The agency's rebranding serves as a way to share best practices that restore communities and improve lives. Leaders in the world of nonprofit home repair announced the rebranding of ReFrame Association as the Coalition for Home Repair at its annual conference today. This marks a new chapter for this nonprofit that has ...
This Trends Report focuses on the labor shortage and top business and contractor needs and challenges. RoofersCoffeeShop®, the award-winning place where the industry meets for technology, information and everyday business, announces the release of its latest Roofing Industry Trends Report. This Trends Report, which gathered information throughout 2019 and 2020, ...
By Cass Jacoby, RCS Reporter. New type of solar roof is backed by Tesla, the electric car maker, and looks like any other normal roof. Jake Hermeling is one of the first in Central Oregon to have a Tesla solar roof built on a house, but you would ...
By Evelyn Witterholt, RCS Reporter. The Christian organization completed over $1 million worth of repairs for families in the Buffalo Masten District. New York is known for having its fair share of tumultuous weather, which can lead to roof and home damages. It’s hard enough for some families to afford ...
By Evelyn Witterholt, RCS Reporter. Korean War-era veteran Robert Snider is thanked for his service with brand new gutter guards. For Robert Snider, a Korean War-era veteran, cleaning the gutters on his roof had become more than just an inconvenient task. He was actually given medical orders not to do ...
Home building industry needs thousands more skilled workers to meet demand. A lack of skilled construction labor is a key limiting factor for improving housing inventory and affordability, according to a new report by the Home Builders Institute (HBI). Additionally, the report cautions that the required number of construction workers to ...
Heidi J. Ellsworth was an honoree in the Changemaker category. RoofersCoffeeShop®, the award-winning place where the industry meets for technology, information and everyday business, announced that Heidi J. Ellsworth was named in Folio: and AdMonsters’ 2021 class of Top Women in Media as a Changemaker. Each year, an elite ...
By Colin Sheehan, RCS Reporter. RoofersCoffeeShop® and TAMKO Building Products team up to honor military veterans who found a new home in roofing. The initiative to hear from veterans about their journeys into the roofing industry was created by TAMKO and RoofersCoffeeShop® in November 2020, and continues today with ...
By Cass Jacoby, RCS Reporter. 3D-printed barracks on Texas military base offer hope for this technology’s potential to provide faster builds with significant cost and labor savings. You can truly 3D print almost anything. Recently, ICON, an Austin-based construction technology company, claims they have created the largest 3D-printed structure ...
By Cass Jacoby, RCS Reporter. Scientists leverage radiative cooling to naturally reduce the amount of electricity and greenhouse gasses emitted through air conditioning. This year record temperatures hit the U.S. As the planet warms, and as climate change gets more severe, more people will be looking to beat ...