If you are the green type that happens to have a home that uses a terracotta roof, a new green product is available for you. Traditional terracotta tiles are made from red clay like a pot you might ...

Credits: 1 AIA LU/HSW; 1 AIBD P-CE; 0.1 ICC CEU; 0.1 IACET CEU; 1 IIBEC CEH; 1 GBCI CE Hour This one-hour course takes you behind the scenes of terra cotta manufacturing, exploring how clay roof tiles ...

There are plenty of technical hurdles keeping the masses from decking out their roofs with solar panels, but their general ugliness doesn’t help much either. Tegolasolare puts their photovoltaic ...

Malaysia's Drtan Lm Architect was recently commissioned to undertake an extensive renovation of an old dilapidated house. The firm quickly found that the home contained a large number of intact ...

This program explores the benefits of using terra cotta roof tiles, including its green properties and differentiating qualities from other roofing materials. It also explores the types of terra cotta ...

Terracotta is gorgeous, earthy, and green. A richly colored ceramic, it is used for many diverse purposes in house and home, including plumbing pipes; bricks and pavers; floor, roofing, and counter ...

DULUTH — The Carnegie Library building at 101 W. Second St., remains a valuable and stately local landmark. But, quite frankly, it has seen better days. Many of the structure's terra cotta roof tiles ...

Although made of fire-resistant materials, terracotta and cement roof tiles are vulnerable to penetration by windblown embers generated in wildfires, according to new research findings* from the ...