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Metal Building Products

Metal building products are lightweight, high-strength, and highly recyclable. Metal plays a significant role in the two main product segments of the commercial building market—roofs and panels.

Metal Roofs

Low-Slope Metal Roofs

Low-slope metal roofs are a preferred roof covering for commercial, institutional, and industrial buildings because of their ability to protect against the elements, allow water to drain away from the roof surface, and keep building contents and occupants dry and comfortable. Building owners and architects also recognize and appreciate other attributes of low-slope metal roofs—their long service life, low life-cycle cost, sustainability, recyclability, low maintenance requirements, light weight, and resistance to wind.

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Steep-Slope Metal Roofs

When building owners and architects require an attractive and affordable steep-slope roof covering for a commercial project, they are increasingly choosing a metal roof. Often defined as roofs with pitches of 3:12 or greater, steep-slope metal roofs have long been favored by environmentally sensitive building owners and architects who appreciate the roof’s aesthetic appeal, long service life, low maintenance requirements, light weight, and resistance to wind. For designers, the appeal of steep-slope metal roofs include their ability to effectively shed water and offer unlimited color, a wide range of standing-seam profiles, and 40 years of useful life.

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Metal Wall Panels

Insulated Metal Panels

Insulated metal panels help building owners and architects lower a building’s initial construction cost, as well as its long-term energy and maintenance costs. At one time, metal wall panels were insulated in the field. Then, about 35 years ago, a process was developed by which the panels could be pre-insulated in the plant. Today, the process involves injecting liquid insulating foam, usually polyurethane, between two metal face sheets, typically made of steel or aluminum.

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Preformed Metal Wall Panels

For decades, preformed or roll-formed metal wall panels provided a combination of economy, service, and design to building owners and architects. They still do today, if not more so, and the reasons are many. There is a wider selection of profiles due to improvements in the manufacturing process, and these panels have longer life spans because of developments in coating technology. Today, preformed panels are part of mainstream commercial building design.

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Metal Composite Panels

Building owners and architects aiming to make a design statement should look at today’s generation of metal composite materials for the exterior cladding of their structure. The high-tech image these wall panels can impart to a building because of their ability to be formed into various shapes can easily place a building “a cut above” the rest. The smooth, sleek material can be bent, curved, and joined together in an almost limitless range of geometric configurations. In addition, the panels exude a lustrous visual when they are initially installed and continue to do so for years with minimal maintenance.

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