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Connect With Roofing Professionals to Answer Your Metal Building Recover Questions
By Lauren White, RCS Reporter. A video series and online forum is dedicated to answering your questions and sharing tips for metal roof recover projects. Do you have questions you need answered about metal roof recover? Maybe you have a technique that makes recovering a tall clip easier? Or do ...
Develop Your Own Apprenticeship Program in Your Roofing Business
By Merry Duggan, RCS Reporter. The COVID-19 pandemic provides opportunity to capture potential talent. The on-going global COVID-19 pandemic continues to challenge individuals, communities and businesses. Roofing companies are no exception to the effects of this unprecedented hardship. In many places, construction projects have had to scale back ...
The Answer is Pizza
By Karen L. Edwards, RCS Editor. Meet Gibraltar’s Cleve Cobb and find out why he thinks pizza is the reason behind his sales success lately. Cleve Cobb has worked in outside sales for the Building Accessories Division for 20 years, but he wouldn’t call it work. He loves ...
Adjusting to Roofing During COVID-19
By Karen L. Edwards, RCS Editor. Jobsite operations, scheduling, communications and more are being affected by the virus. With businesses reopening, states are working to manage the pandemic and keep people safe and healthy. We are also seeing a spike in cases in certain states like Texas, Arizona, Florida and South Carolina ...
Jobsite Safety has Never Been More Important
By Colin Sheehan, RCS Reporter. The MRCA’s annual ELITE Safety Program Awards recognize companies that keep safety at the top of their list. Are you making safety a priority within your crew and in your company? Do you understand the importance of your employees feeling safe on the job? Are you constantly ...
Letting Customers Know ‘Our Teams Are Here For You’ – Gibraltar Building Accessories
By Karen L. Edwards, RCS Editor. Around the country, employees of the Building Accessories Division of Gibraltar are working to keep business flowing for contractors. The last few months have been trying times for contractors as they navigate all the changes required to remain operational during the coronavirus pandemic. It’s during times like these that ...
Experts Predict More COVID-19 Construction Delays
By Karen L. Edwards, RCS Editor. The authors of this new report by Moody’s Analytics site three reasons why this economic downturn is different from any other. Construction delays are not new. Many new construction projects experience delays for any number of reasons, including weather, change orders, material delays, worker shortage and ...
SRS Distribution Announces Coloring Contest Winner
By Karen L. Edwards, RCS Editor. The company held the SRS Fun with Family Coloring Contest to help families and kids have a fun activity to take part in during the pandemic. With millions of parents and children staying at home, working from home, schooling at home, it can get stressful. One ...
METALCON Live! Special Guest Ken Gieseke, VP Marketing, McElroy Metal
By Heidi J. Ellsworth. RoofersCoffeeShop partner McElroy Metal’s VP Marketing shares industry information on live forum May 13, 2020, at 1:00 p.m. eastern. METALCONLive! is an online weekly business-boosting broadcast that connects metal industry professionals with metal construction company owners, contractors, fabricators, suppliers and experts to share strategies that enable the industry ...
Keeping the Doors Open Part 3 - Essential or Nonessential, That is the Question
By Lauren White, RCS Reporter. Where do construction and roofing fall on the spectrum of essential and nonessential jobs nationwide and globally? Editor's note: Please refer to part one and part two of this series for the complete story. It started with schools closing, then bars and restaurants were only offering takeout or ...
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