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GreenSky, LLCFinancingHail & Storm Damage · Wind damage
NAFEForensic paper
A 2025 forensic engineering paper on separating genuine wind damage on residential roofs from installation defects, mechanical damage and age-related deterioration, aimed at making wind assessments repeatable rather than impressionistic.
Source: Journal of the National Academy of Forensic Engineers — Azzi · Professional paper · 2025
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More from Hail & Storm Damage
A six-year field study of 729 residential hail-strike inspections by EES Group, correlating bruise counts against hailstone size, roof pitch and the elevation's orientation to the incoming storm. Useful when arguing why one slope shows damage and another does not.
RCIInterface (RCI, Inc.) — Petty and Kasberg, EES Group, Inc. · 2009
Reports the second RICOWI hailstorm investigation, in which seven teams inspected more than 100 roof systems after the May 24, 2011 Dallas/Fort Worth storm to document how different roofing products — including impact-resistant products — performed against substantiated hail sizes.
RCIInterface (RCI, Inc.), excerpted with permission from RICOWI — Herzog · 2012
A roof consultant's field guide to spotting deliberately fabricated hail damage — hammer strikes, dime-spinning, mandrel punctures — by what real ice cannot do to mineral granules, and by checking the peripheral surfaces a genuine storm always marks.
RCIInterface (RCI, Inc.) — Lyle D. Hogan, PE, RRC, FRCI · 2013
