Going Green
The Rooftop Farm Revolution is Here
By Cass Jacoby. Urban farms are getting off the ground with food increasingly coming from above the skyline. We lose “more than 50 acres of American farmland to urban development every hour and in that same amount of time the human population grows by 240 people,” according to James ...
Smart Home Demonstrates the Value of Efficient Building Products
By Cass Jacoby. The Living Lab shows us how products like VYCOR® enV-S™ help make homes more efficient and prove their place in sustainable home construction of the future. Anyone driving down the street and looking at the construction of this house wouldn’t recognize anything too different about it. ...
LP Building Solutions Leaders Share Their Strategies for Sustainability
By LP Building Solutions. Learn more about LP Building Solution’s well-rounded approach to sustainability. Companies all over the roofing industry are looking for ways to be more sustainable. Recently, LP Building Solutions released their own 2021 Sustainability Report which outlines LP’s approach to being a more sustainable company. To give ...
Eco-friendly Roof Makes Huge Impact as Low-Income Families in India Struggle with Effects of Climate Crisis
By Cass Jacoby. Scientists awarded a grant to support their renewable and affordable roofing material that could be the solution to the intolerable heat affecting Indian families that live on less that $5 a day. In India the temperatures can stay well over 100 degrees for weeks. It can get ...
Texas Traditions Roofing Completes Installation of the First GAF Solar Shingle Roof in Central Texas
The GAF Timberline Solar Shingle™ has an all-in-one 25-year warranty that covers the product as both a roof and solar product. Texas Traditions Roofing, a family owned, commercial and residential roofing company serving Central Texas, announced that it recently completed the installation of the first GAF Timberline Solar™ roof in Cedar ...
World’s Largest Green Roof Planned for Cupertino Development
By Cass Jacoby, RCS Reporter. 30-acre green roof proposed for the Hills at Vallco Mall revamp will be the largest green roof in the world and will be the crowning accomplishment of the community. Once a thriving spot in the city, the Vallco Shopping Mall in Cupertino, California is a mostly ...
Everything you Need to Know About Daylighting
By Grant Grable, LEED A. P. , VP of Business Dev. At Sunoptics. What is daylighting? You can get various answers when you ask, so here is a crash course. Everyone knows that daylight plays a huge part in keeping us happy and healthy. The benefits of daylight are well ...
Work Underway on Manhattan’s Largest Green Roof
By Cass Jacoby, RCS Reporter. Atop the ten-story tall building of 341 Ninth Avenue in West Chelsea is about to get a whole lot greener. West Chelsea is known for its huge stretch of 200 art galleries, which stand within a few blocks of each other, including the ...
Discover One of The Most Sustainable Roofing Products in the Industry
By Cass Jacoby, RCS Reporter. IB Roof System’s new carbon neutral calculator confirms that their PVC reflective membrane is one of the greenest products available on the market. Heidi J. Ellsworth visits with brothers Jason and Shawn Stanley of IB Roof Systems™ in a Roofing Road Trips episode to talk ...
Military Snaps to Attention
By Robert Scichili and Scott Kri, Retrofit Magazine. The U.S. Department of Defense tests metal roof technology integrating renewable energy and sustainability features. According to Washington, D.C.-based Energy Star, there are 4.8 million existing commercial buildings in the U.S. and 40 percent of them were built prior to 1970, a time when ...
