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CENTRIA Products Add Modernity and Sharpness to Pointe at Polaris Community
Design Innovation
CENTRIA Products Add Modernity and Sharpness to Pointe at Polaris Community
December 16, 2019 at 8:00 am 0

Along the Polaris Highway in Columbus, OH, sits the Pointe at Polaris — a vibrant, modern, mixed-use community. It features inviting green spaces, entertainment, shopping, and places to live, all in a 20-acre tract of land. CENTRIA panels were used across the structure as part of Phase I of the project. This was comprised of a three-story, 106,000 square-foot office/retail/restaurant building; a four-story, 569 space parking garage, and a four-story, 216 unit apartment building, all of which opened in 2018. Phase II, not yet complete, will include another office building, a parking garage, an equivalent apartment building, and a hotel.

“We specified the metal panels for use on the exterior of our buildings to give them a modern feel, and we chose CENTRIA because the panels were quick to install and presented the clean look we desired,” says Tom Linzell, Senior Project Manager, M+A architects, the firm responsible for the design.

This highly collaborative project – a must due to its size and scope – featured CENTRIA products. Two different hues of the Intercept™ Entyre series were selected and specified – 15,000 square feet in total – in addition to CENTRIA MR3-36 Screen in one color for the building’s exterior.

“The overall structure was intended to have a contemporary look, which harkens back to mid-century modern design,” says Linzell. “The panels we chose match this aesthetic, and the wide range of colors was also highly appealing to our design team.”

Intercept is a modular metal wall panel system that allows for design versatility by incorporating different substrates, depths, slopes, curves and perforations into an easy-to-install rainscreen. The lightweight, back-ventilated system combines aesthetics with function, directing water away from your structure, without using sealants of any kind.

The system's modular design lends itself to installation in either vertical or horizontal applications. Intercept panels are available in the standard coil-coated aluminum substrate, as well as post-anodized aluminum, zinc, and other natural metals.

Phase I of Pointe at Polaris was completed in early 2019. M+A architects were responsible for design services, and the CENTRIA dealer was Hemm’s Glass Shops, Inc.

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Pittsburgh Mixed-Use Building Enhanced with CENTRIA Formawall®
Design Innovation
Pittsburgh Mixed-Use Building Enhanced with CENTRIA Formawall®
August 6, 2019 at 8:00 am 0

CENTRIA® Formawall® enhances downtown Pittsburgh’s Tower 260 mixed use building by contributing to striking asymmetrical design elements. The approximately

430,000 square foot development reinvigorates the downtown area with its visually-compelling profile and its capacity for new business, entertainment, and residences.

“The site shape is a classic result of an era when buildings were demolished to be replaced by parking lots wedged among the surviving buildings,” says Arquitectonica, the architecture and design firm responsible for this project. “This building exemplifies urban regeneration.”

Approximately 54,000 square feet of Formawall High Performance Building Envelope System aided in the final design of Tower 260. The panels were specified with a smooth finish in Sundance™ Mica. This enabled the firm to achieve its multi-prism design vision across several volumes.

“CENTRIA Formawall was a good fit for this project – the panels’ modular nature helped significantly with lay-out and installation,” says Tom Haught, Vice President, A.C. Dellovade, the CENTRIA dealer and installer. “The panel lengths were manageable - 12’-14’ – which made it very easy to move the material around the site while allowing A.C. Dellovade to keep our manpower down to basically 2- or 3-man crews.”

CENTRIA Formawall systems are durable, aesthetically-unique, and contain no red-list ingredients. Formawall consolidates up to six components found in common wall assemblies into just one, and its distinct profiles deliver unlimited design combinations.

Tower 260 has seven floors of Class A office space, a 330-car parking garage, and is home to the Hilton Garden Inn Pittsburgh Downtown. Restaurants in the building include Revel + Roost, Pizzuvio, and Millie’s Homemade Ice Cream. The building is LEED® Certified™ Silver, and tenants include JLL, the anchor tenant, and Merrill-Lynch.

The firm responsible for the design was Arquitectonica, and the general contractor was Turner Construction. The CENTRIA dealer and installer was A.C. Dellovade Inc. The building was completed in 2016.

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Dealer Project Excellence Awards
Panel Discussion
Dealer Project Excellence Awards
February 11, 2019 at 6:44 pm 0

CENTRIA is proud to announce the 2018 winners of the bi-annual Dealer Project Excellence Awards. Launched in 1999, the Dealer Project Excellence Awards program is a way to recognize members of CENTRIA’s elite Dealer Network for their outstanding commitment to providing quality architectural product solutions and installation expertise. The awards also allow CENTRIA to showcase a growing portfolio of impressive projects that feature CENTRIA’s innovative high-performance building envelope systems.  

CENTRIA’s Dealer Network includes more than 100 highly trained companies nationwide. Our dealers have hands-on product installation experience and participate in extensive training on a regular basis. CENTRIA offers complete enclosure packages and continuous factory training, allowing each and every member of the Dealer Network to deliver high-quality installation for large and small projects of all kinds. This powerful combination of training and experience helps ensure that projects are delivered on time and on budget.

Members of CENTRIA’s Dealer Network also offer building teams a number of exclusive benefits, such as project budget pricing, constructability reviews, scheduling, bonding and much more. With the backing of CENTRIA’s quality products, trained CENTRIA Dealers provide superior construction service to building owners and architects throughout the world. The Dealer Network is vital to CENTRIA’s success as an industry leader, and CENTRIA is pleased to recognize their continued commitment and impressive achievements.

Amusement, Social & Recreation
P.J. Avitto Community Center
Brooklyn, NY
Long Island Tinsmith Supply Corp. (LITSCO)

Arenas & Stadiums
Twin Cities Orthopedics Performance Center
Eagan, MN
IWR North America, LLC

Education – Higher Ed
Drake University - STEM Science Connector Building
Des Moines, IA
SGH Concepts

Education – K-12
Montour Elementary School
McKees Rocks, PA
Essig-McClure, Inc.

Government
Army Aviation Support Facility
Kankakee, IL
G&L Associates, Inc.

Healthcare
VA San Jose Community Outpatient Clinic
San Jose, CA
Blackwood-DLE

Hotels & Multi-Residential
Fannie Emanuel Apartments
Chicago, IL
Crown Corr, Inc.

Manufacturing Plants, Warehouses & Labs
Ben & Jerry’s
St. Albans, VT
Compass Construction

Offices & Banks
American Greetings Creative Studios and Headquarters
Westlake, OH
A.C. Dellovade, Inc.

Other/Misc.
Humane Society of Missouri
Best Buddy Pet Center
St. Louis, MO
Mays Maune McWard, Inc.

Power Plants, Gas & Communication
Clariant
Louisville, KY
South State Contractors, Inc.

Religious
Brightmoor Church
Novi, MI
C.L. Rieckhoff Co., Inc.

Retrofit
Clemson University – Littlejohn Coliseum
Clemson, SC
Steel-Clad, Inc.

Stores & Restaurant
The Pointe at Polaris
Columbus, OH
Hemm’s Glass Shops, Inc.

Transportation
Broadcom Parking Garage
San Jose, CA
B.T. Mancini Co., Inc.

People’s Choice Award
Twin Cities Orthopedics Performance Center
Eagan, MN
IWR North America, LLC

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Construction Spotlight
Panel Discussion
Construction Spotlight
April 11, 2018 at 7:40 pm 0

Navy Federal Credit Union Campus showcases turnkey design and performance.

The world's largest credit union turned to a single-source metal building envelope system by CENTRIA for its massive, $195 million expansion project.

Navy Federal Credit Union made plans for a multi-phase expansion of its Pensacola, FL campus to meet the demands of immense business growth in recent years. The first phase of the expansion includes a three-story office building, a central energy plant and a five-level, 347,500-square-foot parking deck.

The second phase, currently under construction, incorporates additional office facilities. The project also encompasses surface parking as well as bridges, roads, walking paths, stormwater retention features and other infrastructure.

Designed by multi-disciplinary architectural firm ASD | SKY to meet LEED Silver certification standards, the office buildings rely on CENTRIA’s MetalWrap insulated composite backup panels as the primary building envelope component. This highly sustainable backup system integrates seamlessly with CENTRIA's Intercept modular metal panels for the best in performance and aesthetics.  

Intercept Entyre panels, showcased in both an aluminum substrate and zinc from RHEINZINK, deliver exceptionally modern aesthetics to the state-of-the-art office facilities. The Intercept system provides a unique level of aesthetic variation in panel size and shape. The light-gauge, monolithic aluminum sheets offer an economical solution for complex panel applications.

Designers also incorporated CENTRIA’s Paradigm rainscreen panels with MicroSeam Corners. This unique product allows architects to choose from CENTRIA’s library of standard shapes or tailor a project-specific profile with customized module parameters, including panel depth and rib count, geometry, and spacing. The ability to create a unique building façade with limitless polygonal rib designs permits a new level of variation in shadow relief.

Intercept and Paradigm panels available as a total rainscreen wall system when combined with MetalWrap insulated composite backup panels. MetalWrap panels are designed with CENTRIA’s innovative advanced thermal and moisture protection (ATMP) technology to control water and maximize thermal efficiency. As the inner layer of the rainscreen system, MetalWrap panels provide defense against harsh weather conditions. And the single-component insulated composite backup panels expedite installation and close-in time requirements—especially vital in Florida’s rainy, humid climate.  

MetalWrap Integrated Series features integral attachment systems—including the MR-100 and MR-300 rail systems as well as integral clips, pintles and/or masonry anchors—for ease of installation of any cladding material such as metal, terra cotta, ACM panels, brick facades and other rainscreens. This aesthetic flexibility makes it the perfect choice for mixed-medium exteriors. The product offers 2” and 3” thicknesses to provide thermal performance for even the most demanding projects.

Installers from FLC Systems are hard at work at the Navy Federal Credit Union campus as construction continues. Their expertise with the product accelerates installation time to produce a weathertight barrier, making way for interior tradesmen to work on the office interior. All told, the finished project will incorporate more than 500,000 square feet of CENTRIA metal wall panels.

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Aesthetic and Technological Advantage
Design Innovation
Aesthetic and Technological Advantage
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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