China has emerged as an "A" topic in the construction industry.
It was not easy coming to the decision to join the National Roofing Contractors Association study tour to Beijing, China, in July. The cost in terms of time away from regular duties added to the cost in time that it takes getting over a 12-hour time difference is considerable on an adventure such as this. Nonetheless, what pushed me over the edge is that I am always curious about how roofing is done whenever or wherever, and China has emerged as an "A" topic in construction industry news as the alleged culprit consuming all our steel and cement.
The NRCA-sponsored tour was held at this time to give us the opportunity to attend the 2nd China International Exhibition for Building Waterproofing Technology. This trade show was sponsored jointly by the China National Waterproof Building Materials Industry Association, China National Building Materials Group Corporation, and NRCA. All tour participants were rewarded with gracious hospitality from leaders of the Chinese roofing and waterproofing industry. The only glitch in the entire trip came because we are in the roofing industry-one of two job-site visits had to be cancelled because of rain.