The Magdalena Grand Beach and Golf Resort in Tobago, West Indies, is a former hotel that suffered damage from the effects of a highly aggressive marine environment. As a result, in 2009, the hotel required substantial rehabilitative work. Lifetime Roofing Ltd., Arima, Trinidad, was contracted by the Tobago government to take on the massive project. For its ingenuity, Lifetime Roofing was selected as a 2014 Gold Circle Awards finalist in the Innovative Solutions: Reroofing category.
<i>The NRCA Roofing Manual: Membrane Roof Systems—2015</i> was released in March and updates and replaces <i>The NRCA Roofing Manual: Membrane Roof Systems—2011</i>.
As a result of environmental concerns and regulations regarding solvent-based single-ply adhesives, the use of water-based and low-volatile organic compound solvent-based adhesives is becoming much more popular in the low-slope roofing market. Research conducted by Johns Manville, Denver, has found when temperatures and dew points converge, drying times of water-based adhesives significantly are extended. When this happens, performance issues in the field tend to increase.
Arizona has agreed to comply with OSHA's residential fall-protection rules after the agency threatened to take over enforcement of the state's construction regulations.
