Composite Image | Solar Panel & Engineered Thatch In recent years, the world has experienced a growing concern for the environment and the need to reduce our carbon footprint. One of the most effective ways to achieve this is by harnessing the power of the sun through the installation of [...]
Sitting in the office of Rick Schwartz, President of the Nashville Zoo, one begins to understand his passion for his work. Hundreds of books and journals line the shelves and describe thousands of animal species, chronicle their behaviors and explore the survival needs of both wildlife and wild places. Scale [...]
As you caravan through grazing giraffes, splashing hippos and quaint African huts, you engage in the safari experience of a lifetime. However, you are not in sub-Saharan Africa on this journey—you are at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park. A recent project at the San Diego Zoo incorporated 10,000 square [...]
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 [...]
When designers integrate green building strategies into their projects, they maximize environmental performance. Plus, they maximize economic performance. Plenty of other benefits also exist. For example, green building protects biodiversity and ecosystems. It improves air and water quality. It conserves natural resources. Green building also reduces operation costs and improves [...]
Designers of commercial buildings are choosing Endureed Regions Series synthetic thatch to appeal to the growing pool of eco-conscious consumers. The beauty and natural feel of our products is far from the only reason to choose these roofing products though. Thermoplastic Resin Endureed’s Regions series shingles are made using thermoplastic resins. [...]
You will hear people say that a thatch roof made of natural water reed will last four or five decades. That sounds impressive, right? It's not quite that simple though. While you can retain parts of the roof for that long, around every eight years you will need to completely [...]
We've discussed wind uplift in previous blog posts. Wind uplift happens when high winds come into contact with a building and pit pressure against it by pushing the air upwards. In high velocity hurricane zones especially, quality roofing and installation is incredibly important to prevent wind uplift damage. If pressure builds [...]
High winds from hurricanes regularly expose roofing flaws like insufficient bracing or shingles installed without wind zone concern. Actually, hard data indicates that on average, every dollar spent on storm-related upgrades can spare a home and commercial building six dollars worth of storm-related costs. Hurricane-Force Winds Expose Poor Installation & [...]
Hurricane Lane's destruction in Hawaii has many searching for roof replacements suitable for High Velocity Hurricane Zones. As background, we'd like to explain that Florida, due to its vulnerability to hurricanes, passed a statewide building code in 2002 with new requirements. It requires buildings to have products rated for winds [...]
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