News & Updates

The Steven Spielberg-produced documentary Rising: Rebuilding Ground Zero features Snøhetta's September 11th Memorial Museum, stainless steel cladding by Zahner.

Announcing the Zahner-KME joint venture for the European Market. Read the Press Release at the JV site. Zahner-KME in Joint Venture

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The Zahner App is now available for iPhone. Features hundreds of projects by artists and architects. iPhone App

Zahner Campus North Dock Expansion has won the Monsters of Design Honor Award; designed by Crawford Architects' Stephen Colin and Michael O'Donnell.

The North American Copper Awards has recognized Zahner's copper metal-work for the Waipolu Gallery in Oahu, Hawaii.

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Announcing the winners for the Biennial ZAHNER + KCAI Art and Sculpture Competition at KCAI.

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Tessellate™ kinetic metal surfaces by Zahner and ABI released: visually stunning and environmentally responsible.

Bill Zahner named an Honorary Member of the American Institute of Architects.

Introducing the Hands of the Artist™ division, where Zahner engineers and craftsmen produce projects for artists.
Visit Zahner's Hands of the Artist website

Kauffman Center for Performing Arts, during construction.

ZEPPS™ Process

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.

 

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.

 

The pictures above show the blueprints for creating this dual curved, twisting and curving form, and its 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.

Using ZEPPS™ without curves.

There are a few projects completed using the ZEPPS™ Process which have no curvatures. One such project is 400 Fifth Avenue, a skyscraper in New York City whose crown required an intelligent and efficient installation.

This project's form is not overtly complex or curving, 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.

Using the ZEPPS™ Process for this project also reduced the amount of time spent installing the finished panels. This is true of all projects built using the ZEPPS™ Process. There are some cases where the entire installation process took less than a week. When building in New York or other dense cities, every day spent on the jobsite costs clients tens of thousands of dollars. By pre-engineering the wall panel systems, the time spent is drastically reduced.

Select Projects completed with the ZEPPS™ Process

The ZEPPS™ process was used in context on a number of projects, including hi-rises and more.

Small and Unique projects completed with ZEPPS™

Zahner has begun to expand the process as a tool to produce sculptures and medium to large sized forms by artists. We have also used the ZEPPS™ Process on complex projects requiring high altitude installations and rapid-construction processes.

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