Industry News
Advanced Roofing, Inc. Marks Milestone, Hiring 500th Employee
By Advanced Roofing. Advanced Roofing Celebrates Hiring its 500th Employee this Summer Advanced Roofing is proud to announce that we recently hired our 500th employee this summer. This exciting milestone marks the largest number of team members in our company’s 36-year history. Using many innovative approaches to training and recruitment, we look ...
The Roofing Alliance Announces 2020 Student Competition Participants
Nine schools are vying for five final positions to compete at the 2020 International Roofing Expo® on February 5, 2020. The Roofing Alliance, the foundation of the National Roofing Contractors Association (NRCA), proudly announces its 2020 Construction Management Student Competition participating schools. Celebrating its sixth year, the competition had nine schools ...
OSHA Announces New Weighting System for Inspections
By NERCA. Effective October 1, 2019, OSHA unveiled a new weighting system to guide its allocation of resources for job site inspections and enforcement. The new system dubbed the OSHA Weighting System (OWS) replaces the former Enforcement Weighting Systems (EWS) enacted in 2015. Previously, OSHA used the time it would take for ...
NRCA is named Most Trusted Construction Trade Association
BUILD magazine has named NRCA the Most Trusted Construction Trade Association as part of its Construction & Engineering Awards 2019. BUILD magazine has named NRCA the Most Trusted Construction Trade Association as part of its Construction & Engineering Awards 2019. According to BUILD magazine, the Construction & Engineering Awards honor ...
ARMA Announces New Deadline for 2020 Excellence in Asphalt Roofing Awards
Award submission date moved to December 1. The Asphalt Roofing Manufacturers Association (ARMA) has announced that submissions are now being accepted for the 2020 Excellence in Asphalt Roofing Awards Program. ARMA invites all roofing contractors to submit their best steep and low-slope asphalt roofing projects from the past three years for ...
Western Roofing Expo 2020 - Request For Presentations
By Western States Roofing Contractors Association. With the ever-increasing popularity of the Western Roofing Expo and its educational seminars, we are making a call to all public speakers: apply to teach a seminar at the Western Roofing Expo 2020 in Las Vegas! We believe the quality of our membership provides a ...
NRCA Advises Property Owners to Contact Professional Roofing Contractors
By Lauren White, RCS Reporter. The association is promoting its tool to help property owners locate a reputable, professional contractor following storms. We’ve seen an onslaught of hurricanes and winter storms. Starting in July with Hurricane Barry, we’ve continued to see more tropical storms and hurricanes, most recently Hurricanes Dorian ...
EagleView Achieves Unanimous Intellectual Property Win as Jury Affirms Xactware, Verisk Willfully Infringed EagleView's Patents
The jury found that the patents asserted in the case were valid and that Xactware and Verisk infringed them and did so willfully, awarding $125 million to EagleView in damages. EagleView, a leading technology provider of aerial imagery and data analytics, today announced a critical legal decision establishing that ...
ARMA Releases 2019 Third Quarter Report on Asphalt Roofing Product Shipments
The Asphalt Roofing Manufacturers Association (ARMA) has released its Quarterly Product Shipment Report, covering asphalt roofing product shipments in the United States and Canada in the third quarter of 2019. The report includes year-to-date shipment information and a comparison with the prior year’s data. “ARMA’s shipment report provides interested parties with direct ...
METALCON and Pittsburgh. Must-Sees for Them Both!
By Marco Industries. Pittsburgh is known as “Steel City” … so it’s a natural setting for METALCON 2019, the industry’s largest international event for metal construction products, technologies and solutions. There will be plenty to see at the show, including proven metal roofing solutions in the Marco Weather-Tite™ System at booth ...
