Lauren White, RCS Editor
We Stand With Ukraine, Will You?
By Lauren White, RCS Editor. Donate today and help those fleeing from Ukraine get the essentials they need. Since February 24, the war in Ukraine has been uprooting families and devastating the country. Over three million people have evacuated from their homes, leaving behind everything they know in Ukraine, ...
How Can You Attract Workers?
By Lauren White, RCS Editor. Learn different ways you can approach workforce recruitment and how to use branding to help attract workers. In order to help contractors recruit, engage, onboard and train entry-level and transitioning employees, the National Roofing Contractors Assocation (NRCA) is hosting a special webinar series in 2022 ...
What’s the Deal With Roof and Wall Acoustics?
By Lauren White, RCS Editor. Understand the role fibrous insulation plays in roofs and walls to mitigate noise. With the Read, Listen, Watch® (RLW) initiative, RoofersCoffeeShop® has made it easier than ever for members of the roofing and construction industries to learn how they want, when they want. Whether ...
Like Kids in a Candy Store
By Lauren White, RCS Editor. Tesla solar tile systems, model-based estimating and VR headsets had these industry professionals and thought leaders oohing and aahing. While in New Orleans for the 2022 International Roofing Expo (IRE), members of the Roofing Technology Think Tank (RT3) gathered to learn how members are utilizing ...
We Want YOUR Input
By Lauren White, RCS Editor. Take the 2022 RCS Trends Survey to help us understand what’s trending in roofing! For the fifth year, the RoofersCoffeeShop trends survey is open! The 2022 Trends Survey asks contractors to report on topics regarding labor and material challenges, business issues, training and technology needs, ...
Demand for Metal is Through the Roof!
By Lauren White, RCS Editor. As consumers’ desire for more resilient roofing options increase, so do metal roof sales. Metal roofing is having a moment. It’s growing popularity is not only due to consumer demand for resilient roofing, but also because of the variety of colors and styles available. ...
The RCS Journey to Platinum
By Lauren White, RCS Editor. For 20 years, RoofersCoffeeShop® has been and continues to be Where the Industry Meets! We’re going platinum in 2022! What started as Roofers Exchange, a newspaper focused on classified ads, is now RoofersCoffeeShop, a fully digital community known as the place Where the Industry ...
IRE Brings the Roofing Industry to Life
By Lauren White, RCS Editor. IRE 2021 did not disappoint and we can’t wait to experience it again in New Orleans in 2022! While I am not new to the trade show world, I am new to roofing trade shows. And the International Roofing Expo (IRE) 2021 in Las Vegas, ...
Naphis Remembered and Honored
By Lauren White, RCS Editor. An instrumental person in growing the safety program for MRCA, Naphis leaves some impossible shoes to fill. Passionate. Driven. Family man. Humble. These are all words used to describe Naphis Mitchell Reyes. For nearly 20 years, Naphis dedicated his career to construction safety. He ...
Report Reveals What’s Trending in Roofing
By Lauren White, RCS Editor. From labor shortages to utilizing digital-based marketing, the latest RCS Trends Report sheds light on contractor needs and the challenges they’re facing. In the latest RCS Trends Report, 285 contractors weighed in from 39 different states. Respondents ranged from small to large companies with 86% ...
