My plan for this column, the last of 2020, was to call out some of the best things about the year for the roofing industry. The first item on the list was simple: It’s almost over!

It seems the roofing industry, despite all the challenges we face year after year, always proves its resiliency. Few businesses are recession proof, but roofing seems to do better than most. Being a key part of providing shelter, a basic human need, roof contracting has always been an “essential” trade. Therefore, in 2020, the roofing industry was broadly recognized as such so roofing work was able to continue in most jurisdictions after quickly adapting to working in a pandemic world. This alone may have been the best thing for roofing in 2020.