Apr

7

The idea of cool roofs and cool pavement bouncing more of the sun’s heat back into space has been around for years. It has long been known that white roofs in Greece and Spain keep buildings cooler –and help counteract against the urban heat island effect.

Until now, nobody has tried to quantify how much atmospheric cooling could be achieved. In 2004, three California energy experts started to run the numbers. At first they could not believe their eyes — they re-checked them and ran them in different ways with unambiguous results.
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Jan

7

In July of 2008, the Seattle Jobs Initiative released their Job Trends Report with a spotlight on “green jobs”. Estimates predict that investments in the green economy in Washington State could as much as quadruple the number of green jobs by the year 2020.

The industries which contain many of the blue-collar jobs going green are Construction, Manufacturing, and Utilities. The green-collar jobs are the same blue-collar jobs that have been around for decades, including roofers.
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Apr

28

A cool roof can be defined in many ways by people or by different municipal codes. At the end of the day, however, a cool roof reflects and emits the sun’s heat back skyward without allowing it to pass into the building or home. The more sun it reflects and emits, the cooler the roof.

Cool Roofs - Reflectivity & EmissivenessRating a cool roof is done with two properties — solar reflectance and thermal emittance. Both properties are measured on a scale from 0 to 1, where 0.90 is the same as 90%. Higher values of solar reflectance & thermal emittance are considered to be cooler.
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Apr

26

For citizens of Vancouver BC the beginning of the year brought them a landfill ban from Metro Vancouver Regional District. They were no longer able to dispose of used passenger or truck tires.

Until an unimplemented tire recycling plan is in place the tires have no place to go. To help ease the over abudancy and possibly deter illegal dumping, a Vancouver BC roofing company decided to take action with a free used tire collection service — The Big Eco Tire Toss program.
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Apr

18

Aerial View of WaMu Center Roof GardenHigh atop the Washington Mutual Center’s 17th floor lies a roof garden with awesome views of Seattle and Elliot Bay. The green roof serves as a vital social space and is the civic heart of the bank’s downtown campus.
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Apr

10

Finding quality bloggers who write about the Roofing Industry is challenging. Quite frankly they are few and far between. In the past few days of searching, I have come across several that were no more than spam efforts of cut and paste jobs from a popular free article site.
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Feb

26

Japanese brewer Suntory Ltd. said it had created an alternative to soil to help keep cities green. Applications include soil to cover roofs and walls for greenery — green roofs.

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