Karen L. Edwards, RCS COO
3 Tips for Helping Your Teams Work from Home Successfully
By Karen L. Edwards, RCS Editor. As a seasoned work-from-home professional, I wanted to share some tips to help teams stay productive during this uncertain time. After joining a roofing tech startup back in 2010, I made the transition from going into an office every day to working in my home office ...
Missouri Roofing Contractor Warns Other Contractors of Scam
By Karen L. Edwards, RCS Editor. Pyramid Roofing in Branson, Missouri believes they almost were victims of a scam. Typically, the only time you see scams and roofing in the news, it’s a story about how some unscrupulous roofing contactor defrauded homeowners out of thousands of dollars without performing the work. In ...
Keeping Your Business Running During the Coronavirus Crisis
By Karen L. Edwards, RCS Editor. Roofs will continue to need repairs, maintenance and replacement during this pandemic. Crisis communications and planning is something we all know is a good idea to have for our businesses, but many have been caught off guard by this COVID-19 (coronavirus) outbreak and are scrambling. So, ...
Companies are Getting More Creative to Attract Future Workforce
By Karen L. Edwards, RCS Editor. St. Louis contractor UPCO partnered with artist Howard "Chingy" Bailey Jr. to write and produce a song and video called "Old Construction Road." Competition for young workers is heating up and the skilled labor gap continues to widen. Companies are finding themselves having to get more ...
Fixing Chimneys? Mor-Flexx® Should be in Your Toolbox
By Karen L. Edwards, RCS Editor. Sometimes when inspecting a roof for damage or to estimate a replacement, there may be instances where it’s obvious the chimney needs to be repaired. If you want to offer additional services to your customers, you might consider mortar, stucco or chimney repairs. They are easier ...
Study: Prefabrication to Transform Construction Industry
By Karen L. Edwards, RCS Editor. Dodge Data & Analytics released a SmartMarket report to examine the frequency of prefabricated products, the benefits as well as what drives their use and what gets in the way. The Dodge study examined both prefabrication and modular building as two separate topics finding that they ...
Long-time Contractor, First-time Attendee Wins GAF Truck Giveaway at IRE
By Karen L. Edwards, RCS Editor. GAF had a strong showing in this year’s exhibit hall and perhaps the best giveaway: a Ford F-150 loaded with Timberline® HDZ™ shingles. If you attended the International Roofing Expo® in Dallas this year, you couldn’t miss GAF’s presence at the front of the exhibit hall. ...
Looking for a New Role in Roofing?
By Karen L. Edwards, RCS Editor. Consider becoming a Safety Service Rep at Weatherproofing Technologies, Inc. (WTI). Maureen Greeves, Strategic Project Manager at Tremco/WTI recently sat down with Joshua Bonardi and Oscar Coronado-Huerta to learn more about their roles as Safety Service Reps (SSR) with WTI. Joshua shared with Maureen that before ...
Roofers Rescue Man Who Fell Through the Ice
By Karen L. Edwards, RCS Editor. Roofing contractors save 96-year old World War II veteran from icy waters. News channel KFYRTV reported that two roofing contractors in North Dakota came to the rescue of the WWII veteran who had broken through the ice on the Missouri River. Robert Brendel and David Teal ...
Construction Isn’t Just for Men
By Karen L. Edwards, RCS Editor. Don’t overlook women when hiring for roofing and construction jobs. “Women make up less than 10 percent of the construction industry, according to the National Association of Women in Construction,” writes Lisa Ann Marchesi in an article published in Construction Today magazine. She points out that ...
