The company’s new manufacturing and office facility in Portsmouth, N.H., constructed with insulated metal panels, reflects that bold and durable design.
The facility, which is designed to serve the broader community as much as its own employees, uses its metal roof as a calling card, because nothing says “natural gas utility” more obviously than 13,500 square-feet of metal panels finished in gas-flame blue.
The 5,000-square-foot building housing the visitor center looks like an updated (and oversized) version of the farm buildings that might have been seen in the region during the early 1900s, with board-and-batten siding and, of course, a metal roof.
The team selected mini clamps to secure solar panels to the standing seam metal roof of the manufacturing facility, allowing for a rail-less PV mounting solution.
Sheet Metal Supply Ltd., a leading fabricator/supplier of custom perimeter edge systems, introduces the MegaLock 2 Radius System for curved perimeter edges.
Standing Seam Shingle and Monarch Batten Seam, metal panels manufactured by ATAS International, have long been used for metal roofing. Recently, they have been adopted for use as metal wall cladding.