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Beacon Roofing Supply Inc. (BECN) traded on unusually high volume on Mar. 16, as the stock gained 1.89% to close at $50.06. On the day, Beacon Roofing Supply Inc. saw 719,953 shares trade hands on 6,266 trades. Considering that the stock averages only a daily volume of 439,634 shares a day over the last month, this represents a pretty significant bump in volume over the norm.

Generally speaking, when a stock experiences a sudden spike in trading volume, it may be seen as a bullish signal for investors. An increase in volume means more market awareness for the company, potentially setting up a more meaningful move in stock price. The added volume also provides a level of support and stability for price advances.

The stock has traded between $49.32 and $38.06 over the last 52-weeks, its 50-day SMA is now $45.49, and its 200-day SMA $44.97. Beacon Roofing Supply Inc. has a P/B ratio of 2.23. It also has a P/E ratio of 27.4.

Beacon Roofing Supply Inc is engaged in the distribution of residential and non-residential roofing materials in the United States and Canada.

Headquartered in Herndon, VA, Beacon Roofing Supply Inc. has 5,042 employees and is currently under the leadership of CEO Paul M. Isabella.

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Mar 15, 2017 Collective Bargaining

Members of United Steelworkers (USW)Local 330 voted 54-41 March 9 to accept a last best and final offer from Malarkey Roofing Products. Voting to reject the contract offer would have meant authorizing a strike by the 115 workers at the companys North Columbia Boulevard roof tile factory in Portland.

The vote came after the company backed off several union-busting proposals. Malarkey, represented by employer consultant Jim Frazer, had proposed to halt employer collection of union dues, end the requirement that represented employees become union members, and eliminate just cause discipline.

Under the new agreement, Malarkey will stop making pension contributions and pay $6.5 million to withdraw from the union-sponsored multi-employer pension plan. The $1.7 billion pension plan, known as PIUMPF (PACE Industry Union-Management Pension Fund), has more than twice as many retirees as active members, and its projected to become insolvent in less than 20 years. USW inherited the pension when it absorbed the Paper, Allied-Industrial, Chemical and Energy Workers (PACE) union in a 2005 merger.

Malarkey has been contributing $1.38 an hour to the pension plus a rehabilitation surcharge.

In place of the defined benefit pension, Malarkey will enroll union members in the company-sponsored 401(k), matching employee contributions dollar for dollar for the first 2 percent of salary, and 50 cents on the dollar after that up to 10 percent.

The contract runs through April 2019. It provides annual wage increases of 1.5 percent, retroactive to the June 1, 2016, expiration of the previous union contract. Wages at the roof tile plant currently range from $16.50 to $25.96 an hour.

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LAKELAND Fla. - A Lakeland U.S. Army veteran who suffered a traumatic brain injury 15 years after his service, is getting a life changing gift from strangers.

Adam Allen, was left paralyzed on his right side in 2003 after he was attacked with a hammer while on a job site.

After the attack, Allen learned to talk, walk and move all over again, "they thought I was going to die," he said.

Visible scars on the top of his head are a reminder of the pain he endured since the attack.

"They cut both sides, I guess."

In 2010, Allen became a part of the adaptive sports program at the James A. Haley VA hospital where he became part of the Paralyzed Veterans of America race team.

He now competes on the cycling team with the VIP Warriors in Central Florida.

"It takes me about ten miles to get warmed up," he said.

After years of giving back by helping other veterans, Allen was selected to be the recipient of something that he's long needed, a new roof.

Allen walks inside his home where water stains take over the ceiling, the garage roof is rotting and the shingles have blown away.

The VA chose Allen as a perfect candidate for an outreach project with Black Daggers Military Hunt Club.

On Saturday, March 18, two roofing associations will volunteer their time and supplies to give Allen a new roof.

Tri-County Roofing Contractors Association and West Coast Roofing Contractors Association will give the $10,000 roof free of charge.

The donation will allow Allen to focus on the road that's ahead of him.

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Beacon Roofing Supply, Inc. (NASDAQ:BECN) currently has a Gross Margin (Marx) ratio of 0.333409. Robert Novy-Marx has provided investors with insights on finding high-quality value stocks. Marx pointed to a high gross income ratio defining the quality of a company. Beacon Roofing Supply, Inc. has a Gross Margin score of 22. The Gross Margin score falls between 1 and 100 where a score of 1 would be good, and a score of 100 would be considered bad. This score is based on the Gross Margin stability and growth over the previous 8 years.

Focusing in further, Beacon Roofing Supply, Inc. (NASDAQ:BECN) has an EV (Enterprise Value) of 3981179. EV represents the total economic value of a specific company. EV is considered to gauge the theoretical takeover price if a company was to be acquired. EV takes into account more than just the outstanding equity. Debt and cash can have a big impact on a firms Enterprise Value. Although two companies may have the same market cap, they may have highly different EV values.We can now shift the focus to some current ROIC (Return on Invested Capital) data for Beacon Roofing Supply, Inc. (NASDAQ:BECN). ROIC is a commonly used financial metric that measures how efficient a company is with earning cash flow through invested capital. A typical ROIC calculation divides operating income, adjusted for its tax rate, by total debt plus shareholder equity minus cash. The aim of the ROIC calculation is to show how much new cash is generated from capital investments. After a recent check, Beacon Roofing Supply, Inc.s ROIC is 0.303075. The ROIC 5 year average is 0.332361 and the ROIC Quality ratio is at 6.173354.

Investors searching for value in the stock market may be checking on the Magic Formula Rank or MF Rank for Beacon Roofing Supply, Inc. (NASDAQ:BECN). Beacon Roofing Supply, Inc. currently has a MF Rank of 2867. The Magic Formula was devised and made popular by Joel Greenblatt in his book The Little Book That Beats the Market. Greenblatts formula helps seek out stocks that are priced attractively with a high earnings yield, or solid reported profits in comparison to the market value of the company. To spot opportunities in the market, investors may be looking at stocks that have the lowest combined MF Rank.

Beacon Roofing Supply, Inc. (NASDAQ:BECN) has a currentValue Composite score of 44. This score falls on a scale from 0 to 100 where a lower score would indicate an undervalued company and a higher score would indicate an overvalued company. This ranking was created by James OShaughnessy using six different valuation ratios including price to book value, price to sales, EBITDA to EV, price to cash flow, price to earnings, and shareholder yield.

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Visiting Brown (17-12) led from start to finish and won, 81-75, over UMBC (15-16) in the opening round of the Women's Basketball Invitational on Thursday night. Pandora Wilson (19 points) and Taylor McCarley (18 points) led the Retrievers' offense.

Men's college basketball: Salisbury senior forward Wyatt Smith (John Carroll) was named to the D3hoops.com All-Mid-Atlantic second team and to the National Association of Basketball Coaches Middle Atlantic District second team.

Men's college lacrosse: Towson sophomore faceoff specialist Alex Woodall headlines a group of first-round additions to the Tewaaraton Award watch list. The Annapolis resident and St. Mary's graduate ranks ninth in Division I with a .645 faceoff percentage and 16th in ground balls per game at 6.7. Woodall shared Colonial Athletic Association Player of the Week honors with Hofstra junior midfielder Dylan Alderman. The list includes a pair of Princeton players in senior midfielder Zach Currier and junior midfielder Austin Sims. There are also two freshman midfielders in Virginia's Dox Aitken and Penn State's Gerard Arceri. More players can be added to the watch list April 6. The pool of candidates will then be narrowed to 25 on April 27 and five finalists on May 11 before the Tewaaraton Award ceremony on June 1 in Washington.

Women's college lacrosse: Maryland sophomore goalie Megan Taylor (Glenelg), Elon junior attacker Stephanie Asher (Glenelg) and Florida sophomore goalie Haley Hicklen (Towson) were added to the women's Tewaaraton watch list along with Virginia Tech junior attacker Tristan McGinley, Elon senior goalie Rachel Ramirez, Harvard senior attacker Marisa Romeo and Florida senior attacker Mollie Stevens. ... Host UMBC (5-3) used a 13-0 run to take control and won, 17-5, over Longwood (4-4). The Retrievers were led by three players with three goals each: Sam Nolan (Fallston), Jennie Milligan (South River) and Carolyn Jamison (Westminster). Sam Moeller (St. Paul's) scored twice for UMBC. ... No. 19 Duke (5-3) used a 4-0 run to break a 7-7 tie and won, 16-10, over host Saint Joseph's (2-4). Maddie Crutchfield, Kyra Harney, Catherine Cordrey and Haley Shaffer each scored three goals for the Blue Devils.

College baseball: Catholic sophomore Jon Mierzwa (Reservoir) was named Landmark Conference Pitcher of the Week. ... Johns Hopkins jumped 19 spots to 21st in the American Baseball Coaches Association Division III poll. ... Frederick Community College (17-4) rose eight places to No. 7 in the National Junior College Athletic Association Division II poll.

Baseball: The Commissioner's Office named former Orioles second baseman Roberto Alomar a special consultant who will focus on youth baseball development and other league goals in Puerto Rico.

NFL: Free-agent guard Jermon Bushrod (Towson University) has re-signed with the Miami Dolphins after starting all 16 games for them last season. Bushrod was part of a unit that helped Miami reach the playoffs for the first time since 2008. He blocked for running back Jay Ajayi, who rushed for 1,272 yards, third most in a single season in Dolphins history. Bushrod has 112 career starts. The 10-year NFL veteran also played for the New Orleans Saints and Chicago Bears and joined Miami last season. ... The Washington Redskins signed linebacker Chris Carter.

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DIY work on older houses takes extra know-how, flexibility ... Gillette News Record Dwain Livengood can save money on his home renovation project by doing the work himself. But he also knows that do-it-yourself projects in historic homes like ... and more »

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Reliable Heating & Air, a leading provider of heating and air conditioning, plumbing, electrical and home performance (residential and commercial) service, is proud to offer its customers the ENERGY STAR Verified HVAC Installation (ESVI) program, in partnership with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Southface Energy Institute. Reliables first ESVI certificate was awarded to an Acworth homeowner earlier this year and included upgrading from a traditional maintenance plan to ReliableGuard, a 24/7 HVAC monitoring service.

According to the EPA, the average American household spends more than $2,200 a year on energy bills, with nearly half going to heating and cooling costs. EPA has long-encouraged consumers to look for energy-efficient heating and cooling systems with the ENERGY STAR label to help reduce these costs, while improving home comfort and helping to protect the environment. While purchasing energy-efficient equipment is an important first step, studies indicate that nearly half of residential HVAC equipment is not properly installed, resulting in higher utility costs for consumers, reduced comfort, and potentially reduced system life. Through its newly re-launched ESVI program, EPA is helping consumers ensure that their new HVAC systems are designed and sized properly, airflow is optimized, the proper amount of refrigerant is installed, duct systems are evaluated and improved, and the entire installation is quality verified by an independent third party.

Being a part of the ESVI program is very close to the heart of Reliable Heating & Airs owner, Dan Jape. An HVAC industry veteran since 1978, it is important to Mr. Jape to ensure the quality and excellence of Reliables installations and his passion has always been to provide the best in class service and product to Georgia homeowners.

When we first started developing ReliableGuard comfort monitoring three years ago with Emerson Climate Technologies, we had no idea that it would change the entire industry, said Mr. Jape. I knew that I was signing my customers up for maintenance plans for decades and only seeing their equipment twice a year. The fact is two annual visits are not necessarily required nor is it mandatory to keep a warranty in place. ReliableGuard offers a vast improvement in the way we can provide quality service to our customers. For the first time in history we can verify the efficiency of a customers HVAC unit remotely. We can respond to potential issues before they manifest into a no-heating or cooling scenario. As an innovator, we take pride in setting the path for the future in HVAC monitoring.

For more information about Reliable Heating & Air visit online at http://www.ReliableAir.com or for more information about the ENERGY STAR ESVI program visit online http://www.EnergyStar.gov/esvi

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A subcommittee has tasked an engineering firm to evaluate the effectiveness of different cooling systems for the proposed high school/middle school project.

On March 13 Dominick Puniello of Garcia Galuska DeSousa Consulting Engineers, Inc. presented the Systems Subcommittee with a number of HVAC system options for a combination high school and middle school.

Lori Cowles, the project director for HMFH Architects, Inc., said the time has come to think about the mechanical systems in the proposed high school/middle school complex.

Puniello delved into the pros and cons for each cooling system to allow subcommittee members to decide which ones should be studied as part of a life cycle cost analysis.

Displacement ventilation is a cooling system that Garcia Galuska DeSousa is a proponent of, Puniello said. These systems use naturally occurring buoyant flow within a space to create the vertical rise of air, he explained.

Puniello said advantages of displacement ventilation include excellent pollution removal, low noise, low air velocity, low moisture levels, reduced initial cost and high ventilation effectiveness.

Disadvantages associated with displacement ventilation are the system requires perimeter radiation heating and perimeter radiation cooling to maintain full air conditioned set points during peak cooling, Puniello said.

Highland Avenue resident Ed LaSala expressed concern about exhaust from nearby Route 1 and whether a displacement system would filter out all of the carbon dioxide coming from vehicles.

Puniello also discussed induction systems that use chilled beam units to provide cooling. This type of system can be used in conjunction with displacement to bring room temperatures down a few degrees, he said.

With induction, room air is induced through heating and cooling coils.

Some of the pros for induction are that the process is energy efficient, the noise is low, flexibility of installation, a moderate initial cost, simplified controls and lower maintenance, Puniello said. Cons include the fact induction requires increased coordination with a ceiling system (such as additional piping), it needs additional ventilation air in some cases and increased energy consumption compared to a dehumidified system.

During his presentation Puniello brought up the possibility of a geothermal HVAC system, which involves drilling small holes into the ground and utilizing plastic tubes in the ground to heat and cool the building.

While geothermal plants are viewed as environmentally friendly options that are durable, subcommittee members questioned the expense of implementing such a system and whether it would be cost prohibitive.

Another cooling system the subcommittee focused on was variable flow refrigerant, or VRFs, which use refrigerant to heat and cool structures.

Puniello said pros for VRFs include the same unit can be used for heating and cooling, low piping installation costs and a reduced boiler plant size. Disadvantages can include higher noise levels, quarterly filter changes and maintenance of equipment in an occupied area, he noted.

The subcommittee directed Puniello to investigate four different cooling options as part of a life cycle cost analysis. They include partial air conditioning/displacement; full air conditioning through displacement ventilation; displacement for ventilation and adding chilled beams for full air conditioning; and doing everything by active chilled beams.

These options will be compared to a baseline system to estimate how much can be saved over a 40-year period, Puniello said.

When it comes to cooling systems people often want full air conditioning because they believe thats the way the school will be most comfortable, Cowles said. However, she pointed out full air conditioning has a cost implication to it.

Maybe we look at displacement and forms of air conditioning that can be spun off of that, Cowles said.

Saugus High School Principal Mike Hashem said the building auditorium will probably need to be air conditioned. He added that it would be nice to have a way to cool the gymnasium that can become stifling when crowded.

For a girls basketball game it was close to 100 degrees during the game, Hashem said.

Hashem said he would like to see a cooling system in place that allows classrooms to be comfortable if the temperature is 95 degrees and humid.

As long as its a comfortable learning environment throughout the year, thats what is important, Hashem said.

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(TNS) -- Fort Bragg doesn't have the large clean energy projects of some other military installations.

You won't find sprawling fields of solar panels, like at Fort Stewart, Georgia; or a large biomass plant that supports the installation's entire energy needs, like at Fort Drum, New York.

But what the nation's largest military installation lacks in scale, it makes up for in diversity.

In addition to power provided by outside utilities, Fort Bragg is creating energy with geothermal wells, solar panels and, in the future, a hydroelectric turbine on the Little River.

Fort Bragg, long a leader in a variety of Army programs, has become a test bed of sorts for renewable energy sources and energy-efficient improvements, according to Audrey Oxendine, chief of energy and utilities on Fort Bragg.

Oxendine's office keeps close watch of the installation's energy usage, tracking consumption across Fort Bragg's more than 55 million square feet of building space. They also manage privatized utilities on post and oversee efforts to encourage recycling and conservation among the installation's estimated 54,000 troops.

The biggest driving factors for Fort Bragg's clean energy push, Oxendine said, is a desire to cut down on energy costs while also providing more security to the installation's utility infrastructure.

Fort Bragg spends about $45 million a year on electricity alone, she said. And the unique units who call the post home -- including special operations forces and much of the nation's quick-reaction force -- can't afford to be out of power.

At the same time, the installation's size -- a full one-tenth of the Army is housed at Fort Bragg -- and the space those troops require prevent the post from having more large-scale projects.

"That's the most daunting thing, I think," Oxendine said. "The size."

The size comes with big demands, she said. For example, while Fort Drum's peak power demand is 32 megawatts, the peak demand at Fort Bragg is 132 megawatts.

But despite its size, the installation's relatively low energy rates when compared to other installations preclude some large scale programs.

"It's a double-edged sword," Oxendine said.

If a project doesn't pay for itself or pay back significant cost savings over time, she said the installation doesn't pursue it.

That's why there's not more solar power on post.

"It almost makes it impossible, if not at an enormous scale," Oxendine said. And there's no space on post for a sprawling solar farm.

Despite those challenges, Oxendine said Fort Bragg has found other ways to utilize renewable energies and has made significant progress at improving energy efficiency in the last decade.

One of the installation's largest projects involved the $13.3 million geothermal heating and cooling systems that were installed in several buildings in Fort Bragg's historic district in 2015.

Other efforts have been driven by a Department of Defense program meant to marry new technologies with military energy needs.

The Environmental Security Technology Certification Program, or ESTCP, is a program started in 1995 that encourages outside companies to partner with the Army to find solutions to energy problems.

Officials with the program have called Fort Bragg a critical partner for the program and an "instrumental energy test bed."

In recent years, Fort Bragg-based ESTCP projects have included new insulation meant to prevent energy loss in buildings and systems to optimize energy efficiency on post.

Another project, with construction starting next month, will create a microgrid within the 82nd Airborne Division.

The grid will allow the installation to maintain power to a section of post near Ardennes and Campobello streets, even when the rest of Fort Bragg is suffering from an outage.

Another such project is at the Hercules Fitness Center on Pope Field, where officials have installed solar panels on the gym roof to power dozens of lights and several large fans.

Oxendine said there had been complaints that the gym, especially the weight room, was uncomfortably warm and humid during the summer.

The solar panels are providing energy to help solve that problem and eventually will be tied into a new heating and air conditioning system.

Across the entirety of post, Oxendine said Fort Bragg has several solar panels, affixed to gyms, dining facilities and even a parachute drying tower.

But the Hercules panels are unique in that officials are not converting the electricity from direct current to alternating current.

"It's more efficient," Oxendine said, explaining that converting the energy would result in a loss of 7-8 percent of power.

Army leaders are unaware of any similar experiment with direct current electricity on another installation. Eventually, Fort Bragg officials hope they can use the more efficient system to power the bulk of the Hercules Fitness Center and could eventually install similar systems on other Fort Bragg buildings.

"That one's a good example of what we're doing," Oxendine said. "Private companies come to us with these ideas."

Fort Bragg leaders have provided Army energy leaders with a tour of their Hercules project in recent weeks, but Oxendine said another project is creating just as much excitement, although it's still in the planning phase.

She said a $1.8 million project will install a hydroelectric turbine in the Little River, at the site of Fort Bragg's old wastewater treatment plant.

The turbine will create 275 kilowatts of energy to feed into the installation's electrical systems and will pay for itself within 14 years, Oxendine said. Overall, the project is expected to create a total savings of $2.7 million and could open the door to more hydroelectricity projects on post.

2017 The Fayetteville Observer (Fayetteville, N.C.) Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.

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