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Metal Architecture
Wednesday | 17 November, 2021 | 10:55 am

David L. Lawrence Convention Center

Owner

Sports & Exhibition Authority of Pittsburgh and Allegheny County

Architects

Rafael Vinoly Architects, New York
Burt Hill Kosar Rittleman Associates, Pittsburgh

PPG Products

PPG DURANAR® Coatings
PPG PURE PERFORMANCE® Paint

Project Overview

The David L. Lawrence Convention Center opened in Pittsburgh in 2003 as the world’s first certified green convention center. Today, it remains one of the largest LEED® Gold-certified buildings in the world.

Encompassing more than 1.5 million square feet of exhibit and meeting space, the building is a foremost example of an architect integrating the full spectrum of PPG architectural coatings and paints into a single building. 

In this instance, the primary goal of the architect was to create an environmentally advanced structure that would repay its energy investment in less than 10 years. The building features a number of energy saving features, including a cooling plant that runs on water drawn from an underground aquifer; natural cross ventilation created by river currents collected by the center’s swooping roofline; and a gray water system that recycles half the center’s water, saving an estimated 6.5 million gallons of water a year.

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Duranar coatings have provided the David L. Lawrence Convention Center with a more sustainable and durable solution for its metal roof and wall panels.

Unconventional Coatings

Used inside and outside, PPG coatings and paints were instrumental to the environmental performance of the building. On the exterior metal building panels and skylights, various shades of PPG DURANAR® coatings provide extended durability, which reduced the need for repainting and other kinds of maintenance.

Trusted for over 50 years as a corrosion-inhibitive primer and fluoropolymer topcoat, Duranar delivers outstanding aesthetics and durability to metal roof and wall panels, and the David L. Lawrence Convention Center is no exception. Duranar coil coating systems meet or exceed FGIA/AAMA 2605 weathering performance requirements and feature PPG-proprietary resin and pigment technologies with 70% fluoropolymer base resins. This industry leading coating delivers proven resistance to color fading, acid rain, ultraviolet rays, chipping and peeling.

Indoors, zero- and low-emitting paints and coatings such as Pittsburgh Paints’ Pure Performance® paint reduce exposure to airborne toxins while helping to create an attractive meeting and convention environment.

A large percentage of materials used to construct the building, including those from PPG, were manufactured with recycled content and within a 500-mile radius of Pittsburgh.

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Company Profiles

AIR FILTRATION

DEBURRING/FINISHING

NESTING SOFTWARE

SOFTWARE

Camfil APC - Equipment

ARKU

ATI Industrial Automation

4GL Solutions

Metamation Inc.

 Lissmac Corp. NICKEL ALLOY  Enmark Systems Inc.
Camfil APC - Replacement Filters  Osborn Sandmeyer Steel Company  Lantek Systems Inc.
Supermax Tools

PLASMA TECHNOLOGY

SigmaTEK Systems LLC

ALUMINUM

Timesavers
Messer Cutting Systems Inc.
Richardson Metals, Inc.

 

IDENTIFICATION/TRACKING

InfoSight

PLATE

BEVELING

Churchill Steel Plate
Steelmax Tools LLC

IRONWORKERS

Peddinghaus

STAINLESS STEEL

    Sandmeyer Steel Company  

COIL PROCESSING

Trilogy Machinery Inc.

PLATE & ANGLE ROLLS

Heyco Metals

Sandmeyer Steel Company

ANDRITZ Metals USA Inc.

LASER TECHNOLOGY

Trilogy Machinery Inc.

STEEL

Braner USA Inc. AMADA AMERICA Inc.

PRESS BRAKE TOOLING

Alliance Steel
Burghardt + Schmidt Group MC Machinery Systems Inc. Rolleri USA North American Steel Alliance
Butech Bliss TRUMPF Inc.

PRESS BRAKES

TITANIUM

Red Bud Industries

MATERIAL HANDLING

MC Machinery Systems Inc.

Sandmeyer Steel Company

InfoSight

The Bradbury Group EMH Crane

PUNCHING

TUBE & PIPE

Tishken Fehr Warehouse Solutions Inc. Hougen Manufacturing BLM Group

CONVEYOR SYSTEMS

Steel Storage Systems

SAWING

HGG Profiling Equipment Inc.
      National Tube Supply
Mayfran International UFP Industrial Advanced Machine & Engineering Prudential Stainless & Alloys

COPPER & BRASS

MEASUREMENT & QUALITY CONTROL

Behringer Saws Inc.

WATERJET TECHNOLOGY

Concast Metal Products Co. Advanced Gauging Technologies Cosen Saws Barton International
Copper and Brass Servicenter Association

METAL FABRICATING MACHINERY

DoALL Sawing Products Jet Edge Waterjet Systems
Farmers Copper Cincinnati Inc. HE&M Saw Omax Corp.
  LVD Strippit Savage Saws

ZINC

  Scotchman Industries

SERVICE CENTERS

Jarden Zinc Products
  Trilogy Machinery Inc. Admiral Steel  
    Alliance Steel  

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