Case Studies Roofing

Following a decade of experience in the roofing industry as branch manager for Triple M Roofing Corporation in New York, Rob Kornahrens, now president and CEO, founded South Florida-based Advanced Roofing Inc. in 1983. The full-service commercial roofing company is one of the largest in the nation, specializing in roof replacements for occupied buildings and […]

Through harsh winter storms, tear offs and built ups, Central Roofing Company (CRC) has been a central part of safety and timely response in Minneapolis and St. Paul. Since 1929, the company has been scaling some of the tallest buildings and tackling the most challenging projects other roofing contractors shy away from. Founded in 1929, […]

Moji Taba established BEST Contracting Services Inc. (BEST) in 1982 as a small residential roofing business serving the south end of Los Angeles. For more than 30 years, the company has grown, diversifying into larger commercial work and expanding the focus to a range of external construction services. In the mid-90s, the business added waterproofing […]

EcoStar LLC began in the early 1970s; EcoStar grew from creating synthetic roofing from a base formula of recycled rubber and plastic for various roofing contractors to becoming a leader in the market with its synthetic slate and shake roofing tiles. “EcoStar earns its name after the compound integrated in the tiles Ecology and Starloy,” […]

Starkweather Roofing Inc. (SRI) has been in business in Arizona since 1997 when Jeff and Diane Starkweather founded a small, local commercial roofing company. The business has established a reputation in the industry for high-quality work, efficient projects and lasting value. The team demonstrates broad capabilities, including new roof construction, re-roofing, repair service and preventive […]

In 1982 the husband and wife team of Don and Jeanne Gardner established L.A. Roofing Materials Inc. (LARM). The company is a family tradition for the Gardners; Don grew up in the industry and worked in the roofing supply business for many years before co-owning and managing a company. Roughly a decade later, he decided […]

When Randall Wright, now president of Quality Wholesale Building Products Inc. (QBP), answered a job advertisement in the local paper in 1968 he never imagined it would land him a 45 yearlong career. “I was just looking for a job, so I responded to the ad,” he recounts. “The job was with Georgia Pacific, a […]

Pioneer Roofing (Pioneer) has been in business since 1966. What began as a small, rural roofing contractor in south-central Wisconsin has grown into a large-scale commercial and industrial operation. Today, the business employs 80 team members working from a single location in Johnson Creek, Wisc. The large team works all over the Midwest, installing innovative […]

Larry Petretti, founder and president of Petretti & Associates LLC (Petretti), is a firm believer in the notion that a company is only as good as its last job, which is why he tied his name to the newly established firm. “We’re in the construction business, but really we’re in the relationship business and are […]

Texas-based Lee Construction & Maintenance Corporation (LMC) is doing something many general contractors shy away from: self-performing up to 70 percent of service. “Our competitors are more or less construction managers; we manage, but we also self-perform, which makes us more readily available to our clients and makes them think of us first,” says Ed […]