Building Operating Management September 2011 - FacilitiesNet

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SEPTEMBER 2011
ROOFING
SIKA SARNAFIL
The project team
for the new
248,000-square-foot
building for Stansbury
High School in
Stansbury Park, Utah,
used several LEED
strategies, including
a reflective roof.
A New Roofing
Golden Age?
Environmental regulations are spurring the roofing
industry to make changes to practices and products
by john d’annunzio
For a comprehensive list
of roofing-related codes
and standards, visit:
www.coolroofs.org/codes_
and_programs.html
In the last decade there has been an
intensive effort in the United States
to address health, safety and environmental
issues in relation to roofing
materials. Driven by codes, regulations
and concerns about depletion
of natural resources, the industry has
developed technologies and materials
that will be used from this point
forward. Facility managers who understand
these new materials and
codes will be in the best position to
take advantage of innovations that are
reshaping the roofing industry.
As we enter the second decade of
the 21st century, many modifications
are being made to low-slope roofing
systems. The recent changes are minor
modifications compared to the vast
changes that occurred near the end of
the 1990s. In the time period from the
1980s through the end of the 1990s, the
low-slope roofing market witnessed its
greatest changes in materials and technologies
since World War II.
The changes — which included
advances in single-ply and modified
bitumen systems, as well as the
reduction in use of hot-applied systems
and increased use of cold-applied
and self-adhered membranes
— were largely driven by econom-