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Reliance Metalcenter is undergoing a substantial expansion to its existing facility in Salt Lake City that will greatly increase the company’s production capacity. The expansion is being delivered by the design-build team of Layton Construction and GSBS Architects, with an anticipated completion date in the late summer of 2008. Reliance Metalcenter is a diversified metals processor and distributor and is a division of Reliance Steel & Aluminum Co., one of the largest metals service center companies in the United States. The Salt Lake City division delivers daily throughout Utah, Wyoming, Idaho and Nevada and has been acknowledged for several years as possessing the area’s most complete carbon steel inventory and processing capabilities. Reliance Metalcenter is equipped with its own fleet of 18 trucks, two leveling lines, four plasma/acetylene oxygen plate burners, two saws and two shears. For the expansion, Layton Construction will add an additional 60,000 square feet of floor space to Reliance Metalcenter’s existing 110,000-square-foot facility. The expansion includes a new railroad spur that will accommodate larger and more cost-effective deliveries and be accessible to additional under-roof storage and crane capacity. The expansion will also increase Reliance Metalcenter’s output capabilities with the addition of three truck lanes as well as four bridge cranes that will be used to unload trains and load incoming and outgoing trucks. The addition will house Reliance Metalcenter’s new technologically advanced panel flat laser-quality leveling line and have high-definition plasma plate cutting capabilities as well as various other equipment upgrades. Construction of the expansion is a continuation of the facility’s previous design and will include the use of concrete tilt panels, structural steel columns and beams, steel joists and metal deck. Additionally, construction work incorporates the use of the new energy code and additional energy saving systems such as lighting timeouts and sensors.