Seattle’s Center for Architecture and Design had their grand opening 7 years ago in March, 2016, and they have stood as a pillar for the architecture and design industry ever since. We are honored to have worked with the AIA to construct this beautiful place. Their confidence in us and our product was felt, as this was a major project that had a lot of work put in from start to finish. It all started with an amazing design plan and incredible vision for the limited space they had available, and together with the great teams working on this project we were able to build the wonderful gallery that can be seen today.
Seattle Center for Architecture and Design
As a chapter of the American Institute of Architects, the Seattle Center for Architecture and Design welcomes and promotes many different styles and techniques of architecture, hosting valuable presentations and events in their welcoming gallery. On display they have many different subjects of the architecture and design industries, and many people visit the center from open until close to see these marvelous features and discuss these themes.
During their grand opening, the Center for Architecture and Design was in need of some large, adjustable walls and doors to manipulate the gallery as needed. Their vision was to have walls that could be adjusted to create a beautiful, open space for guests, but could also be turned as to create a closed area to hold meetings and conferences. Sing Core donated the wall panels needed for this grand project, as well as customized them with additions such as a man door, allowing an easy entrance and exit even when the room had been closed off. The donated panels were actually so large that the front windows had to be temporarily removed, as the product would not fit through the door!
In addition to the adjustable walls and doors Sing Core donated, we also provided furniture for the office in the form of high end desks, shelving, partition walls, and more, all using our patented and patent-pending Sing Core products.
These grand adjustable walls are still in place today, and can be seen as a main piece of the Center’s gallery. They were created and still function to serve one main purpose: to maximize space in an innovative way. And while Sing Core is proud of our donation, we also owe a significant compliment to the incredible teams that designed the floor plan and installed the doors and walls, as their excellent skills and labor were just as essential in creating this space.
Texas Society of Architects
Sing Core also provided our panels at a discount to the Texas Society of Architects by AIA for use in their offices and building space. The location had a significant noise problem with their high, industrial style ceiling, and they needed high end panels to cut down on the echoes and residual sound. By installing Sing Core panels in strategic places, they were able to significantly cut down on the noise and establish a far more relaxed and focused work environment. Once again, this could not have been done without the incredible design and installation teams who perfectly utilized the Sing Core panels..
Conclusion
Sing Core is proud to be a platinum donor and support these AIA locations and the amazing things they do for the architecture and design community. If you are a member of the AIA, please share this article with your fellow AIA members, and we welcome you to reach out about any AIA project like these so that we can continue to help the organization, and we would be honored to do so at a discounted rate to help your budget. To learn more about the products provided to the Seattle and Texas locations, click here.
More Pictures of the Seattle and Texas AIA Donations
One of the more common non-door things we Sing Core panels used for is as a table or countertop. Our products work incredibly well for this, as some cases call for a very lightweight and easy to move surface, or others demand a large, custom-shaped table for places like a conference room. Either way, Sing Core panels work great for these applications. You can have the sturdy, warp-free, and high-quality aspects of a Sing Core door, but for your table or counter!
Mobile Cabinets or Containers
There are many different cases where one might need a mobile cabinet or container. Some businesses have rolling cabinets for secure equipment storage, while others need a durable and strong container that can be hauled from location to location. In the case of a storage cabinet, Sing Core works amazingly as it keeps the unit lightweight while also providing rigidity and security that normal, thin cabinet wood does not. Plus, with our new Security Door panel, this can take a cabinet from secure to impenetrable. Businesses that are constantly moving high-end electronics or sensitive documents can make especially good use of a Sing Core storage solution.
As for the case of strong containers meant to be hauled from place to place, Sing Core is again an excellent choice. People or businesses that find themselves regularly transporting hefty or large items may be looking for a reusable container that can guarantee protection for the cargo, without adding much to the weight of it.
Furniture
Sing Core panels can be made to unique sizes and shapes, allowing them to be used for miscellaneous furniture or similar applications. Sing Core has been used to make bunk beds, dressers, storage pieces, and more. This allows for the furniture to be transported incredibly easily, as it would weigh a fraction of a normal unit of the same furniture. We even use furniture made from Sing Core products in our own office, and they are still holding strong and working incredibly well.
Floors
We often think of Sing Core panels being used as doors and walls, but they work just as well as floors. Particularly the floors of upper building levels, as they are incredibly lightweight, but have the structural integrity to withstand walking on. If you’re building a tiny house or some other small structure, using Sing Core for your upper floors may be your best bet, as it allows for easy construction and transportation.
And More!
Sing Core is more than just a door or wall panel, it’s a core that can be used in nearly any aspect of construction. Floors, stairs, furniture, and much more become a possibility with Sing Core. Plus, you still get our 50-Year Structural Guarantee, so you know you won’t need to do any replacing for a long time. When you look around at the things around you or think of new project ideas, consider Sing Core to make it the best it can be!
Chic, Strong, Lightweight, Long-Lasting, and Versatile: The Sing Honeycomb Furniture line is chic, strong, lightweight, long lasting, and versatile. Our furniture is made of our patented Sing Honeycomb panels which utilize torsion box technology to ensure strength. Each Sing furniture piece is strong enough to support up to 600 lbs. Sing furniture is also completely DIY. Our products are easy to put together and take down.
Environmentally Friendly and Made in the USA: Sing furniture panels are environmentally friendly. The only materials used to construct our panels are wood veneer combined with recycled EPS foam and non-toxic glues. All of our products are manufactured right here in the USA.
Ordering Sing Furniture is easy! To order Sing Furniture submit an Order Form either by email, info@singhome.com, or print and fax it to: 360.495.4585. We’ll provide a quote within one business day.
Above: A beautiful captan’s bed made from Sing Core Furniture Panels
Strong drawers complete the funtional beauty of the captain’s bed.
Look! This drawer is easily holding up to 600 pounds!
A modular bookshelf constructed from SingCore Furniture Panels.
The simplest and least expensive way to join sing panels is to join in any way according to your budget and/or expertise.
Due to Sing Panels being so straight and true it is easier to join panels together because they line up perfectly unlike other building materials.
In many cases, for instance, standard 4×8 panels can be nailed, glued or channel-joined quickly and easily with satisfactory results.
Other options for fastening panels may include cam locks (see examples left and right) that can be pre-installed, making assembly and joining easy and more secure.
The Sing cam-lock panel solution is a high-demand solution for panels that are routinely assembled and disassembled, especially in moveable walls, trade show booths, and various wall cladding applications. See: Cam Lock Panels
Connect multiple panels together in any configuration
Add lightweight high strength Sing modular shelves
4-way Connection
X Connector
Lightweight + Strong
L & T Connectors
X Connector 4-way
T Connectors
Thru-bolt Joining
One of the most inexpensive and secure ways to join sing panels is by utilizing a simple nut and bolt connection method, especially, if the panels will be routinely or repeatedly assembled and disassembled.
Stainless steel nuts and bolts offer the safety and security when joining sing panels.
Biscuit Joining
In many cases, Sing Panels can be pre-configured for biscuit joining at your site of factory.
Especially for large projects, this enables Sing Core panels to be sent individually, reducing shipping and handling costs, for assembly at your facility or job site.
See images below for example of biscuit assembly of Sing Panels
Unless specified Sing Panels do not ship edge-banded as 93% of our wholesale customers do their own edge-banding when finishing their Sing Panel.
Edge banding can take many forms from vinyl and plastic to wood and steel. Sing Panels are not intended for use as an un-banded product and may not qualify for our 50 year warranty if un-banded.
If your intention is to get the best, most long-lasting performance from your Sing Panels, feel free to take advantage of our free consultation to be guaranteed to achieve the results that you desire.
Insulated metal roofing panels
Edge Banding Options Include:
T Molding
Here is an example of a large lightweight high-strength non-warping sliding door.
Note the steel T molding being installed to complete the door’s composition.
This door is guaranteed not to warp, bend, twist or otherwise fail due to being properly engineered and manufactured to exceed the specifications of this oversized architectural door.
T Molding
L Molding
Flat Molding
U Channel
Photo courtesy of Vancouver Doors
Advanced Large Panels
Sing Core specializes in extremely large panels (up to 50 feet) that are extremely true flat and use our nearly seamless assembly process.
This is the most high-end and expensive process where we perform the highly specialized meticulous work in our factory yielding the high level of perfection that many of our most discerning clients require. See: our clients.
These must be manufactured in our plant to ensure accuracy with tolerances within thousandths of an inch and are more costly to ship due to the nature of their being larger than multiple panels that can be assembled on-site.
Connectors for Connecting
Cam-Locks
One of our many features is the ability to add fasteners/locks to our panels…one example of this is the “S-Hook Lock” with a turn of the hex wrench you can fasten or unfasten your panels quickly.
The “S-Hook” fastening lock that is attached to the side of these panels to allow for easy assembly of the wall system.
With a quick turn of your wrist on the hex key your panels will be attached to each other.
Barn Door Assembly or ‘H’ Channel
If you are planning to keep your panels as a permanent structure you may choose the H-Channel attachment feature. Apply your adhesive the slide panel into the channel on each side then either veneer over the panel and channel or you may choose to putty, sand and paint your panels to cover over the H-channel.
Tongue and Groove
Tongue and groove is another fastening choice especially if you using our panels for flooring or ceiling. Make a nice almost seamless connection but give wood veneer a hardwood flooring appearance.
Biscuit Joint
This is a modified biscuit joint attachment. Similar to the H-joint the you are using a single long “beam” as the connector and gluing them together. Best use is for oversize tables (such as vacuum tables) and oversize doors as well. Because our panels are made of honeycomb rather than solid wood, they will not warp. Our honeycomb is light and strong.
Ship Lap
The ever popular ship lap as a connector alternative.
With the wide variety of applications for Sing Core panels, posts and beams, and equally diverse selection of fasteners are used in practical installations.Here are some of the most popular fastening systems used today:Norse Inc. LatchesNorse latches are designed for concealed installation in Sing Panels. Multiple configurations of latches and receivers are possible to suit many applications, and offer numerous advantages.Click Here for More Information …Knape & Vogt Manufacturing Company
More than a century of experience to the design, manufacturing and distribution of functional hardware, storage-related components, and ergonomic products for original equipment manufacturers of the Tite Joint Fastener Draw Bolt.
An International leader of innovative threaded fastening solutions. Developers of the Draw Bolts and Zipbolt™ tight joint fasteners. They are constantly testing and developing fasteners that are easier, faster and less costly to use.
Over the past five years, FastCap has grown exponentially and has expanded its products base from the Fastcap to a vast array of woodworking products and tools, like the FlipBolt Tite-Joint Dog Bone Fastener Tool-less Draw Bolt.
The range of panel fasteners and plastic clips available from ITW Fastex is designed to fill most fastening requirements. The range of applications is wide from machines, appliances, and computers to recreational vehicles and point of purchase displays.
Shur-Lok fasteners and components are designed to satisfy customer requirements in two general application ideas: secondary structures, such as interior stow bins, lavatories and galleys, and primary structures, such as aircraft engines, engine pylons, landing gears, wings, gearboxes, transmissions and helicopter rotors–all critical applications.
Special and bespoke bonding fasteners. In addition to Veck Fasteners standard range of popular bonding fasteners, we provide purpose-designed special and bespoke bonding fasteners for customers who have specific requirements which cannot be fulfilled from our standard range.
CEL FASTENERS are innovative tools to anchor and attach and remove sandwich panels easily and quickly.
The advantages of CEL’s fasteners are:
Possibility to attach and detach the panels quickly to carry out maintenance work or substitution
Invisible bolts
Precise positioning and multiple removals
Quick assembly
Cost reduction
Initially developed in compliance with to the needs of shipyards, this anchoring system is more and more used in different sectors:
Shops’, hotels’ and trade fairs’ assembly
Lifts
Transport: buses, trains, vans, etc.
Carpentry
Furnishing
Implants
Solid wood implants can be placed anywhere inside your custom Sing Panels for attaching hardware or other anchoring, including lock blocks and the like.
Individual connection inserts can be specified at specific locations to meet all your connection method needs. These can include, potted inserts, Rivnuts, Helicoil inserts, blind inserts with tabs and spool inserts, just to name a few.
Liability disclaimer
The above data are to the best of our knowledge correct and are intended to give information about our products and their potential applications. No warranty is given or implied in respect of certain properties of the products or their suitability for a particular application. We reserve the right for technical changes without further notice. We guarantee impeccable product quality under our terms of sale.
The cut away of the Sing Core panel show the patented core that makes the difference. If you want the best panel or door available make sure you use Sing Core.
Patented Sing Honeycomb Fiberglass door (10′ x 3′ x 2.25″). Ready for fiberglass edge banding.
Lightweight, high strength finished fiberglass French door.
Deflection test of a finished fiberglass trailer deck.
Fiberglass trailer deck (13′ x 6′). Very strong but lightweight.
The underside of the fiberglass trailer deck.
Fiberglass water tank can be used for a hot tub, fish tank or even water storage.
Every Custom Sing Panel or Sing Post & Beam order can be broken down into 3 measurements: the length, width and thickness. Sing Panels are available in standard 4 ft. x 8 ft. x 1.5 inch thick and custom ordered Sing Panels (almost any size and thickness).
Select either Professional non-warp Sing Panels or Hot-Press-Ready, which can be hot pressed with veneer. Then choose your skin or surface material.
Note: Minimum Order $4,000. Price Quotes are valid for 15 days.
The estimate form below is only for Architects, Trade Professionals, and wholesale customers:
In addition to the adjustable walls and doors Sing Core donated, we also provided furniture for the office in the form of high end desks, shelving, partition walls, and more, all using our patented and patent-pending Sing Core products.
Texas Society of Architects
