“Green is real to building owners today,” said Dr. James Hoff, Director of Research for the Center for Environmental Innovation in Roofing in Washington, D.C. He detailed ways contractors could use green programs and incentives to build their businesses in his session titled “Roofing Green.”
Attendees and sponsors hailed the 5th Best of Success conference as the best one yet. It also was the largest one to date, as a record-setting 225 attendees gathered at the Music City Hotel in Nashville, Tenn. on Sept. 21-22 to focus on improving their businesses.
Commercial Roofers Inc. is not only the largest, most experienced roofing contractor in the Las Vegas Valley, it is the Roofing Contractor 2009 Commercial Contractor of the Year.
In its 25 years of operation, PetersenDean Roofing and Solar Systems has designed and installed roofs and integrated roofing and solar systems valued at well over $2 billion. Since its founding in 1984, the company has grown to become the largest privately held integrated roofing and solar contractor in the country, employing 4,500 people and operating coast-to-coast in over 15 offices in five states.
Rooftop solar systems are garnering increased attention of late, and they are becoming less pie-in-the-sky and more mainstream in the public consciousness. Recognizing this trend and determined to stay on the leading edge of this potentially market-altering development is Michael Jacobazzi, who is convinced of the potential of photovoltaic (PV) systems.
Building owners and facility managers are now, more than ever, looking for ways to cut costs and save money. However, if they are taking an “out of sight, out of mind” approach to roof maintenance, they could miss an excellent opportunity to ensure one of their largest investments provides long-term dividends.
The legend goes that when Henry Ford first unveiled the Model T, he promised, "Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black."
For more than 10 years, the European vinyl roofing manufacturers have been blazing the trail toward a robust post-consumer vinyl roof recycling infrastructure. And now, riding on the notable success of vinyl roof material reclamation pilot projects and the incorporation of new equipment for material processing, their North American counterparts are poised to bring post-consumer vinyl roof recycling into the mainstream.
David Montross prides himself on his company’s ability to do it all. Montross, the President of Montross Weatherproofing Systems Inc. in Lake Forest, Calif., is a fourth-generation roofer.
“No space, architecturally, is a space unless it has natural light.” This quote from 20th century architect Louis Kahn is echoed by many of today’s architectural and building design professionals.
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