The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) recently announced that it will delay the ballot on LEED 2012 until June 1, 2013. Given the date change, the organization also announced that LEED 2012 is being renamed LEED v4. 

I had an interesting chat recently with Jonathan Wolf, the president of Tecta America Zero Company, LLC, with offices in Cincinnati, Ohio, and Louisville, Ky.

Sales is the lifeblood of any business, but sales is perhaps the least understood part of the business equation. 

Our next ARW University webinar is titled “Low Slope Roof Wind Design Overview,” and it will be held May 15 at 2 p.m. Eastern. Mike Ennis, Technical Director of SPRI, will provide an overview of the information needed to properly design a roof to withstand wind loads.

On March 27, to very little fanfare, the International Code Council (ICC) announced the availability of the 2012 International Green Construction Code (IgCC). 

You hate to even think about fatalities in the workplace, but if you’re in the roofing industry you’ve got to be prepared to handle the situation should such a tragedy happen to someone at your company. 

Installing a roof on a new construction project has its share of challenges, but it never ceases to amaze me how many problems are caused by members of other trades. 

Our next ARW University Webinar is “The Energy Savings Value of High Performance Toplighting: Daylighting with Skylights,” and it will take place Feb. 21 at 2 p.m. Eastern time.

In our recent State of the Industry survey, 60 percent of contractors in the survey listed “finding qualified workers” as a pressing problem.