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International Institute of Building Enclosure Consultants (IIBEC) and ASCE’s Architectural Engineering Institute (AEI) Partner for the First Time to Co-Host Building Enclosure Symposium in Milwaukee, WI, November 14–15, 2022. More than 300 building enclosure professionals are expected to attend the 2022 Building Enclosure Symposium (BES), November 14–15, 2022, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The meeting marks a first‐time partnership between the International Institute of Building Enclosure Consultants (IIBEC) and the Architectural Engineering Institute (AEI) of the American Society [...]

In April 2022, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued a National Emphasis Program to protect U.S. workers from heat illness and injuries. Join us as we discuss the program’s key details and how it can potentially affect employers The webinar also will address regulatory and standard development progress, including the ANSI /ASSP A10.50 proposed standard on heat. More information here, pre-registration is required.

Back in the spring of 2020, the NWiR Executive Committee and I saw that NWiR needed additional operations, administrative, and programmatic support to be able to continue to grow. Elizabeth Miller and I were the primary staff members, and the association was also supported by a cast of freelancers like Sarah Harwerth-DeMarco. We knew we needed more. So after a nationwide search, we hired a company that specializes in supporting associations like NWiR: CIVICA Management. Civica [...]

One of our own NWiR members has stepped forward to replicate the Let’s Build Construction Camp for Girls powered by the CSI Foundation, with a new location in Northeast Ohio. Shelly Higgins of NWiR and S-5 Metals is spearheading the project which involves many moving parts and pieces and NWiR is a proud sponsor of the camp. The camp will be held in Northeast Ohio using Mahoning County Career & Technical Center (MCCTC) as a base [...]

Some really cool summer camps are popping up across the country for girls. Usually geared towards young women between the ages of 8-18 or so, these camps focus on various areas of construction skills and many of them include a roofing component. Oregon has the Girls Build summer camp series where girls attend for a week at a time and have four 80-minute workshops per day. Offered several times during the summer at various locations, they [...]

People who work for associations, like NWiR, NRCA, or IIBEC are in the profession of association management. We have professional associations for ourselves too: people like Alison LaValley, Brian Pallasch and myself belong to an association for association executives where we have colleagues who work for associations, we have community bulletin boards where we discuss hundreds of association issues, and we also have professional development and certifiations. One of the hot topics over the past few [...]

We are so fortunate at NWiR to have the support of several media outlets and educational resources on the interwebs that are focused on roofing and the broader construction industry. I recently had the chance to learn about a new resource that is of interest to NWiR members: Moxy. Moxy was founded by two women from the asphalt industry (which coincidentally has a lot of similarities to the roofing industry) and is a website full of [...]

NWiR is so fortunate to be supported by other not-for-profit associations, non-governmental organizations, and business coalitions. We seek these colleagues both in and outside the roofing industry, in adjacent industries, those that represent women in male-dominated fields and those that we have issues in common with. I'm so excited to announce that we've recently added the organizations of Chicagoland Women in Roofing (CWIR) and the National Association of Women in Construction (NAWIC) to our list of [...]

The Q1 2022 Market Index Survey for Reroofing shows increasing customer inquiries and increasing project contracts. Respondents include both roofing contractors and roof consultants with the vast majority of respondents doing business on both steep-slope and low-slope roofs; about 15% of respondents do business on steep-slope only. Below are a few topline highlights of the recent survey: • Customer Inquiries: 46% of all respondents reported that customer inquiries increased for Q1 2022 as compared to the [...]

The International Institute of Building Enclosure Consultants (IIBEC) is an international association of professionals who specialize in roofing, waterproofing, and exterior wall specification and design. The mission of IIBEC is to advance the profession of building enclosure (roofing, waterproofing and exterior wall) consultants. IIBEC is seeking papers for consideration for its 40th anniversary at the 2023 IIBEC International Convention & Trade Show. Put your skills, knowledge, and talent to work for your profession! The 2023 IIBEC [...]