The project called for a full new roof on the building – about 100,000 square feet in total. While otherwise a straightforward project, the weather posed the biggest challenge to completion.

If PVC is categorized as hazardous waste, the EPA would have to develop a comprehensive framework to ensure its treatment, storage and disposal. This would likely be very costly, burdensome and particularly hit small businesses hard.

The world’s demand of Polyvinylidene Fluoride to make high-performance industrial coatings is affecting capacity.

In 2022, insured losses from hailstorms topped $10 billion in the United States for the 15^th year in a row. Hailstorms account for 70 percent of the average annual property losses from severe convective storms in the U.S., according to the National Center for Atmospheric Research.

Our special coatings section is back and bigger than ever before. Browse through technical articles including a thought piece on making building materials last longer, and how owners and managers of commercial buildings are looking for ways to lower their building's energy consumption. 

Rainwater mitigation and insulating goals can both be achieved in low-slope or flat roofs with optimized, project-specific tapered polyisocyanurate insulation panel designs and systems.

Extensive water damage from an aging roof threatened to destroy treasured artifacts housed at the McLean County Museum of History in Downtown Bloomington, Ill.

Brickell Terrace is a five-story condo complex situated minutes from the beach in the Brickell area in trendy Downtown Miami. The roof was due for a complete replacement, having numerous areas of leakage and having undergone repairs multiple times.

When Very Severe Hail requirements were introduced to the roofing industry, it was as if all hail was about to break loose!

Harnessing the power of solar energy, Associated Grocers of New England is setting the standard for wholesale and retail businesses in New Hampshire and beyond with its commitment to improving the sustainability of its business.