About This Book
The NRCA Waterproofing Manual is an authoritative guide published by the National Roofing Contractors Association covering best practices for designing, selecting materials for, and installing above- and below-grade waterproofing assemblies.
Key Topics
- Design Principles: Addresses positive-side, negative-side, and blind-side waterproofing systems, plus hydrostatic and nonhydrostatic pressure management.
- Site & Project Planning: Covers material storage and handling, weather limitations, slope and drainage design, and warranty coordination.
- Building Integration: Provides field-ready details for flashings, waterstops, expansion joints, and transitions to adjacent assemblies.
- Quality Assurance: Includes guidelines for job-site inspections, electronic leak detection (ELD), and surface preparation.
Purpose and Usage
- Complementary Guide: Pairs with The NRCA Roofing Manual Set to address moisture protection where building codes offer limited direction.
- Specification Standard: Serves as a primary reference for contractors, architects, and building envelope consultants preparing project specifications.
- Licensing Reference: Widely used as an approved study text for state contractor licensing exams, including Florida roofing licenses.
Practice Tests Using This Book
This book is required or recommended for 4 licensing exams. We've written 18 practice questions directly from this material, each one citing the chapter and section it comes from.