3A Composites USA is pleased to announce that Alucobond® Aluminum Composite Material (ACM) 3-D Building Information Modeling (BIM) files – as well as two-dimensional Alucobond drawings and product specifications – now are available on Autodesk Seek.
Alucobond 3-D BIM files will be previewed at the Alucobond Booth No. 2913 at the 2015 Greenbuild International Conference and Expo Nov. 18-19 in Washington, D.C.
| Project Name: | Lincoln Park Centre |
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| Project Location: | Chicago, Illinois |
| Alucobond Materials: | Alucobond® Plus NaturAL Brushed Stainless |
| Architect: | Weiss Architects |
| Fabricator: | Sobotec Ltd. |
| Installer: | Architectural Panel Systems, Inc. |
| General Contractor: | Ernie Loberg Construction |
| Photography: | Paul Biasco and Architectural Panel Systems |
Lincoln Park Centre – a 61,000-square-foot retail shopping center located at the highly trafficked intersection of North and Clybourn avenues on Chicago’s north side – has undergone the kind of major changes in just a few short years that have made it a real-estate investment company’s dream venture.
| Project Name: | The Connor Group Headquarters |
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| Project Location: | Miamisburg, Ohio |
| Alucobond Materials: | Alucobond NaturAL Brushed Finish |
| Architect: | Moody Nolan |
| Fabricator: | Royalton Architectural Fabrication, Inc. |
| Installer: | Celina Glass Co., Inc. |
| General Contractor: | Messer Construction Co. |
| Photography: | Brad Feinknopf Photography & Daniel Lunghi (see copyright under photo) |
Executives at The Connor Group set high expectations for design of the national real-estate investment firm’s new Central Support Office building, which opened in Miamisburg, Ohio, in August 2014.
Purpose: Provides an overview of the versatility, sustainability, and functionality of aluminum composite material (ACM) and discusses why it is selected for architectural cladding, interiors, and signage applications in new and existing buildings around the world.
| Project Name: | Toro Headquarters |
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| Project Location: | Bloomington, Minnesota |
| Alucobond Materials: | Alucobond NaturAL Rusted Metal and NaturAL Brushed Graphite |
| Architect: | Leo A Daly |
| Fabricator: | Metal Design Systems, Inc. |
| General Contractor: | Ryan Companies Us, Inc. |
| Cladding Contractor: | InterClad of Egan Co. |
| Photography: | Mike Herbst courtesy of EBP, LLC and Bill Baxley, AIA |
The Toro Company celebrated its 100th anniversary July 10, 2014, at its world headquarters’ campus in Bloomington, Minn., shortly after unveiling a new three-story 75,000-square foot building designed to provide expanded product development and testing areas as well as office, training and conference spaces.
| Project Name: | The Vancouver Aquarium Expansion |
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| Project Location: | Vancouver, British Columbia |
| Alucobond Materials: | Alucobond Spectra Sakura and Custom River Zinc Metallic |
| Architect: | Musson Cattell Mackey Partnership (MCMP) |
| Fabricator: | Keith Panel Systems Co. Ltd. |
| General Contractor: | PCL Constructors Westcoast, Inc. |
| Photography: | Ema Peter and Keith Panel Systems Co. Ltd. |
The Vancouver Aquarium’s $45-million renovation and expansion was unveiled in June 2014 in Vancouver, British Columbia’s Stanley Park as the most significant expansion in the 58-year history of Canada’s largest marine science center. Designed to evoke the flow of water and the wonder of aquatic life, the new two-story 55,000 square-foot aquarium building features a curvilinear architectural design that is clad in sophisticated color-changing aluminum composite material (ACM) mimicking fish scales in hues ranging from green to pink.
