The EPDM Roofing Association, (ERA), as part of its advocacy work on the issue of VOC regulations, is monitoring the countdown to the Jan. 1, 2012 full implementation VOC regulations in key Northeast and Mid-Atlantic States.
Contractors and architects in search of sustainable and energy-efficient roofing products increasingly face a broad range of new choices. But a recent study suggests that a frontrunner in the race to be green may be one of the most tried and true products in the marketplace.
Energy efficiency, re-use, and recyclability are buzzwords in the roofing industry, and while such terms have a tendency to lose their meaning over time, some in the business take them very seriously. With landfill space at a premium, recycling has become much more than a fad.
The historic Kent County Administration Building in Grand Rapids, Mich., began its road to renovation with a new roofing system specified to replace an aging modified bitumen roofing system.