Guest Blog
How to Maintain Customer Engagement
By Carol Katarsky, CertainTeed. Set your company up for success by maintaining positive connections with customers and prospects. Now more than ever it’s important to continue connecting with customers and prospects, even if business has slowed, or stopped, because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Maintaining positive engagement will not only help prevent project ...
Guidelines for Safely Returning to the Workplace
By Michael Matthews, Director of Safety, Duro-Last. Minimize risk and exposure and maximize safety awareness with these tips. As individual states and the federal government slowly start to ease shelter-in-place mandates and re-engage businesses, it’s more important than ever that we prepare our teams to return safely to the workplace. Below is a ...
Make Work a Sanctuary
By Gary Thill, International Roofing Expo (IRE). Helping an employee maintain physical and mental health could be the most important thing employers do this year. Roofing is already a physically and mentally demanding job by itself. The additions of current circumstances such as the ongoing pandemic and social and political ...
Seek and Maintain Social Connections
By Amie L. Grant, WTI. One of the hardest things during this time for many of us is the isolation from our friends and family. Being physically isolated doesn’t mean you have to be socially isolated. We’re lucky to live in a time when technology exists that ...
Tilcor Warehouse Up & Running
By Tilcor Roofing Systems. Our new Grand Prairie, Texas warehouse is now fully operational! In two short months our team consolidated three locations into our beautiful, state of the art warehouse in Grand Prairie, TX! We won’t lie, the start-up & transition was rough at first, but we improve every week. We’ve ...
DECRA Metal Roof in 5th Decade of Harsh Canadian Weather
By DECRA Metal Roofing. Unable to withstand extreme weather conditions, conventional roofing materials weren't a consideration for this project. When building owner and master roofer Charles Lortie converted his Ottawa apartment building to upscale condominiums back in 1978, he faced some unique roofing challenges. Enhancing classic architecture with DECRA The distinctive building ...
Recognizing and Addressing Heat Stress on Jobsites
By Cotney Construction Law. Summer in the U.S. means soaring temperatures accompanied by high humidity. Construction workers are already prone to heat-related illnesses and injuries due to exposure to hot weather, but this risk is further heightened by a combination of physical activity in the summer heat. To reduce risk of heat-related illness ...
Are You Prepared to Communicate Through a Crisis?
By Melissa Lee, Communications Manager, Duro-Last. The COVID-19 pandemic has refueled the discussion around “crisis communication” and what it means to prepare your company to respond to unplanned events. Whether the crisis is internal or external, there are key elements that all companies should take to ensure that they’re appropriately engaging employees, ...
Protecting Roofs from Hail Damage
By SureCoat Systems. Helpful information to share with your customers to keep their roofs safe when hail strikes. Hail can occur at any time, no matter what the season is. According to NOAA’s Severe Storms database, there were 5,382 major hail storms in just 2019. And in 2018, $810 million ...
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 ...
