“We were pushing for metal,” says Tom Dunn, president of Dunn & Titus, an architectural firm north of Cincinnati. The firm had been contracted by owner Jinteal Patel to design a new Holiday Inn Express in Cincinnati. All Holiday Inns are independently owned, but while there are certain interior design requirements, the outside is more flexible. “Obviously, a Holiday Inn has to have a green roof, and that’s harder to achieve with shingles,” Dunn continues. “We wanted an option for metal, because it adds to the building, especially when dealing with 12,000 square feet of roof area.”