Members of the Spiral Duct Manufacturers Association (SPIDA) visited the Johns Manville plant in Dallas, Texas during their annual meeting last month.   

When Spiro International SA opened an outpost for selling its Spiro Tubeformer machines in the United States, the move signaled spiral duct’s burgeoning popularity in the U.S. duct manufacturing industry. Decades later, spiral duct is more popular than ever thanks to the efforts of the Spiral Duct Manufacturers Association(SPIDA).

Inside Midwest Metal Products' evergrowing company. 

AccuDuct Manufacturing took pride in finding ways to make a project “lean” before lean was what it is today. 

The new Career and Technical Education Center at the University of Alaska was built to match the equipment and workplaces that students will move onto after graduation. 

On the shoreline of little Lake Crabtree in Cary, North Carolina, seven stories of dazzling glass and metal sweep the skyline in the form of the twin MetLife buildings. But the real beauty of the job site is how BIM helped keep the project on track.

Based in northern Indiana, Midwest Metal Products is one of the nation’s leading producers of angle rings and rolled structural sheet metal products. Its determination to keep up with advances in technology is one of the reasons why.

Hamlin Sheet Metal of Garner, North Carolina, was awarded the contract to provide the spiral duct on the addition and remodel at F.K. Marchman Technical Educational Center in New Port Richey, Florida.

The U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, Minnesota, which is nearly twice the size of the Metrodome, will boast 1.75 million square feet of space with a seating capacity of approximately 72,000.

From initial planning through final installation and on to efficient operation by the customer, round ductwork provides the best overall optimized solution. Let’s take a look at the major project steps and observe how spiral duct  — aka “pipe” — can provide benefits throughout the life cycle of a building project.