Metal 'Tile Panel' Roofing Saves $150k In Police Facility Construction

摘要

When the building team set out to plan a new police facility in Gilroy, California, the original design called for a concrete tile mansard to match the existing roofs in the neighboring Gilroy civic center. Upon finding that the project was over budget, one of the cost-cutting measures adopted by the architect was to replace the concrete tile with a metal "tile panel" facsimile system from Met-Tile, Inc., Ontario, California.rnAccording to Frank Cuomo, senior project architect at WLC Architects (Rancho Cu-camonga, California), "Met-Tile gave us the look we wanted but at a much lower cost, and its reduced weight also lightened the structure so that we could value-engineer the building's steel frame to accommodate lighter loads. We were able to save around $150,000 in structural and roof system costs without compromising aesthetics."