Oscar Castillo, Author at CENTRIA - The Reveal

Design Innovation

A Warm Welcome

Oscar Castillo May 17, 2017 at 5:41 pm 0

Duluth Transit Authority rolls out $27 million facility as a red carpet to passengers and pedestrians.

Aaron Kelly, AIA, LEED AP, received an immersive welcome to Duluth, Minn.

“My third day on the job at LHB was an interview for the project,” Kelly, the award-winning specialist in civic, sustainable design, says. “I was all in and have been living and breathing it for three years.”

The project Kelly refers to is the $27 million, 150,000 square foot Duluth Multimodal Transportation Center. The sleek, modernist structure offers an amalgam of transit services – bus, car, taxi, trolley, bike, and pedestrian – in a prominent, high-profile downtown location for the city’s 90,000 residents. (more…)

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Panel Discussion

America’s Game

Oscar Castillo January 31, 2017 at 9:46 pm 0

CENTRIA products are showcased on National Football League stadiums nationwide.

The first stadium of its size to utilize a retractable roof, NRG Stadium will play host to Super Bowl LI on Sunday, February 5^th. The grandiose, high-performance venue will serve as an appropriate backdrop to a clash between two of the NFL’s most dynamic offenses, not to mention the pomp and circumstance that coincides with the world’s greatest sporting spectacle.

Houston’s NRG Stadium is one of dozens across the United States to feature CENTRIA exterior metal building products. The flashy metallic façade showcases over 250,000 square feet of CENTRIA’s flagship product, Formawall Dimension Series insulated metal panels (IMPs) in multiple shades of silver. Other CENTRIA products include IW Series single-skin concealed fastener panels and nearly 175,000 square feet of EcoScreen perforated screenwall. (more…)

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Design Innovation

Urban Context

Oscar Castillo September 20, 2016 at 7:59 pm 0

For an environment where durability and security are paramount, metal provides a functional and attractive solution.

Building a new elementary school in a busy urban environment like Los Angeles comes with many opportunities and challenges. When Irvine, California-based architectural firm gkkworks was contracted to design the Sally Ride Elementary project for the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), the designers wanted to create a community asset that would be a positive improvement to the physical construct of the neighborhood while assisting LAUSD with student achievement through architecture and performance-based design. (more…)

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Design Innovation

No More Moisture

Oscar Castillo August 28, 2016 at 6:11 pm 0

CENTRIA system revitalizes high-rise multifamily property.

“It’s dry.”

To the residents of 8330 On the River, an 18-story, 226,000 square foot apartment building in Detroit, Mich., no two words have ever sounded sweeter.

The 280-unit complex, built in the 1970s on the banks of the Detroit River, has struggled for years with water infiltration after every hard rain. Not just a little leakage. But a lot.

“It wasn’t like just one or two units had a leak,” reports James T. Pappas, AIA, president of Fusco, Shaffer & Pappas, Inc. Architects and Planners, the 52 year-old design firm based in Ferndale, Mich. that was hired to solve the water problems. (more…)

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Design Innovation

Aesthetic and Technological Advantage

Oscar Castillo July 13, 2016 at 5:46 pm 0

Mon Power Regional Headquarters showcases creative spark.

Round the bend on southbound Interstate 79 just past the Highway 250 interchange in Fairmont, W.Va. and prepare to be amazed: A futuristic, high-tech citadel suddenly towers over the rolling West Virginia countryside.

The Mon Power Regional Headquarters is a dazzler. The $50 million, 148,000-square-foot data center “looks like you’re going to run into it. By design, it’s perfectly situated for maximum visibility from the interstate,” explains Richard T. Forren AIA, NCARB, principal/senior project architect, of Omni Associates Architects, Inc., the building’s designers.

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Design Innovation

Making Waves

Oscar Castillo May 10, 2016 at 3:00 pm 0

Great Lakes Research Center showcases the best in metal wall panel technology.

Stationed on the shores of the Keweenaw Waterway to Lake Superior, Michigan Tech’s new, three-story Great Lakes Research Center (GLRC) is a one-stop shop for any and all scientific research relating to the Great Lakes—the largest surface freshwater system in the world. The facility hosts collaborations between a number of university departments researching air-water interactions, biogeochemistry, hydrodynamics, fisheries, and storm-water management, amongst other subjects.

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Design Innovation

Innovation Through Integration

Oscar Castillo March 14, 2016 at 1:27 pm 0

Orthopedic Ambulatory Building sparks medical center design transformation.

The Rush University Medical Center Orthopedic Ambulatory Building (OAB) was the first LEED Gold certified healthcare facility in Chicago, IL. The five-story facility offers outpatient care in orthopedics and sports medicine and houses approximately 60 examinations rooms, x-ray and imaging suites, and physical and occupational therapy facilities, as well as state-of-the-art research facilities serving the medical center’s Department of Orthopedic Surgery. (more…)

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Sustainability

Transparency in Manufacturing

Oscar Castillo January 9, 2016 at 1:38 pm 0

CENTRIA’s environmental product declarations set a trailblazing path for product life cycles.

CENTRIA released its first series of environmental product declarations (EPDs) in 2014 to review five of the company’s high-performance insulated metal wall panels. The continuing trend toward EPDs offers a major advantage to not only the customers, but the industry as a whole. (more…)

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Oscar Castillo

Duluth Transit Authority rolls out $27 million facility as a red carpet to passengers and pedestrians.

CENTRIA products are showcased on National Football League stadiums nationwide.

For an environment where durability and security are paramount, metal provides a functional and attractive solution.

CENTRIA system revitalizes high-rise multifamily property.

Mon Power Regional Headquarters showcases creative spark.

Great Lakes Research Center showcases the best in metal wall panel technology.

Orthopedic Ambulatory Building sparks medical center design transformation.

CENTRIA’s environmental product declarations set a trailblazing path for product life cycles.

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