DETROIT —The Great Recession hit a lot of construction companies very hard. Workers were laid off and projects were left half-finished and out of money. Glenn Parvin, owner and president of Detroit-based Custom Architectural Sheetmetal Specialists Inc., knows all about it.
The expo’s previous director, Lindsay Roberts, is now running Greenbuild, the environmental construction show operated by the U.S. Green Building Council.
To incorporate more roofing-specific curriculum into undergraduate programs, the Roofing Alliance for Progress has partnered with the construction management schools of Auburn University, Auburn, Ala.; Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colo,; and University of Florida, Gainesville, Fla.
The National Environmental Balancing Bureau appointed its 2014 president, Robert Linder during the NEBB Board of Directors Meeting in Monterey Bay, Calif, Oct. 18-19.