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.
Replacing the weathered built-up roof at Mission San Jose High School in Fremont, Calif., could have been a financial burden for this school district’s budget. But replacing it with a cool roof system that incorporates polyesters, SBS modified, and cool coatings helped the district save money while teaching the community about green initiatives.
Reducing utility costs makes financial sense, preserves natural resources and helps the environment. But renewables and other green technologies have the added allure of allowing building owners to not only conserve energy but generate power as well.
As part of a $12.5 million renovation designed to free the historic Friends Center in Center City Philadelphia from reliance on fossil fuels, the campus of buildings now boasts a 10,000-square-foot vegetated roof - the first in Center City and the largest in Philadelphia.
One green corporation’s search for an environmentally friendly roofing system is complete after Sharp provided roof-mounted solar modules for the nation’s largest commercial solar electricity system at Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, Calif.
The "cool roofing" concept is hardly a new one, having been recognized by organizations such as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) since the mid-1990s. Much time and effort have been expended to not only educate all concerned parties about this concept, but to encourage them to deploy products that "produce" cool roofing.
GlasKap® CR, Johns Manville’s white acrylic coated fiber glass cap sheet, allowed Enterprise Roofing to meet California’s Title 24 energy code requirements.
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