This building on West Lemon Street, built circa 1890, has painted hot-dipped zinc roof cresting. The Charlie Wagner Cafe building, constructed circa 1892, has a painted decoration of hot-dipped zinc.

Roof cladding and architectural metal ornaments such as finials, pinnacles, urns, railings and cornices were hot-dipped in baths of molten zinc to protect them against rust. Here are some examples ...

Today, modern metal roofing systems use materials such as aluminum, galvanized steel, and zinc, offering superior ... reducing heat buildup under the roof and ensuring greater thermal comfort ...

The Orleans Steel Products Company — whose sign remains outside its former home at 1025 Bienville — and its parent company, ...

Metal roofs seem to be in vogue today, and many people mistakenly believe that they are a product of the modern era. Metal roofs, however, pre-date the contemporary asphalt shingle roof by a ...

MOSCOW, February 15 (Itar-Tass) – The roof of a zinc plant in the Chelyabinsk Region partially collapsed due to blast wave caused by the fall of a meteorite, the press centre of the Russian ...

the thought is that skin-effect currents induced in the support cables flowed to ground through the zinc sockets, increasing the plasticity of the metal and accelerating the zinc creep that ...

Today, modern metal roofing systems use materials such as aluminum, galvanized steel, and zinc, offering superior ... never held more significance. The roof is one of the most essential structural ...