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“Reflective, cool roofs are environmentally responsible when properly insulated and installed in warmer climates. Roofing, like most industries, has many solutions to accommodate many sets of circumstances. The media must be responsible when looking for ways to conserve energy and… Read More

The days when heating and cooling costs were a relatively insignificant line item on a facility manager’s budget are long gone. Oil prices, though lower than they were last year, remain high and extremely unstable. Natural gas and coal prices… Read More

American consumers are always looking for value, and we love to have options. Fast food restaurants with their medium, large, and supersize value meals are perfect examples of our desire for choice. Maybe that’s one of the reason that single-ply… Read More

The EPDM Roofing Association retained the services of Jim D. Koontz & Associates, Inc. to perform laboratory testing on 81 test targets provided by the association. The targets varied in age and substrate. The samples were impacted with ice spheres… Read More

“The roof is becoming a more complex, challenging, and important component of any number of buildings, but especially so for schools and universities. The current economic climate, the growing presence of energy producing systems (solar panels or wind turbines), the… Read More

The issue is even more simple than black and white. The days when heating and cooling costs were a relatively insignificant item on a school’s budget are long gone. The price of oil, natural gas, and coal are high, extremely… Read More

The small, common stones used as roof ballast possess few individual attributes worthy of extensive examination. But the combined effect of these small stones has been gigantic within the roofing industry.

Paddy Chayefsky once said: “I’m mad as hell, and I’m not going to take it anymore.” This statement might best describe how I feel about the current state of the roofing industry. Never in my 25 years of involvement with… Read More

SPRI, the association representing sheet membrane and component suppliers to the commercial roofing industry, has released a final report on a joint study with the Department of Energy, entitled: Evaluating the Energy Performance of Ballasted Roof Systems.  

Currently, cool roofs comply with the U.S Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) ENERGY STAR@ roofing products standards. In addition, U.S. states (such as California, through its Title 24 Energy Code [CEC]) prescribe cool roofs as part of the base case building… Read More