Project Profiles
Burton Barr Public Library Survives Microburst and Receives New Roof
By John Plescia – CEO of Star Roofing Inc. Star Roofing helps the environment by recycling over 250 tons of old roofing materials. At 6:00 pm, Saturday, July 15, 2017, a microburst* over the roof of Burton Barr Library* in Phoenix, Arizona, lifted the roof structure (which it was designed to do) ...
Paver and Strut Knucklehead Upgrade Cooling System Support During Re-Roofing
This project involved the installation of KnuckleHeads to improve the support structure of a rooftop cooling system during a commercial re-roofing job. The building was an approximately 28,000-square-foot facility housing a large internet service provider located in Southfield, Michigan. The cooling system included three large chillers and associated pipes and conduit ...
Medical Center Chooses FiberTite over TPO Roofing
Florida medical center trusts FiberTite to protect their facility. Maintaining the building envelope is essential to the success of a facility with critical interior space. Facilities Managers for hospitals and medical centers need to be on top of the building envelope integrity so patients and valuable assets are protected. The ...
Fire and Rain
By Duro-Last Roofing. How Alternative Roofing Systems, Inc. protected Travis Industries’ “House of Fire” from Washington’s heavy precipitation. Travis Industries is known for manufacturing state-of-the-art fireplaces and woodstoves that can be found in homes, hotels and businesses throughout the United States, Canada, and Australia. Their Lopi™, Fireplace Xtrordinair™, DaVinci Custom Fireplaces™ and ...
Duro-Last Project Profile: Georgia Institute of Technology
Founded in 1885, the Georgia Institute of Technology is home to 700 faculty and 15,000 students pursuing their dreams on a 330-acre campus in Atlanta. Georgia Tech’s challenge is the same as similar institutions of higher education — keeping everyone sheltered under several hundred thousand square feet of roofing. As a leading ...
Contractor Showcases Wedding Barn Roof in Florida Using Fastener-free Adhesive Metal Roofing System, StealthBond®
By Karen L. Edwards, RCS Editor. New wedding chapel and venue was the first StealthBond® installation for PDF Roofing; read about their experience. Paul Furr, CPRC and owner of Sarasota, Florida-based PDF Roofing LLC says the StealthBond® system is the future of metal roofing. He should know, since he has been in ...
See How DECRA Products Met the Need for Historic Preservation, Religious and Commercial Projects
The wide variety of styles and colors made the system a fit for each of these buildings. DECRA Metal Roofing systems provide safety and protection when it comes to nature’s harshest elements such as fire, wind, hail, hurricanes, seismic activity and extreme cold and heat. HISTORIC PRESERVATION: The Red Antiquities Building Problem: Constructed ...
FiberTite® RhinoBond® system passes with flying colors on marina roof
Roof project coordination with OMG Roofing Products results in improved wind performance and fewer fasteners, plates, and membrane seams to weld. The nautical expression “to pass with flying colors” is derived from the days when ships would come back from battle with their “colors” (flags) flying to indicate they were victorious. ...
New RhinoBond roof keeps popular brewery hopping
System chosen due to ease of installation, energy savings, and advanced technology to bond the membrane without penetration. Standing in line for hours for one case of canned beer might seem foolish to some people, but to fans of Tree House Brewing – which was recently named one of the country’s ...
Windsor® Shingles Wow in Wisconsin
by Malarkey Roofing. Malarkey’s technology and designer shingles offers homeowner great look of traditional cedar shingles, reliability, and extreme weather protection. When contracted to replace the 135 square roof of a palatial home in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, Malarkey Certified Contractor, Brookens Construction, chose the distinctive Windsor® shingle to complement the grandeur of the ...
