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Construction Design & Engineering
Posted: September 18, 2007
Metro West Steel providing design/build services on 53 current projects; includes $2.5m old wood mill renovation
Metro West Steel a design/build firm with two structural engineers, six project managers, ten draftsmen, four detailers, 20 structural fabricators, have a busy road ahead while running 53 jobs at this current time. Jobs ranging from miscellaneous stairs and rails to full blown design/build structural projects. Between all these jobs Metro West Steel offers one-of-a-kind million dollar service with every project. With our staff and our highly automated fabrication facility, Metro West Steel is able to offer one-of-a-kind million dollar service with every project.
Big projects in process are renovations of an old wood mill on the north shore totaling $2.5 million in structural steel expects completion by the first of the new year. Design/build $2.2 million project like the new BMW Gallery on Rte. 1 Norwood is nearing completion of its structural requirements, and is soon to be ready for phase 2 of Dri-Design metal panels to complete the rain-screen system. Dri-Design is a single skin, painted, no hassle installation product that is being offered to the BMW Gallery with custom BMW white and grey Kynar paint!
PolyRack Rhode Island in the Highland Corporate Park is nearing its completion of its $1.1 million contract as a design/build project with Dri-Design exterior panel system. Dri-Design is being offered on this building with two colors blue and white. The standard nominal joint lines between panels of 5/8" have been reduced to 1/8" vertical joint lines. Project expects completion with Dri-Design metal panels by the second week of October. PolyRack is a German based company that has brought there business to be manufactured here in the northeast hassle free through the help of well-respected general contractor, New England Construction.
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