Magnificent Metal Monday

by Lismany Medinaarchitects, design & build, steel, steel fabricator, steel manufacturer, steel manufacturers, structural steel, Things to do in Atlanta, UncategorizedPosted on 0 comments

What has 1,100 tons of reinforcing steel (the same weight as 55 whale sharks) and 206 tons of structural steel (about 8,240 emperor penguins)? The new $100 million expansion at the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta, Georgia, that’s what! The largest aquarium in the western hemisphere is staged to grow even bigger with the expansion expected …

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Metal Roofing…I don’t see it

by Lismany Medinaarchitects, build with metal, Business Growth, construction, construction contractor, construction education, construction problems, construction treasures, contractors, copper, denver, design & build, design and build, design and build professionals, education, Energy Efficiency, erectors, EuropeanMarket, EuropeanMetal, mbcea, Metal building contractors, metal building erectors, METAL BUILDINGS, Metal is Green, metal manufacturers, Metal Roofing, METALCON, METALCON 101, METALCON Education, METALCON Speakers, METALCON2014, MetalInEurope, Recyclability, Recycle, roof materials, roofing materials, steel, steel fabricator, steel manufacturer, steel manufacturers, sustainability, Things to do in AtlantaPosted on 0 comments

So I have been meaning to write about this for quite a while now. I wanted to discuss why I don’t see a lot of metal roofs here in the Boston area and why it isn’t as prevalent as it is in other parts of the United States. Let’s start with my one assumption

100th Blog Post

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I realized that our blog has officially hit 100 posts so we’ve decided we should celebrate the fact that we have reached that impressive number! We always welcome contributions to the

Many Failures Involving Metal Building Systems and Metal Roofs

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So here we have an interesting photo of a bridge that looks like a wreck. Anyhow, we see that there is concrete degradation, metal corrosion, fatigue and fracture with this bridge. So what leads to this