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Article: Architects digest growing metals menu: architects, designers and specifiers are finding the growing selection of architectural metal products particularly appealing due to their durability, aesthetics and environmental characteristics.(END-USE OUTLOOK: ARCHITECTURAL METALS)(Cover story)
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- Metal Center News
- Article date:
- August 1, 2007
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WHETHER DUE TO THEIR INHERENT properties, their environmentally friendly characteristics or their dashing good looks, metals are finding growing favor among the designers and specifiers who put the face on North American construction projects. Even in a fairly flat construction market, producers and distributors of architectural metal products say demand has been solid and should remain that way for the foreseeable future.
Residential construction starts have been off throughout 2007, totaling less than 1.5 million each month through May, well behind the 1.63 million averaged in the second half of 2006, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
The numbers ...