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

Zahner completed the New Academic Building at Cooper Union in New York City. See the time-lapse construction video at Videos & Downloads.

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. Read Article

Alpha Geek Bill Zahner holding Metal Sheets

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 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.
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Taubman Museum

Taubman Museum

The City of Roanoke is situated in the surrounding mountainous landscape of the Shenandoah Valley, the Blue Ridge Mountains, and the Appalachian Mountains. A quiety and traditional city, it seemed hardly the obvious location for an unquestionably contemporary new Taubman Museum, but that was exactly the point.  The Museum wanted a cutting edge new museum for the city. Designed by Randall Stout Architects, Zahner® was responsible for engineering, fabrication, and installation of the Taubman Museum, fabricating all exterior metal facades.

The earth-toned metal surrounding much of the surface of both the exterior and interior of the Taubman is actually a custom-patina product that Zahner refined for the museum, called Roano™ Preweathered Zinc, a surface well-known for being stable against weathering.

The stainless steel surface was made possible by the ZEPPS™ Process, which simplified the construction process for the otherwise complex geometry of the structure. Zahner engineered the project using digital definition technologies which more than payed for itself when errors were caught in the plans. The surface of the lightly reflective metal is our Angel Hair™ Mechanical Finish on Stainless steel.