NRCA's Technical Services Section is members' resource for technical-related roofing
industry issues.
The technical staff made 22 educational program presentations.
Various new technical manuals and products were released, including
The NRCA Roofing
Manual: Steep-slope Roof Systems—2009,
Guidelines for the Design of Energy-efficient
Roof Systems,
The NRCA Guide to Roof Coatings, Second Edition,
The NRCA Vegetative
Roofing Systems Manual, Second Edition, The NRCA Vegetative Roof Systems Manual,
Second Edition on CD and Waterproofing Set on CD, The NRCA Roofing Manual CD—2009
and NRCA Construction Details CD—2009.
In addition, NRCA updated the EnergyWise Roof Calculator Online to include information
from the 2004 and 2007 versions of ASHRAE Standard 90.1, "Energy Standard for Buildings
Except Low-Rise Residential Buildings." The updates are additions to the previous
version, which addressed only the 1999 version of the standard. The EnergyWise Roof
Calculator Web site was redesigned to reflect the appearance of NRCA's Web site;
the new URL is
energywise.nrca.net.