Guest Blog
The Right Way to Grow Your Roofing Business
By Roberta Adams, KY-KO Roofing. Is your business getting the most out of every marketing dollar? If you’re not effectively marketing online, the answer is probably no. Every roofing contractor and company wants more leads, but too many of them are stuck using outdated strategies to get them. It’s time for a ...
Enhance Your Relationships with Effective Communication
By Melissa Lee, Marketing Communications Manager, Duro-Last. At a time like this, it’s more important than ever to communicate regularly and openly with your employees and customers. To establish effective communication, businesses must present themselves professionally and pay attention to the details. When representing your brand with well thought-out messaging, it not ...
Read This Comprehensive Guide and Learn Crucial Industry Terms
By Katie Bowles, New Tech Machinery. The metal roofing and rollforming industries are chock-full of terminology. Here’s a glossary for the terms you need to know. For those outside of, or just getting into, the metal roofing and rollforming trades, the terminology can be difficult to understand and quite daunting to take ...
Disinfecting on the Job
By Cole Stanton, Director of Education and AED Specification, ICP Group. Requirements for remediation and mitigation of COVID-19 have become a part of everyday practice on jobsites. Disinfecting policies are going to vary from jobsite to jobsite depending on a variety of factors, including the type of work being performed and the ...
Colorado COVID-19 Guidelines for Roofers
By Attorney Ryan Markham, Cotney Construction Law. Ensure your roofing company is in compliance with these standards, regulations and best practices. The COVID-19 pandemic has many Colorado roofers wondering what they must do to ensure they are complying with all State, County and Federal COVID regulations. The following will provide you with ...
Strategies for Women Pursuing Careers in Construction
By John Kenney, Cotney Consulting Group. We must continue to empower women as they advance in the workforce and attain leadership positions. Women held 50.04% of American jobs when we entered 2020. Women were on more payrolls than men for the first time in a decade and about 5.4% of working ...
Very Severe Hail: What You Should Know to Protect Your Building
By FiberTite. Join FiberTite in the conversation about extreme weather tests and extreme performance for commercial roofing. FiberTite proves its resiliency in leadership, recently becoming the only KEE manufacturer to earn FM-Global's VSH (very severe hail) rating in the commercial building envelope. VSH testing by FM-Approvals challenges companies with tests using extreme chemical ...
Hospital Construction Projects Require Infection Control Plans
By Western Colloid. Here’s what you need to know to keep your workers and hospital employees safe. A crucial part of daily hospital operations are infection control procedures, which also serve as one of the most important safety measures in both interior and exterior hospital construction projects. Construction-specific infection control procedures are ...
Understanding Your Business Worth
By Wayne Rivers, Family Business Institute, for International Roofing Expo. How to determine if your company will hold its value with you there. Construction and roofing firms that have successful businesses, happy customers and predictable revenue are the exception, not the rule. Many companies spend more time putting out fires ...
OSHA Begins Issuing COVID-19 Citations
By North East Roofing Contractors Association. OSHA has now started fining companies for employee outbreaks across the country, including New Jersey and the northeast. The recent COVID-19 citations rely on the Occupational Safety and Health Act’s general duty clause: Each employer shall furnish to each of his ...
