Whether protecting ancient artifacts or housing thousands of servers that store and transmit sensitive data to inform tomorrow’s decisions, a building’s mission is what makes it critical. As such, materials used in some of the world’s most iconic structures are now available to protect America’s mission critical buildings.
When it comes to protecting the mission of these buildings, the roof — especially the insulation inside the roof — is critical to the continuous operation of the processes inside. Across the various components of the building enclosure, the roof provides powerful protection for the people and systems within as it defends against varied external threats. The tyranny of time, the assault of nature’s elements, and the requirements of sustainability criteria all weigh on the assembly that “covers it all” — the commercial roof. The trusted performance of the roof takes on an even higher level of importance when it is viewed in context with two of the world’s most precious commodities: time and money. A widely published report by the Ponemon Institute estimates the cost of a data center outage at $9,000 per minute. Losses are not limited to data centers. A recent lightning strike on the Moody Music Building at the University of Alabama ignited the roof insulation, causing a fire that burned for over 12 hours and required more than 1 million gallons of water to extinguish. The building requires a complete renovation with no backup in the interim.