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While Endureed has left its mark on many projects across the globe, you can trace its roots back to Northern Florida. Headquartered in Lake City, Endureed has proudly manufactured products in the USA for 20 years. By manufacturing all products in-house, Endureed strives to support the U.S. economy and uses environmentally friendly practices to provide high-quality products and services.
Did you know Florida has one of the strictest building codes in the world? The Florida Product Approval was created to help reduce the risk of hurricane damage on building structures throughout the state. This prestigious approval requires products to undergo a rigorous testing schedule in order to ensure they meet certain compliance standards set forth by the Florida Building Code including wind, rain, uplift, impact, nail pullout and pressure ratings.
At Endureed, we’ve had the honor of working with big-name corporations and resorts to provide custom, engineered thatch roofing solutions to meet their needs. From theme parks like SeaWorld and Disney’s Animal Kingdom Lodge to hotels like the Marriott and Embassy Suites, businesses choose Endureed products time and time again.
Our nightmare started in April 2017 at our vacation house in Guatemala. A fire started at our neighbor’s home and quickly passed to ours. This was a home for our family to spend weekends, holidays, and to make memories in. 20 of our closest friends and family managed to run outside the house in time to watch the house of our dreams burn to ashes all because of the natural thatch roof we had.
People too regularly think that natural palm thatch is environmentally friendly, just because it’s compostable. The truth is, by the time it’s sprayed with layers of pesticide and flame retardant chemicals every couple of years, it’s not even a healthy compost material. The truth is the natural palm thatch industry and palm industry has pushed unique species of palms in Madagascar to extinction or near extinction.
If you’re in the market for a new roof, you likely want to know how much you’re looking at. Unfortunately, there are a number of factors that go into the price of a new roof, and it can be hard to find one solid answer to the question of roofing budget. But to help give you a better insight into roof price, we’ll go over what you need to know about roof replacement costs.
Achieving LEED certification really can increase per-room-revenue for hotels and resorts. We discussed the research that indicated the increase in revenue for hotels, which doesn’t even take into consideration utility cost savings of increased efficiency, in a previous blog post. So, today, we summarize LEED Certification levels and categories. Even a local bed and breakfast or small business can often rake in the benefits of a LEED certification, so if you’re planning a business like these, consult with your architect or designer to see if LEED certification may be beneficial.
Think about your worst nightmare as a resort owner. Fire, hurricane, bug and rodent infestation, or maybe worse, negative customer reviews. One high-end resort experienced two of those. The issues were discovered when multiple travel sites began to report stories of rodents and snakes checking in unannounced with their paying guests, the management team at this luxurious resort in Punta Cana, DR knew they needed to take swift action.
