Project Profiles
Case Study: Failing One-year-old Roof on Warehouse Quickly Replaced
By Western Colloid. Western Colloid provides affordable and quality commercial roof for this Arizona Warehouse. It isn’t common that a new roof starts to fail. Incorrect installation and materials will lead to major problems in your building. In the case of this metal warehouse with acrylic coating, both instances were ...
Sika at Work: RoofCoat Rehabilitates Municipality Building Roof
By Cass Jacoby, RCS Reporter. Roof coating solution proves to be the most cost-effective way to extend the life of the roof. In the summer of 2018, a major municipality just east of San Francisco was in the midst of reviewing the condition of the roofs on a ...
Case Study: S-5! - Hawaii H-POWER Solar Project VersaGard™ & S-5-S Mini
S-5! solar attachments were chosen to secure the solar panels to the metal rooftops of all buildings for this project - one of the largest rooftop solar projects in the state of Hawaii. The project The Honolulu Program of Waste Energy Recovery, or H-POWER, in Kapolei, West Oahu generates up to 90 ...
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 ...
