Philadelphia is receiving federal money to help promote energy efficiency through a $1.3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to expand education, develop a plan to grow the clean energy workforce and support the School District of Philadelphia’s efforts to conserve energy in its buildings. The city will also use the money to…
Greg Bolt, president of 10X Roofing, has been through it all, from joining his family’s roofing company to growing that company until it was acquired. It can be a tough and exhausting journey, which is what inspired Bolt to want to help others. “I want to help the guys like that were like me, that…
One construction worker is dead, and another was injured after falling through the roof of Mary McLeod Bethune Elementary-Middle School on Detroit’s west side last Wednesday morning. A spokesperson for the Detroit Fire Department said that the workers fell through the roof two stories into the basement; the cause of the incident remains under investigation.…
The pace of mergers and acquisitions in the roofing industry continued through the first quarter of 2024 and culminated with the major news that Home Depot purchased SRS Distribution. The $18.25 billion deal sent a seismic ripple effect of reaction industrywide. Craig Webb is president of Webb Analytics, a research and consulting firm that reports…
The vents intended to move air through an attic are, frankly, a tiny part of a roofing project and a fraction of the overall cost of a roofing project. Still, Aaron Santas, CEO of RoofCoach, says an attic ventilation-focused culture inside a roofing company helps create the mindset of doing the entire roofing project right…
Finding humor in a one-off similarity has a way of morphing into a through line, as it did for the two men who turned a once-small roofing company into a $60 million annual sales juggernaut. For Bryan Klepinger and Stacy Agnew, the president and the director of business development for C.E. REEVE Roofing, a Tecta…
A typical building loses up to 25% of its heat through the roof. To ensure an office building in Boston could buck that trend, building designers and contractors turned to Elevate roofing and insulation systems by Holcim for the construction of the world’s largest “Passive House”-certified office building: the Winthrop Center in Boston. buzz Designed…
The technology wave sweeping through the roofing trade is not slowing down. Advances in service and product ordering, aerial measurement, real-time communication, logistics and asset tracking are having an impact on the roofing contractor’s day-to-day business operations in the field. Roofers are also experiencing significant enhancements to customer relations, lead generation, and training capabilities through…
On Oct. 20, 2019, 10 twisters ripped through the storm line of North and Central Texas, making it one of the costliest tornado events in Texas history. Thankfully, there were zero fatalities reported, but there was extensive damage to property, resulting in over $2 billion of insurance claims. One particular building that took direct hits…
