Nearly eight years after the voters of Seattle passed a levy to expand the size and scope of the Van Asselt Community Center, the renovated building, located at 2820 S. Myrtle Street, was officially opened to the public in February 2007. Passed in 1999, the Community Center Levy provided a $3.9 million construction budget that would create a more enjoyable and user-friendly center for the citizens of Seattle. The levy proposed adding additional play areas, restrooms, locker rooms, new staff offices and a welcoming reception area to the existing building, which was last updated in 1976.
Making the move from contractor to distributor has taught Kenneth Paine priceless lessons during a professional roofing career spanning a quarter-century.
By now, most roofing contractors know the basics about green roofing systems along with their many benefits. What started in Germany more than 40 years ago, but was viewed by many as just a fad for several years in the United States, has now become quite common on rooftops throughout North America. Much of this popularity is the result of the fact that as more and more green roofs have been installed, their benefits and features have been more thoroughly realized, analyzed and reported.
Mergers, acquisitions, consolidations and various other forms of organizational blending that have taken place over the roofing industry’s past have not always been beautiful things. In fact, some ended up looking more like what happens when two trains merge head on at 70 miles per hour.
Randy Kuhn is best known for installing superior low-slope and steep-slope roofing systems in the Chicagoland area since 1978, but a passion for sailing the Great Lakes is also evident, as Kuhn has finished first in his class in the Chicago to Mackinac race on three separate occasions.
With over $106.1 billion in assets, Fifth Third Bancorp is the eleventh largest bank in the country. This diversified financial services company operates 19 affiliates with 1,138 full-service Banking Centers. To help manage its many facilities, Fifth Third counts on property management firm Viox Services, which prides itself on combining the responsiveness of a hometown contractor with the problem-solving resources and expertise of a nationwide facility management company.
The ability of coatings to flow into nearly any kind of roofing project has ensured a responsive industry that quickly fills any roofing void it can find.
Ahead of schedule and under budget are always good phrases to hear, especially at the airport, where it seems like flight service is less and less reliable these days. However, when it comes to the roof at the new terminal at Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport in Romulus, Mich., the job of completing the structure’s new roof is now almost finished, and the roofing phase looks to come in on or ahead of schedule sometime in November.
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