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Durable Metal Roof Covers the Country's Most Sustainable, High-Altitude Building

	AUGUST 2022
	THE METAL BLUEPRINT

DURABLE METAL ROOF COVERS THE COUNTRY'S MOST SUSTAINABLE, HIGH-ALTITUDE BUILDING

Preserving a piece of American history, the new Pikes Peak Summit Complex replaces an old, bunker-like center on top of the 14,115 ft. "America's Mountain" in Cascade, Colo. where poet Katharine Lee Bates was inspired to write the patriotic song "America the Beautiful" in 1893.

Designed to achieve both LEED Silver and Living Building Challenge certification and be the most sustainable, high altitude building in the U.S., RTA Architects and GWWO Architects had to highly scrutinize every product and material going into the 6,200 sq.-ft. visitor center to meet the materials petal requirements for the stringent seven-petal Living Building Challenge.

Used as an important teaching tool for the students, the Fibonacci formula is a string of digits where each number is the sum of the two preceding ones. By integrating these values into the size of the IMP panels and windows, the façade achieves what's called the Golden Ratio of visually appealing proportions, creating a sense of harmony for the subconscious mind.

Further, with below freezing temperatures the majority of the year, heavy snow loads of 125 lbs. per sq. ft. and winds reaching 170 mph, the Colorado Springs roofing contractor Weathercraft needed a highly durable and robust metal roofing system to withstand the extreme weather conditions.

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