To complete a boathouse metal roof design in northern Wisconsin last summer, quality design, materials and craftsmanship came together to create an attractive, watertight system. 

The Metal Construction Association named six outstanding building projects from around the country.

Submit photos of your best sheet metal fabrication work, and see your photos published in an upcoming issue of SNIPS Magazine.

Beyond aesthetics, the exposed fastener metal panel system provided an economical solution and the material is basically maintenance free.

Middle school students at Mill Creek in Kent, Washington, are benefiting from a call their science teacher, Steven Basten, recently made to the Hermanson Company.

Cass Sheet Metal restores the architectural sheet metal at the Book Tower.

“Designing today isn’t just about structural integrity. It’s about a building’s impact on the environment, and what type of visual style it can express,” says Thomas Passek, president of the Copper Development Association Inc. 

About 20 percent of SMACNA’s membership work in the architectural sheet metal sector. However, that number increases annually with the demand for more exterior and interior architectural metal construction projects.

For the bank's newest branch in St. Marys, Georgia, the project incorporated 9,500 square feet. of .032-gauge Petersen’s Snap-Clad panels finished in Interstate Blue and 2,000 square feet of 0.32-gauge flush wall panels finished in Silver.

A new partnership between SMACNA and the American Institute of Architecture Students will give architectural sheet metal a new view.