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Metal Roof Design 101
By Roof Hugger. Since the adoption of the International Building Code (IBC) in 2002, the way wind and snow loads are estimated changed dramatically. When looking at wind loads roofs are no longer looked at by engineers as having uniform loading across the entire roof area. The roof is now divided into ...
Dale Nelson Receives Very Prestigious Award
RoofHugger president and co-founder is honored with the Metal Construction Hall of Fame award! Last month Roof Hugger said that big news was coming down the pike about their President and Co-founder Dale Nelson. Dale has recently been named a recipient of the very prestigious Metal Construction Hall of Fame Award. This ...
Roof Hugger Announces Winter Webinar Schedule
WINTER 2019 WEBINAR SCHEDULES Everyone knows that knowledge is power, and for the roofing contractor, design professional and facility manager/owner it can lead you to new horizons. Education can help roofing contractors and design professionals expand their businesses and participate in a very small market without a lot of competition. For ...
When is Coating a Metal Roof Not the Best Choice?
By Mark James and Dale Nelson, Roof Hugger, LLC Retrofit Systems. From time-to-time, roofing contractors will encounter an existing metal roof coating project only to be challenged as to whether the roof is suitable for a coating or not. Millions of square feet of existing metal roofs are coated each ...
Ivy Tech Community College Begins Metal Roof Replacement Program
In 2015, the Kokomo campus of Indiana’s community college system, Ivy Tech Community College, was faced with needed repair of aging metal roofs on buildings constructed in the late 1970s and 1980s. Mike Karickhoff, executive director of Facilities for Ivy Tech’s Kokomo Region, is no stranger to roof repair and ...
New Royster Contracting Metal-over-Metal Retrofit Roof Project
The retrofit project was for the U.S. Air Force on a 7,800 square foot building located at Hurlburt Field AFB, Florida. Over the past 15 years, Royster Contracting, LLC of Fort Walton Beach, Florida has completed several metal-over-metal retrofit projects using Roof Hugger, LLC sub-framing products of Lutz, Florida. Skip Royster, Owner, ...
Retrofit roof hardening project meets Hurricane Michael and wins
Roof Hugger metal over metal roofing helps provides Category V hurricane protection. Over the past 15 years, Royster Contracting, LLC of Fort Walton Beach, Florida has completed several metal-over-metal retrofit projects using Roof Hugger, LLC sub-framing products of Lutz, Florida. Skip Royster, Owner, started his general contracting firm in 1977 to ...
A Big Roof Hugger Project and One that Escaped Hurricane Michael’s Wrath
By Roof Hugger. We can say this, compared to our standard order quantity, anytime we get an order for over 50,000 lineal feet of our famous Huggers, it is a HUGE project. Earlier this month, our David Hall (on the left in the photo), out of our Florida Office received an order ...
Retrofit from Hail, A Quick Solution
Hail storms are not uncommon in Nebraska, and many times they can be very severe with hail ranging from a half-dollar to a softball in size. When these towering storms come rolling through, everything in their path is in extreme danger. That was the case recently when two buildings managed by ...
A Week at METALCON - Charlotte, NC
By Roof Hugger. Roof Hugger's Dale and Jan Nelson, DJ Highnote, and Mark James attended METALCON 2018 along with Robert Baker and Duane Sailors of the LSI Group, Inc. Attendance at METALCON was good, and the show floor was different from previous years with a center theater/stage where nonstop presentations and educational ...
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