Manufacturing Industry

Mesh links the priorities of design and security.

Building Design & Construction, February, 2007

Staff A metal mesh system helps define boundaries yet still gives the feeling of an open design in the exterior dining area of the $22 million National Archives Southeast Region building in Morrow, Ga. The use of architectural mesh helped the Building Team comply not only with the architect's contemporary design, but also with National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) security regulations.

Although the contents of the building are historical, the design of the 117,000-sf Southeast Regional Archives has a forward focus. "We designed the building to be cutting edge and to meet green building standards," said Carissa Faroughi, project manager with design architect Peck, Peck and Associates, Woodbridge, Va. Faroughi calls the structure a...

Premium Content Partnership | HighBeam Research provides an in-depth online archive library of reference works. HighBeam Research
 

BNET TalkbackShare your ideas and expertise on this topic

Please add your comment:

  1. You are currently: a Guest |
  2.  

Basic HTML tags that work in comments are: bold (<b></b>), italic (<i></i>), underline (<u></u>), and hyperlink (<a href></a)

advertisement
advertisement
  • Click Here
  • Click Here
  • Click Here
advertisement
Click Here