{"id":118730,"date":"2015-03-17T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-17T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thegbi.org\/about-gbi\/press-room\/article\/green-building-initiative-announces-new-member"},"modified":"2015-03-17T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-17T07:00:00","slug":"green-building-initiative-announces-new-member","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/green-building-initiative-announces-new-member\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Building Initiative Announces New Member"},"content":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Green Building Initiative (GBI) announced its&nbsp;newest corporate member, Duro-Last&reg; Roofing, Inc. the largest U.S. manufacturer of&nbsp;prefabricated roofing systems.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Duro-Last is a significant US manufacturer of high-quality roofing products and a true&nbsp;American entrepreneurial success story. GBI is on the move, and we&#8217;re pleased to&nbsp;have Duro-Last as a corporate member to contribute to our rapid growth&rdquo; said GBI&nbsp;Director of Marketing Shaina Weinstein.<\/p>\n<p>One of Duro-Last&rsquo;s most energy efficient qualities is reflectivity &ndash; by reflecting up to&nbsp;86% of the sun&rsquo;s energy, Duro-Last&rsquo;s white membranes can greatly reduce energy&nbsp;consumption and costs. Duro-Last recently published a white paper analyzing the&nbsp;impact of cool roofs on peak energy demand charges that showed the peak demand&nbsp;and net energy savings offered by cool roofs are available for both new and existing&nbsp;conditioned buildings in all climates within North America.<\/p>\n<p>Duro-Last&rsquo;s commitment to sustainability extends through their products&rsquo; entire life&nbsp;cycle. Last month the company published an environmental product declaration (EPD)&nbsp;for its 40, 50 and 60 mil single-ply PVC roofing membranes &ndash; the first product specific&nbsp;PVC EPD in the North American roofing industry. Certified by global public health&nbsp;organization NSF International, the Duro-Last EPD reports environmental impact data&nbsp;which assists building contractors, architects and designers in making more informed&nbsp;purchasing decisions.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Duro-Last is honored to be a part of GBI,&rdquo; said Jason Tunney, Executive Vice&nbsp;President and Legal Counsel of Duro-Last. &ldquo;With their science-based, life cycle&nbsp;approach to building design, the GBI closely aligns with our mission and goals.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>###<\/p>\n<p>About Duro-Last&reg;, Inc. &#8211; Known as the &ldquo;World&rsquo;s Best Roof&reg;&rdquo;, Duro-Last&reg;, Inc. is the world&#8217;s&nbsp;largest manufacturer of custom prefabricated, thermoplastic single-ply roofing systems.&nbsp;Factory controlled custom prefabrication eliminates up to 85% of field seams, resulting in&nbsp;lower on-site labor costs and easier installation. This highly sustainable and extremely&nbsp;durable roofing system is leak-proof, virtually maintenance-free and resistant to chemicals,&nbsp;fire, punctures, and high winds. Over two billion square feet of Duro-Last membrane has been&nbsp;installed throughout North America. Duro-Last is headquartered in Saginaw, Michigan with&nbsp;additional manufacturing facilities in Carrollton, Texas; Grants Pass, Oregon; Jackson,&nbsp;Mississippi; and Sigourney, Iowa. For more information on Duro-Last, call 800-248-0280<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":174,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[13619],"class_list":["post-118730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-green-building-posts","tag-popular-stories-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/174"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}