Roofing

Stone Wool: The Next Generation in Roofing Insulation
Used in Europe for decades, stone wool roof insulation is now available in the North American roofing market. Stone wool insulation is manufactured from natural basalt rock and recycled slag. The product offers unique and valuable characteristics for roofing including outstanding long-term thermal resistance, fire resistance, dimensional stability, water management, sound absorption and puncture resistance. Stone wool roofing product can be used for roofing on new buildings, re-roofing, and recover applications. It is compatible with most all roofing systems, air/vapor barriers, membranes, fasteners, and adhesives and is an excellent choice in tapered design systems.
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Demand for Green
Environmental factors have taken a greater role in the design, material selection and construction of today’s buildings. For this reason, architects, building owners, general contractors and specifyers are partnering to develop and retrofit buildings that focus on sustainable practices such as LEED and BOMA’s BESt programs. Roofing manufacturers continue to develop products with consideration of recycled and recyclable content all the while maintaining quality and durability of the products. There is also an increased demand for highly reflective membranes which are now being carried by most manufacturers. Some are further developing their membranes for performance improvements.
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Urban Transformation
One of the first things that strikes you as you look over top of Vancouver's newest sustainable community, Millennium Water (2010 Olympic Games Athlete's Village), is how noticeably green it is. The many rooftops scattered across eight city blocks are covered in vegetation. Roughly 50 per cent of each residential parcel square footage has vegetative coverage, a requirement by the City of Vancouver that aids in achieving various LEED credits.
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The Values of Roof Consulting Services
For owners to effectively manage their buildings or components they first have to know how much roof they have, what it consists of and its general condition. A professional roof consultant can inventory and develop an identification system for the complex, keeping in mind that the roof assemblies may be different for each section of roof. With this information the roof consultant can assist the owner in developing a long-term solution of their roofing needs.
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