{"id":292977,"date":"2019-02-01T06:00:44","date_gmt":"2019-01-31T20:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=292977"},"modified":"2019-02-01T06:00:44","modified_gmt":"2019-01-31T20:00:44","slug":"alternative-typhoon-resistant-roofing-lasts-decades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/alternative-typhoon-resistant-roofing-lasts-decades\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Alternative typhoon-resistant roofing lasts decades\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_292978\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-292978\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Rotary-pix.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"size-full wp-image-292978\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-292978\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Northern Marianas Trades Institute security officer Rip Stephanson delivers his presentation on typhoon-resistant alternative materials for roofing durability to the Rotary Club of Saipan Tuesday. (Erwin Encinares)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A security officer from one of the island\u2019s local training and certification institutions recommends using different materials to construct the roofing of the houses on Saipan in order to achieve a typhoon-resistant roofing that reportedly lasts decades.<\/p>\n<p>Northern Marianas Trades Institute security officer Rip Stephanson told the Rotary Club of Saipan last Tuesday that he highly recommends the usage of at least 24-gauge steel as an alternative to the common tin on wood recipe that is more popular.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis way, you have something that lasts 30-50 years and [is able to] withstand any 200mph plus typhoon,\u201d he said. Although he claims that the alternative method of building roofs with a higher gauge steel as an alternative to tin may seem more expensive, Stephanson noted that the price remains the same as with tin on wood but with more durability.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026The price is the same for something that is good for 100mph and maybe [only] good for five years because wood deteriorates over time,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>During his presentation to the Rotary Club, he told the members that during his computations of a standard roofing and his alternative roofing, it cost about roughly $4 per square foot for the materials.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI constructed a sustainable roof that could probably last about 50 years by using 12-gauge C channel\u2026 22-gauge roofing, and it turns out the cost of the materials is the same\u2014$4 a square foot,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWood is expensive and is not long-lasting in this environment, so I guess it begs the question, what\u2026are the people in the community doing about this? Because what I see is people are putting things back together in exactly the same way,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview Stephanson believes educating the community in materials that are more durable and more resistant to typhoons are a necessity, especially in the CNMI, where it is typhoon-prone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s just a matter of education. You just have to educate the hardware[s] here to have the correct materials on hand. Most of the materials are here, you just have to know where to look around [for them] to put it together, and people are starting to get the message\u2014if you keep doing the same thing over and over expecting different results, it\u2019s not going to happen,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A security officer from one of the island\u2019s local training and certification institutions recommends using&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":292979,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-292977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}