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The Roofing Industry Alliance for Progress' Melvin Kruger Endowed Scholarship Program is seeking additional donors.

Implementing proper design considerations can limit the effects of oil canning.

The Department of Labor is aggressively pursuing businesses that misclassify workers as independent contractors.

The baby boomer generation is retiring, and a generation of millennials has entered the roofing industry workforce. As this new generation of roofing contractors steps into the shoes of previous leaders, they have needed to make changes and, at times, offer different views than their predecessors.

As the popularity of rooftops being used as platforms for photovoltaic systems began to grow, NRCA developed a set of guidelines to assist the construction industry. These best-practice guidelines have been revised based on information collected by NRCA from knowledgeable, practicing roofing contractors and are contained in the recently published NRCA Guidelines for Rooftop-mounted Photovoltaic Systems.

History experts and novices have the opportunity to engage with original sources of history while visiting the American Heritage Center at the University of Wyoming, Laramie. In 2013, leaks in the roof system threatened the irreplaceable documents and artifacts contained within the building. D&D Monarch Sheet Metal Inc., Denver, was selected to perform the tear-off and new roof system installation on the unique cone-shape building.