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Welcome to the MillerClapperton Friday5 e-newsletter where you will stay up to date on all the industry news and updates, as well as what we are working on here at MillerClapperton in 5 quick points!
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To close out the summer and kick off the start of college football, MillerClapperton will be hosting its 4th annual MillerClapperton Cornhole Tournament this Friday. This event brings together MillerClapperton employees from all five branches for an afternoon filled with food, fun, music, and cornhole.
Check in on us throughout the day for photos and videos of this year’s tournament on FACEBOOK, TWITTER, and INSTAGRAM.
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Ensure that 4mm is listed as the material thickness. Yes, there are other thicknesses like 3mm, 6mm, even 8mm, but they all have more negatives than positives. But remember, the thickness of the aluminum skins remains the same. The only thing that changes between each thickness is the depth of the core material.
The most obvious negatives are: they cost more, they have minimum order requirements, they have setup charges, and they have longer lead times. 4mm is the architectural industry standard thickness, it is readily available and usually stocked in most/all standard colors. |
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Recently the Metal Construction Association has released a white paper focusing on Metal Composite Material (MCM) meeting code requirements. MCM suppliers, fabricators, and installers must provide assurances that both the MCM and MCM assemblies will meet the requirements defined in the applicable building code. Typically, these requirements are defined in the code through reference to established testing in the areas of structural, fire, energy, and environmental (air and water penetration) performance. The primary question is how can a designer be assured that the MCM supplied to the project meet these performance requirements? Review this WHITE PAPER along with many other technical resources on the Metal Construction Association website.
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College Football Hall of Fame
Since this weekend is the start of college football, we would like to feature one of MillerClapperton’s most iconic projects, the College Football Hall of Fame, located just down the street in Atlanta, GA. The College Football Hall of Fame was completed in 2014 and won Best of the Best in Sports/Entertainment by Engineering News-Record in 2015.
The most attractive and interesting feature of this building is the 80′ rotunda which looks like a football standing on end – clad with 41,000 sq ft of MCM panels in 3 custom colors. MillerClapperton engineered, fabricated and installed the panels on this project’s most prominent and complex structure. We also installed over 8,800 sq ft of champagne colored, perforated deep rib Hefti-Rib panels on the parking deck abutting the Hall of Fame – adding interest to an otherwise bland concrete parking deck structure and integrating well with the rest of the building. LEED BD+C Silver 2015. |
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College Football Hall of Fame
Location: Atlanta, GA
Material: Metal Composite Material, Profiled Single Skin
Product: Reynobond, Fabral
Architect: tvsdesign
General Contractors: Brasfield & Gorrie, LLC
Fabricator: MillerClapperton
Installer: MillerClapperton
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Defense Intelligence Agency Parking Garage
MillerClapperton is nearing completion of the installation of over 50,000 square feet of MCM on the new parking garage for the Defense Intelligence Agency complex at Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling in Washington D.C. This project will add 681 parking spaces for DIA employees to supplement current surface lot parking.
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Defense Intelligence Agency Parking Garage
Location: Washington, D.C.
Material: Metal Composite Material
Product: Reynobond by Arconic
General Contractor: Manhattan Construction Company
Architect: Clark Nexsen, Virginia Beach, VA
Fabricator: MillerClapperton
Installer: MillerClapperton
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Do you have something you would like us to feature on future MillerClapperton Friday 5 emails? If so, please let us know by emailing us at info@millerclapperton.com.
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