Located just outside the boundary of the Albany International Airport, Mobile Air Transport in Latham, N.Y., is an air-to-ground shipping company that has a great reputation for delivering items for customers on time. When the company outgrew its original 20-door facility, it used Eufaula, Ala.-based American Buildings Co. to expand the flagship terminal. The project included a 5,500-square-foot (511-m2) conventional addition along with a 5,000-square-foot (465-m2) renovation of the existing office spaces. The company also added on an additional 24 doors to help get the trucks loaded and on the road.
Completed in August 2007, American Buildings designed a simple, fly-rafter system to support the existing lightweight rafters to remove the columns of the existing nonexpandable column and beam endwall building, creating unobstructed floor space. The final building was 60 feet (18 m) long by 165 feet (50 m) wide with 17 1/12-foot (5-m) eave heights and a total of 9,900 square feet (920 m2). The project utilized a spandrel braced, 60-foot (18-m) clear span, gable rigid framed building with a Standing Seam II roof and 5-foot (2-m) finished overhangs on both sidewalls to protect the dock shelters. The galvanized metal architectural standing-seam roof was coated with 70 percent PVDF resin supplied as Kynar 500 or Hylar 500 by BASF, Florham Park, N.J. The galvanized Architectural III wall panels in Blue Gray with Slate Gray trims were coated in BASF’s SmartKote 70 percent PVDF resin supplied as Kynar 500 or Hylar 500.
Paone Architecture PC, Saratoga Springs, N.Y., and Munter Enterprises Inc., Middle Grove, N.Y., were the architects on the project. Munter Enterprises was also the general contractor and metal installer.
