Advanced Design Against Adverse Conditions in a Commercial Roofing System
How to Identify Regional Idiosyncrasies
Sponsored by Georgia-Pacific Building Products | Presented by Hamed Kayello, PhD and Wyatt Greene
Live Webinar Airing on May 28, 2025 at 02:00 PM ET
Join Hamed Kayello and Wyatt Greene in "Advanced Design Against Adverse Conditions in a Commercial Roofing System” to learn how to enhance your rooftop defense. This session will build upon basic cover board education and teach you how to identify and articulate the most common risk factors (adverse conditions) for commercial roof damage. Further, you'll learn how to identify regional idiosyncrasies with these risk factors and understand the agencies, codes and corresponding test methods that address them. Lastly, you'll learn how fiber glass gypsum-faced panels can mitigate these risks and significantly impact the performance of roof assembly.
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Hamed Kayello, PhD is a Product Manager at Georgia-Pacific. He received a PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Akron and an MBA from Case Western Reserve University. During his graduate work, Dr. Kayello focused on chemical and polymer design for applications in the construction industry. In 2019, he joined the Research and Development team at Georgia-Pacific Gypsum and led multiple innovation projects related to the DensDeck®️ coverboard product line, one of which resulted in the commercialization of DensDeck®️ StromX Prime Roof Board. Dr. Kayello is actively involved in SPRI and his local IIBEC chapter. |
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Wyatt Greene has 15+ years in the construction industry in various roles and currently serves in the technical services department of Georgia-Pacific Building Products. He has been with Georgia-Pacific for six years and enjoys being a resource to the building community and speaking about Georgia-Pacific building products. |
Georgia-Pacific Building Products has a legacy of creating strong, durable, sustainable building materials from exterior sheathing products to drywall in walls and ceilings to industry leading roof products and supporting products from lumber to subfloors to fire doors. We help members of the building community build quality commercial and residential construction projects all over the world. GP Building Products is the largest producer of structural wood panels (plywood and OSB) in North America and is a leading producer of gypsum building products, lumber and composite panels.
We support commercial and residential architects, designers, building material dealers, contractors and builders with tools, education and supporting resources that help the building community advance their knowledge, hone their craft, and make the best product decisions for their projects.
Originally published in Building Enclosure
Originally published in April 2025
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- Describe regional design idiosyncrasies required in North America that mitigate risk from adverse conditions such as wind, moisture, sound, hail, impact and fire.
- Recognize the prescribed test methods and standards commonly used to evaluate commercial roofing resistance systems against these adverse conditions.
- Define and reference the correct manufacturing and product standard in specifications that will ensure optimum performance of the commercial roofing system.
- Explore FM Very Severe Hail requirements and current methodologies approved to mitigate those risks.
