Project Profiles
Historic 1895 Landmark Has its Day in Court
By Sika Corporation. Sulphur Springs, Texas courthouse gives testimony to Sikalastic RoofPro as the all-in-one restoration solution this building needed. The Hopkins County Courthouse was constructed in 1895 in a Romanesque Revival style by an Antonio-based architect, James Riely Gordon. The beautiful building was ravaged by years of exposure ...
44 Shades of Fluropon Used on MoMa’s 53 West 53
By Sherwin-Williams Coil Coatings. This striking skyline building with three apexes used Sherwin-Williams Fluropon to complete the complex coloring job. Over 1,050 feet above the Museum of Modern Art (MoMa), the 53 West 53 building is the museum’s recent feat in striking architecture. With a beautiful spire and an exterior ...
Fate Intervenes to Get University of Illinois Arena a Liquid Applied Membrane Roof
By Sika Corporation. Sika was in the right place to be the roofing solution the University of Illinois State Farm Arena was looking for. The University of Illinois’ State Farm Arena had been submitting proposals for a Liquid Applied Membrane (LAM) roof for a while before fate intervened. It ...
Study Shows This Stone-wool Insulation Has a Stable R-value
By ROCKWOOL. Research on a building that’s insulated with ROCKWOOL’s stone wool insulation finds its R-value is stable in cold and hot temperatures. Researchers performed a recent case study on the performance of ROCKWOOL’s stone wool insulation in the Chilliwack Building in British Columbia. The team from RDH Building Engineering ...
From Roof to Table: Meet the Ultimate Green Roof
By SOPREMA. Thanks to SOPRANATURE, this rooftop is growing produce they can sell in the grocery store below. The iconic grocery store rooftop farm in Saint-Laurent on the Island of Montréal very nearly wasn’t made. The rooftop, a large-scale urban rooftop farm, was almost just a four-inch sedum mat ...
Insulation Increases University's Thermal Performance
By ROCKWOOL. Wayne State University installs ROCKWOOL’s bitumen coated stone wool insulation to increase long-term thermal performance of the roof assembly. The roofs of a number of Wayne State University’s buildings on campus were leaking. The research institution that boasts nearly 32,000 students had discovered they would need to re-roof or re-cover ...
RoofPro Stands Up Against Hurricane Irma
By Sika. Hurricane force winds are no match for the new roof of American University of the Caribbean. In September of 2017 St. Maarten and the surrounding Caribbean islands were hit hard by Hurricane Irma. The Category 5 storm packed a powerful punch, with winds over 185 mph that caused ...
Resort Featured on “The Bachelor” Gets a Luxurious Roof Upgrade
By Evelyn Witterholt. This high-end Pennsylvania resort recently had its roof replaced with DaVinci synthetic slate. The Chateau at Nemacolin resort in Farmington, Pennsylvania is known for its lavish looking exterior. But when the hit TV show “The Bachelor” decided to film there, the management team knew it was time ...
Sound Absorbing Roof Lowers Noise Levels
By ROCKWOOL. This office building by the airport experiences less noise and a quieter work environment by using stone wool insulation in their latest roof remodel. Contracting company Flynn Canada has 17 offices all over Canada and recently turned a warehouse into another office space. But with the new office ...
Case Study: State Record-breaking Solar + Storage System
By Evelyn Witterholt. Vacuum thermal processing service facility features the largest rooftop solar + storage system in California. Solar Atmospheres of California (SACA), a vacuum thermal processing service facility has more than 60 furnaces for vacuum heat treating and brazing. Because of their high demand for energy, their plant in Fontana, ...
