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Located in the Chicago suburb of Bolingbrook, Oak View Elementary is home to about 550 students in Kindergarten through fifth grade. Oak View Elementary’s mission is to provide a positive, safe learning environment where students can become more independent and… Read More

ERA has joined with the NRCA and other stakeholders to sign on to a letter from the Building Resilience Advocacy Coalition (BRAC) which urges Congress prioritize hard infrastructure legislation. This is important because the vote will be separate from the… Read More

In mid-September, members of the roofing industry participated in a meeting with representatives of the General Services Administration to better understand various GSA policy concepts for addressing embodied carbon of construction projects and building products. In recent months, GSA’s Green… Read More

ERA is actively engaged in several coalitions working for various provisions in Congressional legislation that will benefit the buildings industry and support economic recovery. Among these are non-tax provisions recently approved by the House Energy & Commerce Committee and the… Read More

ERA staff attended the International Roofing Expo recently; while attendance seemed down in the expo hall, there were some great education sessions that provide good information for roofing contractors and others in the roofing industry. I’d like to highlight a… Read More

  In July 2021, more than 300 respondents from across the United States and Canada shared their perspectives on the current state of the reroofing industry in the second Quarterly Market Index Survey for Reroofing of the year. The survey… Read More

ERA has signed onto a roofing industry associations coalition letter addressed to the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives urging support and passage of the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.  The building-related infrastructure provisions in the bill are generally… Read More

Efforts to increase urban shading in Phoenix, Arizona was highlighted in a recent edition of the Resilient Nation Roundup, a publication of FEMA’s Resilient Nation Partnership Network. As described in the e-newsletter, the Phoenix city council voted to partner with… Read More

Jared Blum, Washington Counsel for ERA, has been invited to participate in an event on August 5th entitled Buildings as a Solution to Urban Heat, hosted by The White House Council on Environmental Quality. As described in the meeting invitation,… Read More

An initiative of the U.S. Department of Energy, the Better Buildings Initiative drives leadership in energy innovation by partnering with leaders in the public and private sectors. The BBI seeks to make the nation’s homes, commercial buildings, and industrial plants… Read More