PP&T Promotes Panelization

Portland, ME – Maine based Porter Panel & Truss (PP&T) announced that it has been selected as one of the first affiliated fabricators of prefabricated exterior wall systems marketed by Sto Corporation.
Dominick Barruffi,  executive director of Sto Panel Technology,  visited Porter Panels manufacturing facility in Portland to make the announcement, after which Porter and Sto hosted a seminar that was attended by over 50 regional architects, engineers and building contractors on building envelope design and panelized commercial wall systems for high performance buildings. The development of modern building materials and techniques requires considerable research, design and testing to properly execute the required external insulation and air and moisture barriers specified to meet the increasingly stringent building performance codes.
Porter Panel & Truss is a statewide construction company that has been doing drywall and commercial framing since its beginning in 1989. In 2007 they took on their first panelization project with the fabrication and erection of the seven story Hollywood Slots hotel in Bangor. Soon after, they put a new exterior skin using a panelized approach on the nine story Sheraton Four Points hotel, also in Bangor. This experience convinced the company leadership that developing skills to be able to manufacture a much higher percentage of a building in a controlled environment can produce much higher quality results, more efficiently and under safer and more predictable working conditions.
In the past three years Porter has completed 40 additional panelized building projects including two large dormitories at UNE and Husson University, the Oxford Casino, Bigelow Laboratories in East Boothbay and the very large new Maine General Hospital in Augusta. Smaller projects include several branch banks, medical buildings, condominiums, apartment
buildings.