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Course Outline
Day One
Welcome and Student Introductions
Understanding Metal Roofing: Part 1
- History
- Materials
- Metallic coatings and metallurgy
- Profiling and roll forming
- Profile types
- Hydrokinetic or hydrostatic?
- Principles of joining and sealing
- Sealant performance
- Why do metal roofs leak?
Understanding Metal Roofing: Part 2
- Basic terms and definitions
- Principles of thermal response
- Panel attachment and fixity
- Curving options
- Slope considerations
- Common sense roof design
- Wind and its effects, and testing
- Paint types and coatings
- Warranties
Low Slope Hydrostatic Details
- Fastener and sealant critical areas
- Eave
- End lap
- Ridge
- Expansion joint
- Perimeter flashings
- Panel clips
- Flashings
- Troubleshooting
Day 2
Steep Slope Hydrokinetic Details
- Substrate suitability
- Panel symmetry
- Underlayments
- Eave details
- Ridge details, hip and headwalls
- Panel fixity
- Valleys
- Rakes and other details
- Soft metals
- Oil canning, and what to do about it
Integration with Solar PV
- Variables that affect design and financial performance of PV
- The "sustainability" piece of metal roofing
- Service life of roofing material options and solar PV
- The attributes of metal roofing as a PV platform
- Financial things: Payback period, ROI, IR
- Economic drivers
- Cost comparisons and real-world case studies
Snow Retention Devices
- Is it a life / safety issue?
- Why do rooftop avalanches happen?
- What is the science behind it?
- Are there liability issues?
- How to engineer to job specifics
- Prevention of ice dams
- Real-world case studies
Rob's Rules of Metal Roofing
- Dual fixity
- Penetrations
- Roof details
- Drainage
- Sealants
- Repairs
- Metallurgy
Re-roofing with Metal
- Why metal?
- Convert flat roof to sloped metal roof
- Conditions that fit metal
- Building a frame up retrofit roof
- New steep slope vs. low slope roof
- Mechanical units
- Drainage
- Existing steep slope retrofit
- Metal over concrete deck
- Metal over single-ply
- Attachment
- Existing metal roof
- What do the codes say?
- Methods to retrofit existing metal roof
- Structural enhancement while retrofitting
- Single-ply over metal roof