Ron Dutton is president of Ron Dutton Consulting Services in Annapolis, Md. He provides technical services for new product development, field failure analysis and product training for the metal construction and appliance industries. He can be reached at 443-569-2030 or ron.dutton@verizon.net.
For more than 25 years, visual field inspection surveys of low-slope roofing have been conducted on a regular basis by roofing industry professionals in attempts to get a handle on the expected service life of Galvalume sheet roofing panels.