Metal Roof Design: Top 10 Problems and How to Solve Them

Presenter Information

Name: Brian Gardiner FRCI, RRC, CCS and Charlie Smith

Title: Brian Gardiner-Roof Consultant and Charlie Smith-National Recover Manager, McElroy Metal

Background:

Brian Gardiner has practiced roof consulting for over 30 years. He is a past director of both RCI, Inc. Region IV (1995-8) and the Building Envelope Institute, Inc. (2005-06). Brian has presented numerous metal roofing-related seminars for RCI, Inc. and other associations. He has specified and provided detail drawings on millions of square feet of metal roofing.

Charlie Smith is widely recognized as the industry’s foremost authority on recover systems utilizing metal roofing. Charlie holds several patents in the recover field including both metal-over-metal and metal-over-shingle solutions. As an industry leader, Charlie recently co-wrote the new RCI metal roofing course with Brian Gardiner, is a frequent presenter at RCI and other roofing industry events.

Charlie Smith founded Architectural Building Components in 1989, when he purchased the equipment of a small Houston, Texas-based metal roofing manufacturing business. Over the next 23 years, the company grew into an industry-leading metal roofing and wall system solution provider specializing in the use of metal to recover existing low-slope roofs. In 2012, Architectural Building Components became a part of McElroy Metal which enabled Charlie to focus on educational and product development efforts to help the roofing industry design creative solutions with metal.