I left off my last post on retrofits looking for trouble….literally. Hidden problems can cause quite a bit of trouble if left undiscovered. And hidden problems with retrofitting a flat roof to a ...

Packaged rooftop units (RTUs) are the workhorses of the commercial market, providing cooling to approximately 60% of U.S. commercial building floor area. While it is impossible to know exactly how ...

A scientist from Cambridge University has investigated the economic benefit of combining a basic energy-efficiency retrofit with the installation of rooftop PV and has found solar arrays help to ...

The light load-bearing capacity of a 19 th-century timber roof dictated an innovative HVAC retrofit for a historic downtown building renovation that's now home to the Detroit Institute of Music ...

The average life expectancy for a commercial roofing system is about 20 years – which means that every year 5% of the commercial, industrial, and institutional roofs in the United States need ...

Retrofit solution to convert rooftop PV systems into photovoltaic-thermal arrays Scientists in Korea have proposed a simple methodolgy to tranform existing PV systems into photovoltaic-thermal (PVT) ...

The Alpharetta Community Center roof is leaking. The city recently approved a $494,741 contract with Garland/DBS to retrofit the roof at 175 Roswell St. This contract will retrofit the flat synthetic ...

The Sportsplex roof is due to be resurfaced in 2022, but the city is looking into a more extensive retrofitting of it instead. As we navigate through unprecedented times, our journalists are working ...