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Curious about Zone 4 wind speed counties in the United States? County officials declare their official wind speeds when they adopt local building codes generally. However, the wind speeds should reflect those stated by the recent publications from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). Sometimes several wind speeds apply in very large cities. See, [...]

You may have seen windstorm classification ratings like as 1-60, 1-90 or 1-120. Building owners and sometimes even uninformed contractors too often correlate these classification ratings to wind speeds of 60, 90 or 120 miles per hour (mph).  Yet, they're incorrect! When you see a windstorm classification rating, it's actually talking about wind uplift pressures [...]

Soprema, top producer of waterproofing materials for roofs, broke ground on its new plant in Woodstock. The Soprema plant is already accepting resumes and plans to open this year. The plants goes up in the business park on about 15 acres of land in Woodstock. The plant will host a new production line geared towards increasing [...]

More people than ever demand solar roofing in the United States. By 2022, the forecast estimates 835,000 squares of solar roofing. By 2037? Projections indicate a whopping 3.4 million squares to top American roofs. This is according to the Freedonia Group market research. People choose green these days. We can't say we blame them. Endureed [...]

The Global Waterproofing Roofing Membrane Market Report 2018 gives an in-depth analysis of all things related to waterproofing membranes in the roofing industry. It assesses trends, new technologies, the market, standardization, regulation, case studies, projections and much more. It contains historical data and anticipated future trends in waterproofing membranes. The study is divided by application/end [...]

The Greensboro tornado left a path of destruction. It's been a few weeks not. Yet, many Greensboro tornado victims aren't home yet.  According to  Spectrum News Charlotte, Xactimate's data on the area's potentially outdated. See, the insurance companies use Xactimate to compile estimates.  The last survey of that zip code happened two years ago. The [...]

Did you know that roofers in Missouri currently have no government entity regulating them? That might soon change though. One of just six states in the U.S. with no licensing requirement for roofing companies, the Missouri House debated creating a voluntary registration system. A bill in the Missouri House hopes to encourage roofing companies carry [...]

Many roofing companies now use aerial photography maps to locate potential clients and give fairly accurate quotes without having to travel to the site. Instant access to aerial photography lets roofers scan residential and commercial properties for prospective work. This helps roofers reach out to customers before those same property owners reach out to another [...]

The United States' roofing demands indicate a need for more roofers.  Rich Abel, VP and a fourth-generation owner of Banner Supply Co. Inc. in Ohio, told Business Journal Daily that there's a short supply of these tradesmen. "Locally, we expect this year to be busy. There’s a backlog from the fall of last year. So most [...]