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RoofersCoffeeShop® Podcasts Promote Diversity and Inclusion for the Roofing Industry
By Colin Sheehan, RCS Reporter. Diverse perspectives are necessary for the growth and sustainability of the roofing industry. Podcasts available on RoofersCoffeeShop (RCS) provide diverse voices on roofing industry topics that may be hard to find elsewhere. The importance of this cannot be emphasized enough, as it is the ...
Stand Down to Prevent Falls in Construction
By Karen L. Edwards, RCS Editor. Falls are by far the leading cause of death in the construction industry. The Bureau of Labor statistics reports that in 2018 there were 1008 construction deaths and 320 of those were from falls. To try to lower these number OSHA has created the ...
Korellis Roofing Repairs Boys and Girls Club Roof
By Colin Sheehan, RCS Reporter. Indiana-based roofing company donates labor and materials to local Boys and Girls Club. Korellis Roofing, located in Hammond, Indiana, donated time, labor and materials to repair the roof of the Boys and Girls Club of Greater Northwest Indiana. The Boys and Girls Club works ...
New World of Roofing with COVID-19
By Greta Bajrami, CEO and founder of Golden Group Roofing. Millennial roofer entrepreneurs were operating digitally long before the coronavirus pandemic. The roofing industry is essential. A roof is a need. A need that for many, cannot be ignored. However, many roofing contractors during the crisis of COVID-19 pandemic, received a wakeup ...
Tecta America Acquires Pro-Tec Roofing and Sheet Metal, in Watertown, SD
National leader in commercial roofing acquires commercial roofing company in South Dakota. Tecta America, the national leader in commercial roofing, announces the recent acquisition of Pro-Tec Roofing and Sheet Metal. Pro-Tec is an award-winning company with over 60 years of roofing experience. Servicing South Dakota, North Dakota, and western Minnesota, the company ...
What Are You Doing to Recruit Workers?
By Karen L. Edwards, RCS Editor. This Arizona roofing contractor wrote an article for his local newspaper. When I saw this article in the Queen Creek Independent written by Justin Loflin, owner of Efficient Roofing in Apache Junction, Arizona, I thought that this was a great idea and wanted to ...
Companies Partner to Provide Free Roof for Navy Veteran
By Colin Sheehan, RCS Reporter. Roof Deployment Project takes off in Lane County, Oregon. 65-year-old Rick Tijerina became the first applicant from Lane County for Owens Corning’s Roof Deployment Project after reading an article at his local barber shop in Junction City, Oregon. The article that caught his eye was from Habitat ...
Tecta America's Lindy Ryan Steps Down as Senior Vice President of Service
Lindy Ryan steps down as Senior Vice President of Service. Lindy Ryan has stepped down from her position as Senior Vice President of Service and Leadership Development with Tecta America. She will remain with Tecta as the Vice President of Leadership and Development. Lindy joined Tecta when her business, General Works, was ...
Apprenticeships Could be the Key to Better Workers and an Improved Bottom Line
By Colin Sheehan, RCS Reporter. New York State Department of Labor announces a recruitment drive set to take place in August. As workforces age, a stream of educated and skilled workers is necessary to maintain business productivity and improve the bottom line. By investing in talent development through apprenticeships, employers gain more ...
Roofing Company Gives Back to Local Florida Community
By Colin Sheehan, RCS Reporter. Best Roofing rolls up in a vintage VW full of food. All over the country people are struggling to feed themselves and their families. While this was true before the pandemic, COVID-19 definitely made things worse as people lost their jobs, were forced to quit or voluntarily ...
