Sustainable Roofing

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Four similar buildings at a correction facility presented a perfect opportunity to compare roof performance.

Learn how to turn green practice into green profit for your business.

These products really put the "green" in green roofing.

CSO Architects leads the green reinvention of The Commons in Columbus, Indiana.

Stephen Chu stated that all rooftops should be painted white. Is he right?

Most, if not all, of us have experienced the woes of trying to find a parking space at an event.

According to Robert Marshall, president of Marshall Roofing & Sheet Metal Co. Inc. in Peabody, Mass., ensuring top-notch work comes down to communication.

In an effort to improve the coordination of roofing systems and PV solar installations, we have established an ongoing Rooftop PV Task Force that is developing useful guidelines for the mounting and anchorage of PV systems to both low-slope and steep-slope roofs.

In the realm of building environmentally responsible rooftops, there are a number of means to an end: high R-value insulation layers, highly reflective roof surfaces, vegetative systems, photovoltaic arrays and solar thermal (i.e., hot water) systems. All