Project Focus: Town of Fishkill Recreation Building, Fishkill, N.Y.

by David Flaherty | 14 October 2025 6:26 pm

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When visiting the calendar page of the Town of Fishkill (NY) Recreation building, it’s easy to see that there is a lot going on every day. Each date has four of that day’s events listed, but at the bottom of each date is a link to drop down the entire list–some days, the link says “+14 more.” Evidently, it’s a very busy place.

Recurring roof leaks were becoming a problem with the original standing seam metal roof at this hub of activity. A typical July day at the Fishkill Recreation building will include basketball, cheerleading, senior bingo, soccer camp, and Zumba workouts. Removing the roof and installing a new one was not an option, since visitors of all ages are coming and going from 8 in the morning until 9 at night.

Ultimately, the town opted for a Roof Hugger sub-framing system, where the original roofing panels stay in place. The Roof Hugger sub-purlins fit over the seams of the 25-year-old metal panels and are attached through the old roof and into the original roof structural framing system. The new standing seam panels were attached to those sub-purlins, providing a durable, weather-tight, wind-resistant system that should serve the community for decades.

R.K. Roofing of Wingdale, N.Y., completed the re-roofing of this rec center without interrupting building activities.

The project required 1,403 m (4,600 linear feet) of Roof Hugger’s Model T, a 114-mm-tall (4.5-in.-tall) sub-purlin for a typical 610-mm (24-in.) on-center rib trapezoidal standing seam panel. R.K. Roofing also installed more than 1,858 m² (20,000 sf) of roofing panels. New Castle Metals of Hicksville, N.Y., manufactured the panels onsite, the Drexel Metals 450SL, a 38-mm (1.5-in.) snap lock profile. Medium Bronze was the color selected for the 381-mm (15-in.) wide 24-gauge panels, installed on a 5:12 slope.

Owner: Town of Fishkill, N.Y., fishkill-ny.gov

General contractor: A & J Construction, West Nyack, N.Y.

Roofing installer: R.K. Roofing Inc., Wingdale, N.Y., rkroofers.com

Panel manufacturer: New Castle Metals, Hicksville, N.Y., newcastlemetal.com

Sub-framing system: Roof Hugger, Lutz, Fla., roofhugger.com/

Source URL: https://www.metalconstructionnews.com/projects/town-of-fishkill-recreation-building/

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