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Five Attic Ventilation Traps to Avoid

Paul Scelsi
March 7, 2011
Use the right type of attic vent for the right project and roofing contractors can expect efficient performance and energy savings from the attic ventilation system. But sometimes roofing professionals become frustrated because they’re stuck in one of the following traps they’d be wiser to avoid.
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Form and Function

Kate Gawlik
December 1, 2010

The Station at Potomac Yard, Alexandria, Va., is the first known building in the United States that combines a fire station, affordable housing and retail. 


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Residential Roofs Can Be Cool, Too

Tom Watts
December 1, 2010
Rod Menzel takes pride in keeping GreatWay Roofing of Moorpark, Calif. on the cutting edge of performing “green” work that coincides with continuous up-to-date changes in Title 24.
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Roofing In America? He Wrote The Book

Chris King
October 12, 2010
Roof consultant Mark Kelly has more than 30 years of experience in the design, construction, restoration and preservation of buildings, and his experiences inspired him to write an in-depth look at the U.S.
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The Net Zero Home

Tom Watts
August 20, 2010
Dow's Solar Shingles Top Energy-Efficient Residential ProjectThe rising cost monthly energy bills might be a thing of the past thanks to a home that essentially sustains itself. Vision Zero -
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Residential Solar: Solar Roofing Kit Designed to Bring Solar to the Masses

Chris King
June 10, 2010
It’s only a matter of time before solar applications will revolutionize the roofing industry, and the sooner roofing contractors see the light, the better off they’ll be.
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'Solar for the Masses'

Chris King
April 7, 2010
It’s only a matter of time before solar applications will revolutionize the roofing industry, and the sooner roofing contractors see the light, the better off they’ll be.
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State of the Industry Survey

Chris King
February 5, 2010
2009 is a year a lot of people are happy to have in their rear-view mirror. As the year drew to a close, some economists pointed to hopeful signs of
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Metal Roofs

Chuck Howard
February 3, 2010
Retrofitting flat roofs with sloped metal roofs is a concept that is tailor-made for these declining economic times. Interestingly, of the 40 billion square feet of roofing annually installed in the United States, only a fraction of that amount entails retrofitting roofs with sloped metal systems.
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