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Roofing Design and Practice
For the first time, there is a comprehensive book written from the design perspective that takes the reader through all of the processes involved in designing a roof.
This book is filled with sample problems and easy-to-read, easy-to-understand graphics that explain roof design step by step. Roofing design is one of the most neglected fields in construction, yet roofing represents well over half the litigation in construction and is the number one source of building owner complaints. This book is a must for anyone involved in construction.
Roofing Design and Practice is written in textbook style by an experienced university professor and a practicing roof consultant/engineer who have combined their knowledge and talents to develop this remarkably easy-to-understand, yet comprehensive text on roofing.
Key Features:
Completely up-to-date reference that incorporates the new International Building Code requirements and current industry standards.
Comprehensive coverage of both steep and low sloped roofing systems.
Meticulously detailed and illustrated chapters on drainage design, wind design, insulation requirements, vapor control, and flashing design.
Authors
Stephen L. Patterson, CPRC, RRC, PE and
Dr. Madan Mehta, University of Texas School of Architecture
321 pages, heavily illustrated
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Roofing Failures
"Roofing Failures by Carl G. Cash is the perfect training tool." - Robert G. Kuhn, CCS
Looking for a great way to introduce roofing failure problems to the rising consultant? To expose him or her to other's failures and provide information that will boost his worth to the client, the firm's reputation, and its profitability?
The first half of Cash's book describes various components of roofing systems followed by questions to test the reader's knowledge of roofing components and the industry. The second half provides case studies describing premature roof failures. With each situation, the author presents the events leading up to the failure and the actions taken to investigate the concern. At the conclusion of each study, Cash outlines follow-up questions and then, in an appendix, gives his final analysis for each case.
This excellent addition to a firm's training library includes a helpful appendix of roofing trade product names, roofing industry websites, a bibliography, and graphs and drawings.
A summary by the publisher:
Roofs fail for a number of different reasons, and the consequent cost are high - not only for clients, but for contractors and other professionals. Carl Cash draws from a long career in the roofing industry, having analyzed 1500 cases of roof failure. He discusses the source of the problem, the steps needed to prevent recurrence, and the principal remediation alternatives.
The book starts by setting out the duties of a building pathologist in the context of the modern roofing industry, defining failure and explaining its underlying causes. The main chapters then deal with the core specific types of failure: fire, shrinkage, roofing system displacement, calendar shrinkage, foam insulation shrinkage and stretched membranes, plasticizer migration, bitumen incompatibility, built-up roofing felt porosity, blistering, torch application, polymer dispersion, asphalt-glass fiber shingle splitting, lack of appropriate venting, problems with cool roofing, and problems with organic-fiber portland cement shingles.
The book concludes with an outline of the principal rules for long service roofing.
Author
Carl G. Cash
- 249 pages Hardcover
- 45 graphs and drawings
- Roofing trade name appendix
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Slate Roof Bible, The (Vol.II)
Joe Jenkins, who has over 30 years' experience working with slate roofs, has published the second edition of his popular "Roof Slate Bible: Understanding, Installing, and Restoring the World's Finest Roof." Seven new chapters include international slate, international slating styles, roof inscriptions and designs, recycling slate roofs, chimneys, valleys, and a catch-all chapter including such topics as tile roofs, asbestos roofs, and soldered-seam roofs.
The book is so comprehensive in both historical and technical information that it is a definite must-have for any roof consultant's library. Now comprising 316 pages, it has 361 color photos, 229 line drawings, charts, graphs, maps, and other illustrations. The book details everything from how to hand-fabricate lead plumbing vent pipe flashings to how to re-flash different chimneys using the folded-corner method; from how to replace valleys on both slate and tile roofs, to how to replace step flashings, rebuild chimney tops, and repair and restore slate roofs.
The book also claims to contain "the most comprehensive and up-to-date industry resource listing available anywhere in the world." Jenkins has provided the roofing community with a definitive, single-source manual for slate roofing. Should a question arise pertaining to a slate roofing project, this book will no doubt provide the answer.
Authors:
Joe Jenkins
361 pages
229 line drawings, charts, graphs, maps, and other illustrations
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