Architectural Roofing and Waterproofing

Trade shows are wonderful ways to meet new people, find out about new products, network with your peers, and take advantage of educational sessions. The downsides, as we know, are crowded plane flights, travel costs and aching feet. Virtual trade shows are designed to provide the advantages of a trade show from the convenience of your computer.

by Chris King | July 30, 2010 |

Watts Up: Global Green Expo

On Aug. 5, BNP Media will host Global Green Expo, an online event designed to place information, peers and solution providers at your fingertips.

by Tom Watts | July 19, 2010 |

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Leave the Safety Railings to Us
Liberty Lines Inc. is one of the largest privately owned transportation companies in New York. Headquartered in Yonkers, the company has 750 employees and operates a fleet of 350 vehicles.

by Chris King

Metal Roofs
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.

by Chuck Howard

Bringing Roofs to Life
Rooftop gardens or living roofs offer several environmental advantages. Their increased use in urban areas has been due their ability to decrease water runoff from the roof area. The primary intent of the living roof application is to filter the stormwater and minimize the stormwater runoff from reaching the underground infrastructure.

by John A. D’Annunzio

Feature Article

Calculating the Costs of Solar
As homeowners, commercial entities and other organizations look to “go green” to reduce their energy consumption, costs and overall carbon footprint, solar power has emerged as an attractive form of alterative energy.

by James E. Trant P.E.

On Target
The Target Center in downtown Minneapolis, home of the Minnesota Timberwolves NBA team, is now also home to the largest vegetated roof in the state.

by Jayendran Srinivasan

Residential Solar: Solar Roofing Kit Designed to Bring Solar to the Masses
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.

by Chris King

AEC Store Featured Product

Basic and Advanced Roof Framing DVD

2 DVDS for ONLY $79.95

Basic Roof Framing covers, calculating rise, run and pitch, laying out and cutting common and hip rafters. 1 hour and 47 minutes

Advanced Roof Framing covers: the use of an architect scale, planning and design of an irregular hip roof, finding the irregular framing point, calculating cheek cuts, shortenings and setbacks with the use of your draft. Also complicated angles for jack rafters, facia, and irregular hip rafters can all be figured on the same draft. 1 hour and 29 minutes

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Best Practices: Mastering the Art of Roof Inspections
Regular roof inspections and maintenance are the keys to realizing the full life cycle of a roofing system, and that’s good for an architect’s reputation as well as the environment.

by James R. Birdsong

Drawing Board: Principles of Management for Uncertain Times
We are in the midst of the worst economic crisis of our lifetime and no one can accurately predict how long this crisis will last and what the long-term ramifications will be.

by John A. D'Annunzio

Legally Speaking: Tax Incentives For Next Generation Solar Technologies
Solar power is gaining momentum for widespread use in the United States, assisted in part by income tax credits at the federal level.

by Lindsay Kitzinger
Daniel W. Luchsinger

Architect of the Month

Architect Profile: Reinhard Schneider
Reinhard Schneider was just a young man working the night shift at the Ford Motor Co. plant when he decided a career in engineering and architecture was more his style.

by Tom Watts

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