented a golf cart to transport guys down the hill to the roll former and bring smaller items up to the jobsite. We've got a great crew and it was all hands-on deck for this one. In one night, we produced all the panels and telescoped them to the roof on our spreader bar, which we attached to the forks of our onsite skytrack. We didn't damage a single panel … that's tough to do with copper!”
Todd was sure the roofing details would be watertight and wanted to make sure the internal gutters didn't cause any problems. The Empire crew used sandpaper to etch the flat 20-ounce copper before it was fabricated into gutters. Once fabricated and roof-loaded, the gutter pieces were joined in 40- to 50-foot sections in the interior gutter, then lifted out and placed on saw horses. All joints and seams were fully soldered on the saw horses and then placed in their respective areas inside the internal gutter troughs, where the few remaining seams were joined and soldered in place. The gutters then were coated with Kemper 2K PUR, a solvent-free, fleece-reinforced and liquid-applied waterproofing system based in polyurethane resin. Empire used a roller to apply the coating in open areas and brushed on the coating in corners.
EAST LONGMEADOW, Mass. – When his company decided to team with Massachusetts-based Green Earth Energy to install its new 265 kilowatt rooftop system, William Gagnon knew the long-term benefits would outweigh the initial costs. However, the benefits were much more than expected.
“To date, we have generated 178,070 kWh and expect to save over $20,000 annually,” explained Gagnon, vice president of marketing and sales for Excel Dryer. “But as a company who prides ourselves on green innovation and sustainability, the decision to invest in a solar panel system was based on more than just cost-savings.”
Since the company's 1,132 solar panels began operation this spring, the system saved 125,378 kg of harmful CO2 emissions, which is the equivalent of planting 6,955 trees. The goal is to eventually run the entire facility off of solar energy.
Green Earth Energy installed the company's solar panel system to handle annual usage, which means its solar modules are more cost-effective, efficient and higher performing than conventional models over their lifetimes. “We installed the Canadian Solar brand of solar modules,” Green Earth Energy founder Chris Scyocurka stated. “In our view, this is the most powerful solar product on the worldwide market.”
A leader in sustainability and manufacturer of products that help facilities qualify the most LEED® v4 Credits in the industry, Green Globes and other certifications to achieve corporate and government sustainability goals, Excel Dryer saw solar panels as an opportunity to further cement its reputation as an industry thought leader.
“Our high-speed, energy-efficient hand dryers promote sustainability and environmental practices in concert with just good business sense,” Gagnon said. “In our own way, we believe solar panels allow us to practice what we preach.”
