Improving Disaster Mitigation Strategies
This past January, the National Institute of Building Sciences (NIBS), a non-governmental, non-profit organization, reported that for every dollar spent on mitigation efforts to protect…
This past January, the National Institute of Building Sciences (NIBS), a non-governmental, non-profit organization, reported that for every dollar spent on mitigation efforts to protect…
Until early October of this past year, Chester County, South Carolina, was home to a small, single-story house, similar to thousands of houses across the…
Almost five years ago, Hurricane Sandy bore down on New York City with winds that reached gusts of 100 miles an hour and a storm…
As associate executive director of the Washington, D.C.-based EPDM Roofing Association (ERA), I focus a great deal of my time and energy on the codes…
Two years ago, the three low-rise apartment buildings at the intersection of Southern Avenue and Benning Road in Washington, D.C., stood derelict and abandoned, uninhabitable…
During the last decade, the roofing industry has been increasingly impacted by two strong forces: first, rising energy prices with no real end in sight,…
More and more building owners are seeing the light: Roof systems based on historical in situ performance for more than 30 years are the best…
A coalition of trade groups is funding a research project about advanced roofing systems that were installed on an upstate New York correctional facility to…
Earlier this year, the USGBC announced a 16-month extension to register products under LEED 2009, prior to the implementation of LEED v4 on Oct. 31,…
Ellen Thorp, associate executive director of the EPDM Roofing Association, makes it a point to be responsive to the many inquiries she gets. Most deal…