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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, ...
Roof Donated to Combat Veteran
By Lauren White, RCS Reporter. A collaboration between multiple companies and organizations provides veteran with a new roof that is safe and leak-free. After joining the United States Army just after graduating high school, Loretta Grant, “spent three years in the military, serving in combat in Mogadishu, Somalia, and specializing in ...
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 ...
RoofersCoffeeShop® is Committed to Enhanced Communication, Networking and Education While We Wait Out the Coronavirus
By Heidi J. Ellsworth & Vickie Sharples, RCS Partners Digital communications are critical to keep business flowing. As North America deals with the community spread of the Coronavirus, the roofing industry needs to continue working together to keep a high level of communication with each other and roofing customers. By sharing ...
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 ...
Roofing Road Trips Podcast: Isaac Itofe
By Lauren White, RCS Reporter. Originally “volun-told” to develop a safety program for his fathers’ business, Isaac has built a successful career focused on safety in the industry. Safety Operation Systems (SOS) is known as one of the nation’s top health and safety groups who help roofing contractors really put together customized ...
Roof of Former Steel Mill Outfitted Entirely With Solar Panels
By Lauren White, RCS Reporter. Mill 19 becomes the new home to tech and manufacturing companies, powered by solar. A 1,500-foot long, 110-foot wide, 10” bar steel, former mill site, occupying 12.5 acres in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is getting converted into a technology and manufacturing facility. With thousands of solar panels covering ...
Top January Stories: The IRE and Journey
By Karen L. Edwards, RCS Editor. Here’s what’s trending on RoofersCoffeeShop® this past month. Back in January, the International Roofing Expo (IRE) was on the forefront of everyone’s minds and it was obvious because our story on SRS Distribution bringing Journey to Gilley’s in Dallas was far and away the most popular. ...
