Project Profiles
Undulating Canopy Roof Makes Jiaxing Civic Center a “Garden-Like Living Room for the City”
By Cass Jacoby, RCS Reporter. This roof was designed to build coherence and unity of indoor and outdoor spaces while making the three buildings it covers more energy efficient. The civic center in the city of Jiaxing, China will be topped with a continuous roof designed by architecture studio MAD. ...
Reconfiguring Mercy Hospital
Four different roof plans were created for the new structure taking Central Roofing Company almost three years to complete the roofing work. Back in 2017, Allina Health Mercy Hospital had a problem. The Minnesota health care location had simply run out of space. The solution involved relocating and enlarging the main ...
Santa Monica Roofing Project is a Work of Art
By Cass Jacoby, RCS Reporter. Roof installation from Shell Roofing Solutions provides energy efficiency and proper drainage slopes. When a California developer of high-rise, multi-use buildings called on Shell Roofing Solutions’ team to develop a roofing specification for a new roofing project in Santa Monica, California, they knew they ...
New Roofing for Masonic Institute for the Developing Brain
Renovation and opening of the new institute to be complete by end of 2021. When members of the Masonic Fraternity of Lodge 98 laid the cornerstone for their building in 1922, they could hardly have dreamt what would happen to their location almost a century later. Now under full renovation, the ...
Happy Homeowner Says Goodbye to Her Decaying Wood Roof
By DaVinci Roofscapes. After a hailstorm damaged Kristine Merta’s roof, she was pleasantly surprised with the DaVinci composite slate replacement. Bulldog Contractors installed a new composite shake roof on a 6,000-square-foot home in Minnesota, sandwiched between a huge summer hailstorm and just before winter dumped snow on the state. Homeowner ...
Composite Slate Helps Central Community Church Chapel Reach Toward the Skies
By DaVinci Roofscapes. See why this stand-out 50-foot chapel in Wichita, Kansas now has DaVinci tiles. Built in 2019, the chapel at Central Community Church was intended to be inviting in design. As a more intimate setting than the sanctuary, the chapel is used for celebration of life services. John ...
4 Metal Roof Success Stories
By DECRA Metal. Let these roofing projects serve as your inspiration for springtime roof remodels. Taking on a roofing project requires a lot of pre-planning, with homeowners paying special attention on finding the right roofing material for their home. Looking into roofing materials now will help you get ahead ...
St. Catherine of Siena Completes Campus With DaVinci Slate
By DaVinci Roofscapes. Synthetic Slate on the new buildings catches churchgoers' eyes. St. Catherine of Siena’s extension of the church grounds is finally complete with the inclusion of a new church sanctuary and adoration chapel. The addition to the impressive 30,300-square-foot church in Wichita, Kansas includes a new sanctuary, a commons area, ...
Custom Copper Steeple Added to First Evangelical Lutheran Church
The steeple suffered from leaks and woodpecker holes, which is when church leaders knew it was time to for a change. The real cedar shingles on the steeple atop the First Evangelical Lutheran Church in Taylor Falls, Minnesota lasted more than 100 years. Then, between leaks and woodpecker holes, church leaders ...
Case Study: PVKIT2.0 Helps Costa-Rica Company Go Solar
The PVKIT’s pre-assembled components provided a simple, secure and economical method for attaching the solar panels. Case Study―MicroTech, Costa Rica S-5-PVKIT®2.0 & S-5-H Mini The project Based in the beautiful Alajuela Province of Costa Rica, MicroTech’s state-of-the-art certified manufacturing facility provides precision manufacturing and supply chain innovation through ...
