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ProSlate Clay Roofing - BUILDING PRODUCTS Magazine (2/11/2009)
- ProSlate clay roofing offers the look of natural slate and is lightweight, strong, and durable, the maker says. The roofing carries a Class A fire rating, and is 100 percent recyclable. It is available in light gray, dark gray, charcoal, and green. 800-252-9548.
- Options Open When Roofing A House
- Intelligencer Journal (1/23/2009)
- A house's roof is its umbrella, its cozy fleece hat, its security blanket.According to Krimmel, when Grove is called out to homes to analyze problems this time of year, the issues often are caused by ice damming along roof edges and in the valleys. The bad news, according to Krimmel, is that asphalt shingles will cost 10 to 15 percent more as of Feb. 1.
- Soffit System
- BUILDING PRODUCTS Magazine (1/18/2009)
- The 4-inch-wide Soffit System, created in partnership with Intex Millwork, is safer to carry up a ladder and easy for an individual to install, the company says. It has tongue-and-groove edges and is available in vented and non-vented configurations. Three sizes are available. 800-330-2239.
- Fancy Shake Synthetic Roofing Shingles
- BUILDING PRODUCTS Magazine (1/13/2009)
- Fancy Shake synthetic roofing shingles offer the look of cedar shingles. The fade-resistant shingles come in four color blends with subtle color variances, and they can be customized with specific color blends. The shingles, which also can be installed as siding, come in three widths. 800-328-4624.
- DaVinci Roofscapes Introduces New Bellaforte Roofing Tiles at 2009 International Roofing Expo
- (1/9/2009)
- DaVinci Roofscapes will introduce the new Bellaforte slate product line at the 2009 International Roofing Expo in Las Vegas on February 3 - 5, 2009 in booth #1457. The new synthetic tiles incorporate several patented features, are interlocking, overlapping and self-locating, and will be available in a 12-inch profile. The patented Bellaforte roofing tiles use a third less material than traditional synthetic and natural slate shingles. They simplify installation and lower the overall cost for roofing contractors and homeowners. Demonstrations will take place in the DaVinci booth showcasing the simplicity of installation of the new Bellaforte roofing tiles.
- Economy Squeezes Out Solar Installation Companies See Business Tumble; Xcel Credit Cut a Factor
- Rocky Mountain News (12/30/2008)
- Blake Jones hastily called a meeting last month to discuss Namaste Solar's plunging sales of solar panels, its generous culture and uncertain future."In general, we are adding extra caution," Jones, Namaste's chief executive officer, said.Most of Colorado's 200 or so solar companies are in the same boat as Namaste: They are trying to figure out how to change course in a rapidly deteriorating economy.
- National Coatings Responds to the Need for LEED
- Business Wire (12/8/2008)
- National Coatings Corporation (NCC) responds to LEED-certified products becoming a standard in the commercial roofing industry.This year, NCC created a LEED product chart containing all of their LEED-certified products for building and design professionals to easily understand and refer to. NCC products can help earn multiple LEED (www.usgbc.org) and Green Globe Points (www.thegbi.org).
- Requiring Solar on New Development: Bright Idea?
- The Bakersfield Californian (12/7/2008)
- Dec. 7--Is it time for Kern's rooftops to become power producers? Requiring solar electric panels on new homes and businesses hasn't been pushed by county supervisors yet but that may change after the board was provided a set of options by county planners this past week on possible ways to boost the number solar-equipped homes. The information was provided in response to a request early this year from Supervisors Don Maben and Jon McQuiston for information on the possibility of creating an ordinance to mandate solar on new development projects.
- Cedar Shake Roofing
- REPLACEMENT CONTRACTOR Magazine (12/4/2008)
- The maker's InSpire product line now includes composite Cedar Shake Roofing. Using a manufacturing process that incorporates molds cast from real hand-split cedar, the recyclable resin-and-limestone composite shakes feature rich detail, minus the rotting, warping, cracking, and bowing associated with natural wood. The material is also designed to protect, featuring a Class A fire rating, Class 4 hail rating, and 110-mph wind uplift rating. 800.971.4148.
- Changing the Solar Power Game: "Near Perfect" Absorption of Sunlight, From All Angles
- Chemical Engineering Progress (12/1/2008)
- A new antireflective coating has overcome two major hurdles facing solar energy - boosting the amount of sunlight captured by solar panels and allowing those panels to absorb the entire solar spectrum from nearly any angle. "To get maximum efficiency when converting solar power into electricity, you want a solar panel that can absorb nearly every single photon of light, regardless of the sun's position in the sky," says Shawn-Yu Lin, the Wellfleet Constellation Chair professor of physics at Rensselaer. An untreated silicon solar cell absorbs only 67.4% of the sunlight that hits the panel - meaning that nearly one-third of that sunlight is reflected away and cannot be harvested.
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