Category: Environment Friendly
Roofing and the environment
Roof Services to build a roof terrace in NYC.
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Dyami Plotke is the Repair & Maintenance Division Manager for Roof Services, Inc. a Long Island based roofing company with considerable experience installing roof membrane systems under green roofs.
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The roofing industry with the rest of the construction world is only starting to implement procedures for material separation at the job site so they can be recycled. In most cases all of the roofing debris was placed into a single dumpster and put in a landfill.
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We have seen a wide variation of “Green” improvements and the benefits ranging from almost nothing to the very substantial. You need to be careful because you might think that you are installing a green roof when you are in actuality getting very little green benefit. In order for a roofing assembly to truly be “Green” it follows one or all of these three basic tenants.
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The mission of the Green Roof Alliance is to promote awareness and opportunities in the green roof industry as well as being a resource to building owners and design firms for green roofing. The organization was formed in early 2010 with the objective to identify green roofing projects and promote them to the public. In addition to educating the public the Alliance wanted to develop into a “hands on” resource for the green roof industry.
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Roof Services is pro-active in seeking out and building relationships with other companies that we believe can be mutually beneficial to our clients. About 2 years ago we began a relationship with
Green Logic Energy, a solar energy company serving the same general area which includes Long Island and the New York City metropolitan area.
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By utilizing a self-adhesive flat roof system, building owners and occupants can enjoy the same long term water-tight integrity of traditional flat roof systems without the disruption and inconvenience often associated with roof installation.
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If your roof is getting old and needs to be replaced why not replace it with an environmentally friendly roof. There are numerous choices available in green roofing.
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