{"id":24631,"date":"2024-01-25T16:21:32","date_gmt":"2024-01-25T21:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/roofingmagazine.com\/?p=24631"},"modified":"2024-02-21T12:19:01","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T17:19:01","slug":"raleigh-iron-works-breathes-new-life-into-former-industrial-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roofingmagazine.com\/raleigh-iron-works-breathes-new-life-into-former-industrial-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Raleigh Iron Works Breathes New Life Into Former Industrial Site"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Two buildings in a historic site in Raleigh, North Carolina, were recently transformed into a mixed-use activity center featuring retail shops, restaurants, event space, and offices. The adaptive re-use project was named for the original owner of the site \u2014 Raleigh Iron Works, which later became Peden Steel Company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The buildings include a bow truss structure from the early 1900s that formerly housed a steel fabrication facility, and a mid-century double-gable building that was an expansion of the facility. Most recently, the buildings served as a residential waste recycling center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Architects LS3P<\/a> and S9 Architecture<\/a> sought to build on the existing elements of the buildings to capture a modern industrial aesthetic in the design. A new roof system was essential, and the design team tapped the expertise of trusted industry partners to specify a metal roof that would provide long-term durability and become the crowning touch of the exterior.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The construction manager on the project, Brasfield & Gorrie<\/a>, teamed up with Hamlin Companies to help find the right metal roof system, notes Todd Smith, vice president, Hamlin Roofing Company<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe are basically a large industrial commercial roofing contractor,\u201d says Smith. \u201cWe do some retail. We do all sorts of roofing \u2014 we do single-ply, modified, standing seam, built-up.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe project manager on the job reached out to us, and I went out there and met them early on, when that building was still a recycling facility,\u201d says David Panella, manager of estimating at Hamlin Roofing Company. \u201cWe worked with them to determine what the owner\u2019s goals were, their intentions, and how we could best accomplish that. It was more or less a metal building shed at that point in time. We pushed them toward actually installing a traditional metal deck and reinforcing the roof structure. Once the new metal deck was in place, we would install insulation, ice and water shield, and standing seam panels.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n