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Rob Pelletier Construction, Inc. Houston Texas

Rob Pelletier Construction, Inc.

[email protected]
p (281) 227-3577
Central Texas: (512) 962-9522
10189 FM 1960• Dayton, TX 77535

Mexican Radio

Located in Oklahoma City’s Plaza District, Mexican Radio specializes in two things: tacos and cold drinks. The newly opened concept restaurant conceived by A Good Egg Dining Group occupies a lively, fun space.
 
The property’s major restoration includes a covered outdoor dining area. There, a translucent vaulted canopy crowns the space in a swirl of bright colors. Inspired by a colorful fine art glass installation, the owners and architect collaborated to find the right solution.
 
The canopy adds more than just a bright accent for diners: It creates an additional dining space that protects diners from the elements and makes the space useful nearly year ’round.

Kitchen at Commonplace – Gardner Architects by Mel Willis

Potomac School

Nestled into a hillside campus, structures at the Potomac School – an independent private day school in McLean, Virginia – share a common vocabulary of stone, stucco, glass and wood. In design of a new indoor athletic facility there, it was essential that the building bring in the lush setting and as much natural light as possible.
 
“A healthy building needs natural light,” says architect Ken Wiseman, design principal at Cannon Design. “The building was going to be on a spectacular site, but we had to find a way to bring the light in, and we wanted a very clean façade overall.” Turning to an innovative, sustainable solution, the design team selected the UniQuad® Translucent Wall System.
 
The athletic facility is sunk in the ground to achieve proper scale. A narrow band of glass wraps the building near ground level, topped by 4,500 square feet of UniQuad translucent walls on three sides, rising to a height of 30 feet.

Riverside Recreation Center

Founded in 1898, the 860-acre Riverside Park in Indianapolis needed a rebranding and remodeling. The Indianapolis Parks Department decided to invest more than $100 million into renovations, including the replacement of a failing daylighting system at the Park’s Family Recreation Center. 1,940 sq. ft. of UniQuad translucent wall system replaced the deteriorating and yellowing daylighting wall. Our white and blue-glazed panels were installed to allow more natural and uniform light to diffuse into the space while minimizing glare for those occupying the facility, bringing a new and fun aesthetic to the building in the process.

The facility houses a variety of amenities for community members, including: a gymnasium, weight room, craft room for children, basketball courts, picnic shelters, and more.

Roanoke Blacksburg Airport

The ever-growing Roanoke-Blacksburg Regional Airport (ROA) wanted to better accommodate the 600,000+ passengers that move through the airport annually. To help guide commuters to the terminal and protect them from poor weather and glare, ROA incorporated 7,560 sq. ft. of our Pentaglas canopy system into a massive $1.9 million renovation project for the airport. Designed to match the architectural style and feel of the airport itself, our blue matte canopy serves as a focal point, spanning the entire length of the Long-Term parking lot to lead guests and travelers to the Terminal’s main entrance.

Skokomish Community Center

The Skokomish Tribe’s brand-new community center encourages stronger relationships within the tribe through programs highlighting culture, traditions, education, ceremonies, and more. The center celebrates the Tribe’s environmentalist culture by incorporating a variety of “green” initiatives, including: LED lighting, over 400 solar panels on the roof, and 3,280 sq. ft. our U-Lite canopy system to provide an abundance of natural light in the entryway below. Traditional Coast Salish artwork was also incorporated into the building’s structure, seen in the barn-style doors and carved poles at the entrance, which make up the canopy posts. The Skokomish center creates a welcoming environment for all members, and the community believes the new facility is a sign of progress for the tribe and a great indicator of what is to come.

Ohio State University Transit Center

The Ohio State Transit Centers across campus now feature our U-Lite translucent canopy system to provide shelter for the drop off and pick up areas. Over 10,200 sq. ft. of our canopy systems were installed on the school campus, specified in an ice white glazing color. The U-Lite system allows for an abundance of natural light beneath the covered area, creating comfortable and defined spaces for students and passengers. Our pre-engineered system was the perfect solution for the project’s compressed schedule, eliminating weeks of engineering and submittal time and resulting in substantial cost savings.

Memorial Parkway Junior High School

The Katy Independent School District (ISD) wanted a new canopy system installed for the Memorial Parkway High School that was functional, but would leave a lasting impression on its students, faculty, and visitors. We installed 980 sq. ft. of our ice white U-Lite translucent canopy system to provide a seamless look the school district was looking for, while protecting passerby from inclement weather and harsh glare, and providing an abundance of light to the school’s main entryway.

Boeing 787 Assembly Facility

When you think of Charleston, South Carolina, Boeing’s 787 Final Assembly Building probably isn’t the first thing to come to mind, but it is the first thing you see when you enter the Charleston International Airport. “[It was] the largest construction project on the East Coast at the time and the largest construction project ever in South Carolina,” said Senior Project Manager Steve McGrey of KBR Building Group, a division of BE&K.

The assembly building is a joint venture project between the BE&K Building Group, Turner Construction Company, and design partners BRPH Architects. The facility stands at 1.2 million sq. ft. and was built in just eighteen months. It needed to meet hurricane wind loads due to its proximity to the Atlantic Ocean. This task proved to be challenging for many systems, but UniQuad® proved to be the perfect fit. The UniQuad system worked with the architect’s design without forcing them to compromise their vision, and provided the ideal light levels based on the design of the doors, orientation of the building, the height of the windows, and other factors.

The design on the sixteen massive hangar doors called for precision in panel size and thickness to allow the doors to operate properly while still letting natural light into the building. Even when the doors are fully closed, the UniQuad system provides an abundance of natural light without the unwanted
glare and also reduces the amount of heat that enters the building. This is an impossible feat with typical plastic or aluminum materials found on standard hangar doors. The unwanted glare was eliminated due to the system’s Nano-Cell® technology, which was combined with a matte finish.

The UniQuad system is an assembly of two independent translucent insulated panels, resulting in one integrated and high-performance daylighting system. Boeing’s use of 25,150 sq. ft. of UniQuad,  combined with other green building initiatives, enabled the project to achieve LEED® Gold certification.

“[The UniQuad panels] were integrated into the 85 ft. tall hangar doors on either end,” said McGrey. “Timing was critical to door completion, which then allowed the start-up of the HVAC systems that were necessary for Boeing production tooling installations.”

The speedy installation of the panels allowed for production to begin six months ahead of schedule.
The economic impact of the plant was massive on the city of Charleston. Approximately $10 billion is injected back into the community annually as a result of the facility, with over 7,000 new jobs to help strengthen the city’s workforce. In the last four years, the Charleston workforce was boosted by
more than five percent, according to a recent economic study. Charleston is the first city to house a new Boeing aircraft assembly line outside of the Seattle, Washington base.

Cascade High School

Located in the largest geographic school district in Iowa, Cascade High School needed to be renovated to provide much-needed square footage for its student body and staff. For many rural towns in the area, the school and its activities are the heartbeat of the community, and the goal was to reflect that in the school’s design. Featuring 6,590 sq. ft. of our UniQuad translucent wall system, the new exterior skin modernizes and unifies the building’s multiple additions, and has made the school a focal point worthy of its centrality in the community for its unique aesthetic. This project won the 2015 AIA Iowa Design Award and the 2016 AIA Central States Design Award.

UTES Facility

The Fort Indiantown Gap, an active National Guard training center in Pennsylvania, needed a new Unit Training Equipment Site (UTES) facility for their stationed soldiers. The new facility was designed to offer soldiers assistance and maintenance support for the vehicles and weapons it houses. 26,540 sq. ft. of our UniQuad translucent wall system, specified in a clear glazing color, was incorporated into the facility’s design to provide ample daylight and ensure that daytime operations run effectively and smoothly with minimal use of artificial lighting.