Computer-Integrated Roof Manufacturing System in Action

When Roofing Contractor asked Bennett Hutchison III what he liked best about the new home he and his wife, Gayle, were constructing in Atlanta, he answered without hesitation, “The river … it’s just so peaceful.” The river is the Chattahoochee River that runs from northeastern Georgia through Metropolitan Atlanta and strikes much of the border between Alabama and Georgia on its way to the Gulf of Mexico, passing through the panhandle of Florida.

The Chattahoochee was anything but peaceful on Sept. 21, 2009. That was the day that the river crested at close to 30 feet, destroying the original Hutchison home constructed on its picturesque bank. A combination of decades of rapid growth in the counties north of Atlanta coupled with 24 hours of torrential rains and other factors conspired to yield what the U.S. Geological Survey described as a “500-year flood.”

Tip Top Roofers installs a structural standing-seam metal roof using state-of-the-art roll forming techniques. In this video, MetalForming’s Geoff Stone explains the Computer-Integrated Roof Manufacturing System (CIRM) that fabricates the panels for the roof. Read and see more