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Project Profiles
Historic Wisconsin Church Gets A New Crown With Matterhorn® Slate From Certainteed
By CertainTeed. Until recently, the roof of St. John’s Lutheran Church in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, had seen better days. After about 30 years of wear and exposure to high winds, the church’s asphalt roof had started to fail. “The building itself was built in 1956, though the congregation was established in 1885,” said ...
Amazing Berowra Community Led Us to Stormseal
By Stormseal. Like many unsuspecting Berowra Heights residents, a massive storm hit the home of Todd and Jo Chapman, their two kids and dog Cody – just before Christmas on December 20, 2018 – the worst gift you could possibly receive at this festive time. To make things worse, the Chapman family ...
Project Profile - Roma High School’s Roof
By METALCON. More than 2,300 squares of beautiful, red standing seam metal was installed on the school. As featured in DesignandBuildwithMetal.com’s recent issue, instead of doing more “band-aid” fixes to Roma High School’s roof, the school board opted to do a full replacement of the original tile roof with 233,335 square feet ...
MONOKOTE® and Grace Ice & Water Shield® Protect Airport
By GCP Applied Technologies. Incheon International Airport utilizes MONOKOTE® and Grace Ice & Water Shield® Located on Yeongjong island, about 50 km from Seoul, South Korea, the Incheon International Airport is 60 times the size of a football field and boasts the second tallest control tower in the world. Its two runways ...
An Architect’s Home From the Roof to Windows
By GCP Applied Technologies. Retired architect builds his dream lake home and shares his product tips. Dan Meehan, an architect in Ohio, is building his dream retirement home on Lake Erie, complete with beautiful views of the water and surrounding nature. He designed his home on a lot that is no more ...
Project Profile - Amtrak Railyard Rensselaer, New York
By USG. Updating an aging railway building to be safe and compliant. After decades of damage caused by rain, wind and industrial debris, the Amtrak Railyard building in Rensselaer, New York, was in desperate need of a new roof. The existing metal roof was starting to give way. Amtrak needed a simple, ...
Survivor Story: How One Home Remains Standing after Hurricane Michael Devastates Port St. Joe, Florida
By DaVinci Roofscapes. When Hurricane Michael came pounding into the Florida Panhandle last year he brought with him winds upward of 150 mph. As recommended, Port St. Joe resident George Fleet evacuated his oceanfront home. When he returned he was stunned … his was the only completely intact beachfront house standing for ...
Duncan Aviation Project: Phase II
By GREENLINK Engineering. This job was the second phase of an earlier project involving the roof of an airplane maintenance facility. This phase II project required replacing aging wood sleepers supporting 400 feet of a roof-mounted gas line. The roof was built with an upper and lower section each ...
Project Profile - Gateway Medical Center
By IB Roof Systems. Green building designs and materials can prove to be good medicine. Selecting green products for new hospital construction can have a positive impact on patient outcomes and the productivity of its medical staff. Therefore the owners of the 12,000-squarefoot LEED-certified hospital within the Gateway Medical Center in Washington State ...
Mesa School District's New IB Roof
By IB Roof Systems. The school's old roof no longer proved functional: it had simply worn out and was now leaking everywhere. Kids, teachers, secretaries, nurses, the vice-principal and the principal diligently pulling the invisible strings of education to make everything run as it should. Hundreds of people, and yet not one of ...
