Greeted in the
morning by a panel of industry superstars at the keynote address and
complemented in the afternoon by nearly 400 companies showing off the newest
trends, the International Roofing Expo opened Tuesday at the Mandalay Bay
Convention Center with a
pledge for better times ahead.
Millard Fuller,
the visionary Christian with a single-minded, some say stubborn, focus that
resulted in more than 300,000 houses built for the poor, died unexpectedly
Monday night, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.
Allied Building Products Corp.
announced Bob Feury Jr. as its new chief executive officer, succeeding Michael
Lynch. Feury Jr., who since 2000 has served as Allied Building Products’ chief
operating officer, took over for Lynch effective Jan. 1,
2009.
The U.S. Department of
Energy (DOE) has awarded CertainTeed Corporation the 2008 Save Energy Now
Award, applauding the company’s efforts to reduce energy use at its
manufacturing facility in Shreveport, La.
Basketball Hall
of Famer Bill Walton will not be able to travel to the International Roofing Expo
in Las Vegas to provide the Keynote Address on Feb. 3 due to complications from
a back injury. Instead, the IRE will present, “Power Panel: What
You Need to Know to Survive and Thrive.”
Carlisle Energy Services, a newly formed
division of Carlisle Construction Materials and a manufacturer of
energy-efficient single-ply roofing systems, and Energy Conversion Devices,
Inc., a manufacturer of proprietary, thin-film amorphous silicon-based
photovoltaic (PV) laminates, announced that they have reached a multi-year
agreement for ECD to supply its UNI-SOLAR
laminates to Carlisle Energy Services.
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has
awarded CertainTeed Corporation the 2008 Save Energy Now Award, applauding the
company’s efforts to reduce energy use at its manufacturing facility in
Shreveport, La.
Tremco Incorporated has been awarded a $1 million
Third Frontier Advanced Energy Program (TFAEP) grant from the state of Ohio in the Advanced
Materials category.
The company has eight training centers
across North America and provides hundreds of
complimentary classes to engineers, architects, builders and code officials
each year. Simpson Strong-Tie trained more than 12,000 customers on site last
year.
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