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
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NRCA releases EPDM training package
NRCA has made available a new Training for Roof Application Careers package—EPDM Roof Membrane Installation, which provides new and inexperienced workers with the knowledge necessary to work on an EPDM roof system installation crew. More information here.
Resilience And The Built Environment
Record setting heat, catastrophic wildfires, heavy downpours, longer droughts, and more frequent hurricanes: the headlines so far this year have provided relentless coverage of devastating weather throughout the United States. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), as… Read More
Education Sessions Overview at the IRE 2021
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
Findings from the Second 2021 Quarterly Market Index Survey for Reroofing Announced
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 signs on to support the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act
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
Focus on shading and urban tree canopy to mitigate urban heat islands
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
Mauna Kea Solar: PV Installation on Hawaii’s Tallest Mountain Provides Lessons in Rooftop Solar
CHANCES ARE, you will never have to install a solar voltaic system on the slope of a dormant volcano, at an altitude of almost 14,000 feet, taking care to place the system’s panels on an Mark Devenot, infrastructure specialist at… Read More
Buildings as a Solution to Urban Heat, hosted by the White House Council on Environmental Quality
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
Reconfiguring Mercy Hospital
Back in 2017, Allina Health Mercy Hospital had a problem. The Minnesota health care location had simply run out of space. The solution involved relocating and enlarging the main entrance, reconfiguring the hospital’s interior and adding a parking garage. To… Read More