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A 1,100-foot stainless steel ribbon is being installed around the building, making the NASCAR Hall of Fame identifiable.
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President and CEO Bill Zahner is featured in the August Issue of Wired Magazine, where he has now been dubbed, the "Alpha Geek" of Metal.
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The new crown for the Kansas City Royals brings a little sparkle back to Kauffman Stadium.
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The NASCAR Hall of Fame project reached 1,000,000 man-hours without a "lost-time" accident milestone recently. In recognition for Zahner's achievement TBEKD presented a plaque to Zahner
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Bill Zahner is named an Honorary Member of the American Institute of Architects.
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Anything that can be drawn, we can build, with ZEPPS™

The ZEPPS™ Process is complex digital engineering, yielding the blueprints for streamlined construction and limitless design. The process gives designers confidence that their structure can be built, without compromise.

ZEPPS™ stands for Zahner Engineered Profiled Panel Systems. The end result of this process is a facade with a smooth profile, each panel aligning with the next panel on the same plane, so that the total effect is s smooth form.


EMP During Construction, Revealing ZEPPS™ Process.

Experience Music Project, Completed.

The whole ZEPPS™ Process revolves around precision. Engineers match the architect's designs using the latest CAD technologies. Digital production technologies allow the structures to be created in our controlled facility. This allows for the elimination of labor intensive field fabrication and field-related inconsistencies, because entire structures are built in house to be assembled on site.

ZEPPS™ assembly is quicker than build-in-place wall systems, allowing the building envelope to be sealed significantly quicker, thus expediting the construction process, saving money and time.  ZEPPS™ can be engineered from a variety of metals that provide varying degrees of structural value and unlimited design options.

Our most recent completed project using the ZEPPS™ Process is the Nascar Hall of Fame in Charlotte, North Carolina. A massive mobius strip is cantilevered from the main building, wrapping around and twisting, something that only the ZEPPS™ Process can accomplish.


CAD Rendering of ZEPPS™ on the NASCAR Hall of Fame.

Mobius Strip during construction.

The pictures above show the blueprints for creating this dual curved, twisting and curving form, and it's connection which allows it to seamlessly lock into the wall at the top-right. This section is made up of several ZEPPS™ Components, each panel lining up with the next.

The ZEPPS™ Process isn't all Twists and Curves

Of all of the ZEPPS™ Projects we've completed, the most unique by far is the crown on the top of 400 Fifth Avenue, a skyscraper being constructed in New York City. This project unique in that it's form is not overtly complex or curving -- it is a fairly simple trapezoidal panel system, but the ZEPPS™ Process was used to simplify the process, reducing the danger of working at several hundred feet in the air by reducing the number of workers and eliminating several precarious steps.

Completed Projects

The ZEPPS™ process was used in context on a number of projects, including the Pritzker at Chicago's Millennium Park; the the Fisher Performing Arts Center at Bard College; BOK Center in Tulsa Oklahoma; the Neiman Marcus in Natick Massachusetts; the Tacoma Museum of Glass in Washington; the Ray and Maria Stata Center at MIT; and most recently, the Art Gallery of Alberta in Canada and the NASCAR Hall of Fame in Charlotte, North Carolina. We are also currently constructing a few projects including the Ohr-O'Keefe Museum in Biloxi, Mississippi; and the Miami Intermodal Center, a massive project using the ZEPPS™ Process.