Rand Tower, Minneapolis RETROFIT TEAM ROOFING CONTRACTOR: Central Roofing Co. GENERAL CONTRACTOR: Ryan Cos. ARCHITECT: ESG Architecture & Design MATERIALS Eight different roofs had to be replaced on the structure from the 26th to the third floor. “We worked on… Read More
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Building Codes And The Right Roofing
Few, if any, of us were sorry to see the end of 2021. It brought disrupted supply lines, a tight labor market, and a pandemic that roared back at the end of the year with apparent renewed force. Facility managers… Read More
The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act: What’s In It for the Construction Industry?
In the weeks since President Biden signed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, Washington has gone into overdrive. On Capitol Hill, along K Street and in virtually every construction industry association, staff members are poring over the complex legislation—or… Read More
New White House guide breaks down IIJA funding
Dive Brief: The Biden administration released guidance for state and local governments on Jan. 31 to help them identify funding in the recently passed Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA). The document breaks down available money by 12 issue areas… Read More
Sustainability or Resilience: Either or Both?
Here’s a quick question for you: when you are choosing a membrane for a roofing system, how much do you consider the resilience or sustainability of the product? And is one feature more important to you than the other? Regardless… Read More
Florida Condo Collapse Brings Attention to the Importance of Proper Maintenance
On Thursday, June 24, 2021, the Champlain Towers South—a 12-story condo building in the Miami suburb of Surfside, Fla.—suffered a catastrophic failure. The partial collapse of the building killed 98 people and injured many more. Although the full causes of… Read More
NRCA releases EPDM training package
NRCA has made available a new Training for Roof Application Careers package—EPDM Roof Membrane Installation, which provides new and inexperienced workers with the knowledge necessary to work on an EPDM roof system installation crew. More information here.
Resilience And The Built Environment
Record setting heat, catastrophic wildfires, heavy downpours, longer droughts, and more frequent hurricanes: the headlines so far this year have provided relentless coverage of devastating weather throughout the United States. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), as… Read More
Mauna Kea Solar: PV Installation on Hawaii’s Tallest Mountain Provides Lessons in Rooftop Solar
CHANCES ARE, you will never have to install a solar voltaic system on the slope of a dormant volcano, at an altitude of almost 14,000 feet, taking care to place the system’s panels on an Mark Devenot, infrastructure specialist at… Read More
Reconfiguring Mercy Hospital
Back in 2017, Allina Health Mercy Hospital had a problem. The Minnesota health care location had simply run out of space. The solution involved relocating and enlarging the main entrance, reconfiguring the hospital’s interior and adding a parking garage. To… Read More