GAF Stays Ahead of a New ‘Green’ Codes

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GAF Materials Corp.
1361 Alps Road
Wayne, NJ, 07470
USA

Press recover date: Oct 27, 2011

Wayne, NJ – Sustainability codes and discipline have done an impact on a construction industry. In roofing, a change of LEED, Title24, Miami 21, Global Cool Cities Alliance, and other programs and initiatives is undeniable. Major skill owners, including a U.S. Navy, have mandated white roofs for their properties; and many some-more skill owners are seeking about sustainability. GAF, North America’s Largest Roofing Manufacturer, has been active with products and services that assistance thatch professionals and skill owners accommodate these standards while providing a building opening that they need. With a adoption of a International Green Construction Code (IgCC) approaching to start as early as 2012 in some jurisdictions, GAF offers a far-reaching operation of products that accommodate or surpass a code’s mandate – such as innovative products like EverGuard® Extreme® TPO – confirming a company’s care purpose in a thatch market.

EverGuard® Extreme® TPO is a initial product designed for applications of solar on rooftops, with well-developed continuance and a reflectivity indispensable for these installations. This continuance creates it an ideal product for any roof, generally where skill owners are looking to accommodate sustainability guidelines, acquire LEED credits, or ready for a destiny solar installation. EverGuard® Extreme® is usually a latest of GAF’s products that supports these new sustainability codes; Energy Cap(TM) BUR and SBS sheets were a initial asphaltic surface products to accommodate a mandate of Title 24 and other white roof standards, and will also accommodate IgCC requirements. Among a many other GAF products that accommodate a mandate of a new formula are Timberline® Cool Series(TM) shingles, TOPCOAT® roof coatings, and GardenScapes(TM) vegetative roofing.

Additionally, GAF offers programs and services that make it easier for contractors to approve with these codes. GAF has addressed origination recycling some-more permitted in a series of ways, including a multi-year sponsorship of a Construction Materials Recycling Association’s (CMRA) Find-A-Recycler territory of shinglerecycling.org, as good as a origination of a Certified Green Contractor program, that rewards contractors for their recycling contributions.

According to Bob Tafaro, President and CEO, “Sustainability means opposite things to opposite people. At GAF we take a useful approach, that means charity a right solutions for a business as good as focusing on regulating resources wisely, potency in operations, and end-of-life outcomes for a products.”

GAF’s operations have led a approach in sustainability. GAF was a initial vital shingle manufacturer to have recycling during any of a shingle plants, and now has dual zero-waste-to-landfill production facilities, with a idea of adding many more. “Our production routine is really resource-efficient,” settled Martin Grohman, Director of Sustainability during GAF. “In further to shingles, a plants recycle metal, cardboard, and oils, as good as bland equipment like batteries, paper, inks and toners, and CFLs.”

While these new codes will continue to meant changes for a construction industry, GAF will continue to lead a approach with products, services, and operations that accommodate a toughest mandate of both a many difficult codes and a many perfectionist skill owners.

To learn some-more about GAF thatch products, revisit www.gaf.com.

About GAF

Now proudly celebrating a 125th year in a industry, GAF has turn a largest thatch manufacturer in North America, with sales of scarcely $3 billion annually. The company’s products embody a endless portfolio of steep-slope and low-slope thatch systems, as good as combination decking, that are upheld by an endless inhabitant network of factory-certified contractors. Its success is driven by a joining to yield skill owners and specifiers with a best and safest choice in thatch and by assisting understanding contractors and distributors to build their businesses and equivocate hassles.

With a concentration on amicable responsibility, GAF has grown Advanced Protection® shingle technology, that provides higher continuance and breeze resistance, while shortening a use of wanting healthy resources. The association has also grown single-ply and asphaltic membranes with higher continuance and high reflectivity to accommodate a many severe attention standards while assisting blurb skill owners and designers revoke appetite consumption.

The Company also supports a thatch attention by CARE, a Center for a Advancement of Roofing Excellence, that has supposing preparation to over 125,000 professionals. CARE’s goal is to assistance veteran contractors and distributors build their businesses by sales and government education, and to yield product and designation training to contractors, distributors, architects, skill owners, and associated attention personnel. For some-more information about GAF, revisit www.gaf.com.

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