RedVector
RV-W073124
07/31/2024: LIVE INTERACTIVE WEBINAR, Low-Slope Commercial Roofing Types and Materials - Second Repeat Presentation, Wednesday, July 31, 2024, 12pm-1pm Eastern
Course Objectives
At the end of this webinar you will be able to:
- Review the history of commercial roofing in the United States, and identify the key performance drivers in the development and diversification of modern low-slope commercial roofing systems, including health and safety concerns associated with traditional roofing systems.
- Understand each of the major types of commercial roofing systems available today for low-slope commercial buildings, identify their specific performance strengths and weaknesses and understand how they may affect the environment, health, and safety of roofing installers and building occupants.
- Recognize the key functional requirements of modern roofing systems, and how each of these requirements are related to underlying processes, both physical and social, that influence their criticality. Identify how each of these key functional requirements may affect individual roof system selection decisions.
- Evaluate the suitability of each major roofing system type against the key functional requirements for a variety of situations and select the best roofing system offering optimal levels of performance, health, safety, resilience and sustainability.
SUBJECT MATTER EXPERT: James Hoff
Jim Hoff is an experienced executive and consultant in the building materials industry. Jim currently serves as President of TEGNOS Research, Inc. a consulting organization dedicated to expanding understanding of the building envelope. Since the founding of TEGNOS, Dr. Hoff has provided a wide variety of strategic and technical consulting services to dozens of governmental, non-profit and corporate organizations, and recent clients have included the U.S. Department of Energy, the U. S. EPA, building material trade associations, building materials manufacturers, building envelope designers and private equity firms.
In addition to his industry research and consulting activity, Dr. Hoff also serves as the instructor for the successful "Commercial Roofing Boot Camp" course co-sponsored by Building Envelope Magazine. Jim has published numerous papers addressing a variety of technical and business topics germane to the building envelope industry and is a frequent speaker at building envelope, sustainability, and energy efficiency conferences.