Nashua New Hampshire, high school students design and build a re-usable roof for the Nashua Fire Department at their fire rescue training facility at the city landfill. Nashua high school administrators approached the fire department with an offer to let the students work on the fire department building. The students designed a reusable 48 square […]
The city of Industry in California is making plans to build solar paneled carports, and electric car charging stations at the Metrolink public transportation station. The plan is for 1,000 carports, which would have space for 500 cars in the northwest corner of the parking lot. Southern California Edison will purchase power from the 2 […]
Nearly 4 acres of solar panels have been installed on parking canopies at the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Gardens. The zoo project is the nation’s largest solar display available to the public. The solar project took approximately 3 months to complete. Workers installed the last solar display on Friday. All the engineers, contractors and subcontractors […]
Tucson Electric Power Company may have one option for the budget crisis in our public schools. They are offering the “Bright Roofs Program” to the school systems in Tucson, Arizona. TEP is proposing to lease school and other public building rooftops to develop new grid connected solar panel systems. The goal is to help participating […]
At 9:30 a.m. on Thursday, March 24, 2011, a portion of the roof collapsed at the Golden Living Center on Scenic Highway in Lawrenceville, Georgia. The roof crashed down over the dining area where the construction crews were working on that section. The contractors, workers, staff and residents were all accounted for and no one […]
Work began Thursday to replace the storm damaged Minneapolis Metrodome roof. Although the Vikings continue to push for a new stadium, repairs will be made to the 29 year old fiberglass roof. The roof collapsed in December 2010 from the weight of snow during a blizzard. The insurer, Affiliated FM will pay a total of […]
It’s that time of year for most of us to think about removing the snow from our rooftops. It’s hard to leave the warm comfort of our homes, bundle up and rake or shovel the snow off of our roofs, but remember “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” It is generally […]
The Obama administration issued an executive order for the $4.5 billion stimulus to be spent by next September to pay for environmentally friendly, high performance green buildings and renovation projects within the U.S. government. The federal government is the largest energy consumer in the U.S., the renovations are an attempt to trim the $25 billion […]
About 1,000 delegates from around the world have been attending the green roof conference in Vancouver, British Columbia. From November 30 to December 3, at the 8th annual CitiesAlive green roof and green wall technology conference at Vancouver Convention Center. Jointly organized by Science World and B.C. Institute of Technology. One of the reasons Vancouver […]
Nashville Tenn. gets asphalt recycling center, turning roofs into roadways. This is the first asphalt recycling facility to open in Nashville, as an ongoing alliance between Heritage Environmental Services and Owens Corning Roofing and Asphalt. Contractors can drop off old shingles which in turn get ground up and used in paving material for local roads. […]
