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Save Your Building from Weather Damage

The next time you’re listening to the weather report on the evening news, take a minute to go outside and take a look at your home or office. When we hear that it’s going to rain or that there’s snow in the forecast, our first thought is what we should wear to accommodate th...

Cubby House Challenge

Grimshaw is one of five practices selected to design and build a cubby for the Kids Under Cover 2017 Cubby House Challenge. The five cubbies were auctioned at a VIP event at the 2017 Melbourne International Flower & Garden Show, raising AUD$ 162,000 for the Kids Under Cover’...

Choosing the Right Roofing System for Your Project

The Right Roofing System Starts at the TopWhen designing a building, one of the most important assessments to make is deciding on the best roofing system. With more than half a century in the business of building, Danpal has seen a lot of roofing come and go, an...

The Popular Trend That’s Built to Last

Escape the Same Old Design with a Spectacular FacadeWhen you first decided to enter the design field, there’s a good chance that you did so because you wanted to give your imagination free rein. You didn’t want to be locked into the same tired old t...

Aim High with a Danpal Skylight Roof

Danpal Delivers the SkyOperating a building materials business on five continents gives Danpal the edge when it comes to roofing systems. Roofs aren’t the same the whole world over, and at Danpal, we pride ourselves on being able to deliver the sky when a clie...

Façade Materials Build Walls that Stand Out

Façade MaterialsDuring the course of Danpal’s fifty years perfecting the art of building, we’ve seen how construction priorities have evolved over the decades. Now, today’s client expects the building that’s under construction to fit harmoniously into t...

U Panels are not the Panels for You

Consider the Building in Which We LIveWhat do you expect from a building? The question isn’t as strange as it seems. When you think about it, nearly every aspect of our lives depends in some way upon buildings. We live in homes, we work in offices, schools, st...

Choose the Polycarbonate Standing Seam Panel for 21st Century Building Quality

The Polycarbonate Standing Seam Panel: An Advance in Architectural TechnologyThe arrival of the standing seam system in the building industry is an affirmation of the visionary role that Danpal plays in architectural technologies. Danpal was the first company to...