Contractors State License Board Issues Red Alert for Green Scams.  The CSLB has issued a Consumer Alert to warn unsuspecting property owners of scams in the increasingly popular "green" contracting trades.  Several Sonoma County victims have apparently lost tens of thousands of dollars to a firm that illegally took large down payments, diverted the money and then abandoned the projects.  Learn what the License Board is doing to police the relatively new field of "green construction" and what you can do to protect yourself from being the victom of a scam by clicking here. The effective date of the 2008 California Energy Code has been postponed until January 1, 2010.  The new code extends "cool roof" requirements into the residential, as well as the commercial roofing arena.  The most recent edition of the California Energy Commission's newsletter, Blueprint, contains a summary of the impending changes to the Energy Code. To view it, click here.  ______________________________________ Associated Roofing Contractors of the Bay Area Counties, Inc. 1425 Treat Boulevard, Suite C Walnut Creek, CA  94597 Telephone: (925) 472-8880 Facsimile: (925) 472-0258

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