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Project Profiles
Growing the Future - Atlas Helps Historic Wisconsin Farm.
Atlas helps historic Wisconsin farm. By Angie Lewis, Atlas Roofing. By 2050, food production will need to increase by 50 percent, according to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization. Young farmers can play a key role in meeting that demand, which is why facilities such as Silverwood Park in Dane County, ...
Duro-Last®, Inc. Recognizes Parsons Commercial Roofing with 2017 Roof of the Year for the Sonora Independent School District Project
The project included the installation of both Duro-Last® membrane and EXCEPTIONAL® Metals standing seam roof panels. Sonora Independent School District in Sutton County, Texas is home to over 900 students and faculty. When a strong hail storm passed through the area in April 2016, causing extensive damage to homes and businesses, ...
Project Profile: GREEN LINK Replaces Rooftop Pipe System with Custom Molded Saddles on a Steel Corrugated Roof of an Airplane Maintenance Facility
This project involved a combination of standard KnuckleHead Lite Pipe, Heavy Pipe and Strut Supports along with GREEN LINK custom-molded products that were engineered to fit the specific demands of the roof structure. An airplane maintenance facility located in southwestern Michigan required replacement of its rooftop pipe system, which utilized wood ...
AccuTrac Triples Productivity at Staples Roof Installation
Roof crew triples productivity during faster installation with OMG Roofing Products system. Nation's Roof must've felt like they hit the Staples Easy Button™ when they started using the AccuTrac insulation fastening system on a reroofing project on the Staples Distribution Center in Montgomery, New York. The office products company was replacing ...
Polyglass Project Profile: Fort Belvoir Military Base
The Polyglass system replaced an aging TPO roof. Fort Belvoir Military Base, located in Northern Virginia, is now home to a Polyglass® multi-ply modified bitumen roof system. Northern Virginia Roofing proposed the Polyglass system to replace a 60,000- square-foot aged TPO roof. The new roof system features mechanically –fastened Polyglass G2 ...
Duro-Last®, Inc. Recognizes The Duerson Corporation with 2017 Sustainability Award
Because of The Duerson Corporation’s dedication to sustainable practices, thousands of pounds of materials were diverted from landfills and thousands of dollars were saved in disposal costs. When Pella Regional Health Center needed to add a third-floor expansion onto their existing facility to accommodate their growing obstetrician services, they contacted The ...
Global Archery Metal-Over-Metal Retrofit
The deteriorating metal roof was putting the building’s inventory at risk and a retrofit was needed. By Roof Hugger. Global Archery’s business has grown over the years. Headquartered in an older 1980’s vintage metal building in Ashley, Indiana, the existing roof had several penetrations for equipment that had long since been abandoned. ...
Duro-Last® Recognizes Commonwealth Building Systems, LLC with 2017 Edge-to-Edge & Deck-to-Sky™ Award
The award is for a new roofing system designed to stand up to the wind gusts that come in off the nearby Massachusetts Bay and Charles River. The CBRE Group, Inc., property, located at the foot of the busy Longfellow Bridge in Cambridge, Massachusetts – across the river from Boston ...
DECRA Villa Tile Increased Energy Efficiency by Lowering Kilowatt Usage 15 Percent
The stone-coated steel roofing resembling barrel tile enhanced the home’s appearance, increased energy efficiency and is now available in a new color – Tuscan Sun. Is your roof energy efficient? Determining the particular contribution of the roof to the energy efficiency of a home is not an exact science. ...
Western Colloid Rose to the Challenge on the 200-foot Tall Molina Tower
Five years after the initial installation, the Western Colloid system is standing up to the salty climate and winds. In 2013, the twin Molina Towers, located in the Long Beach Harbor district in Southern California, needed to do something about its severely aging roof. After much evaluation, a Western ...
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