The COVID-19 pandemic initially caused turbulence for the aviation industry, but the sector is soaring once again with a surge in commercial and private travel, resulting in increased demand for infrastructure, including aircraft hangar construction utilizing lightweight, durable, and thermally...
Insulated Metal Panels (IMPs) and the Soaring Aviation Market
Topics: Insulated Metal Panels, Construction
The A to Z of Insulated Metal Panels (IMPs) Market Segments
Insulated Metal Panels (IMPs) are a versatile design choice thanks to their energy efficiency, durability, flexibility, sustainability, and quick installation.
Topics: Cold Storage, Insulated Metal Panels, Metal Roofing
The Difference Between Structural Insulated Panels & Insulated Metal Panels
“SIPs and IMPs” may sound like a silly kid’s game, but structural insulated panels (SIPs) and insulated metal panels (IMPs) are far from child’s play when it comes to construction as they are popular building materials used to insulate structures.
While they may sound the same, SIPs and IMPs have...
Topics: Cold Storage, Insulated Metal Panels, Construction
Spoiler-Free Alert: Cold Storage’s Role in U.S. Agriculture Industry
One of the modern marvels of living in the United States is that we can sit down at the holidays and share meals of fresh food from across the country with menus featuring everything from Virginia hams to Maine lobsters to Wisconsin cheese to California vegetables to Florida fruit to Texas beef.
Topics: Cold Storage, Insulated Metal Panels, Green Span
Freedom of Choice: IMPs Have Vertical and Horizontal Applications
Green Span Profiles American-made insulated metal panels (IMPs) are impressive before they even leave the Texas facility where they are crafted by a continuously poured-in-place process that binds interior and exterior corrosion-resistant steel facings to a polyisocyanurate insulating foam core.
Topics: Insulated Metal Panels, Construction
IMPs Offer High-Performance and Design Choices for Roofing Solutions
Builders get the best of both worlds when using insulated metal panels (IMPs) for their roofing solutions as these standing-seam roof panels offer both high-performance and design choices.
Topics: Insulated Metal Panels, RidgeLine, Construction
Going Outside of Standard Sizing for Building Materials Can Be Costly
It’s no secret in the building industry that the cost of materials has soared over the past several years and current inflation rates continue to put upward pressure on overall construction costs.
Topics: Insulated Metal Panels, Green Span, Construction
AIA: Nonresidential Construction Spending to Increase Through 2023
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) mid-year Consensus Construction Forecast released in July projects that construction spending on nonresidential construction will increase 9.1 percent this year and another 6 percent in 2023.
Topics: Insulated Metal Panels, Construction
One of the big attractions of insulated metal wall panels and roofing systems is that their typical life span can double some of the competing material.
Insulated metal panels (IMPs) can deliver a much longer service life than shingles, single-play, and built up roofing.
Topics: Insulated Metal Panels, Green Span, Construction
First Line of Defense: IMPs Provide Thermal and Moisture Protection
When designing and constructing buildings today extreme weather must be taken into consideration.
Just this summer, for example, the United States experienced a sweltering heat wave across the country plus four separate flooding events that each qualify as 1-in-1,000 year rainstorms.
Topics: Cold Storage, Insulated Metal Panels, Construction