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Making progress - a North American group shows how to design durable mechanically attached flexible membrane roof assemblies

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  1. National Research Council of Canada. NRC Institute for Research in Construction
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SubjectRoofs
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For several years, the Canadian National Research Council's Institute for Research in Construction has been managing the Special Interest Group for Dynamic Evaluation of Roofing Systems (SIGDERS) - a consortium of manufacturers, building owners, trade associations and researchers. SIGDERS has helped advance the knowledge for the testing and design of mechanically attached flexible membrane roof assemblies in North America. These types of assemblies, composed of flexible sheets (the waterproofing component) and mechanical attachments to resist wind uplift, are used on more than 30 percent of North American low-slope buildings, according to NRCA's 2004 Project Pinpoint. What follows is an explanation of the SIGDERS test protocol and application recommendations based on the testing.
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  • Professional Roofing 36, no. August 8 (1 August 2006): 38–42.
LanguageEnglish
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NRC numberNRCC 45705
NRC-IRC-18185
NPARC number20377747
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