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One of the most interesting and most challenging tasks our editorial staff faces each year is choosing the winners of our Roofing Contractor of the Year awards.

It struck me as somehow odd that the nation’s homebuilders would back an initiative by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to require full fall protection for workers when they do so little by way of their construction design to accommodate worker safety — at least regarding the protection of workers who must work at heights.

I’m no roofer or technical manager, but I often have the privilege of hanging around some of the best in the industry. Here are some of their tips for the initial stages of a TPO (thermoplastic polyolefin) single-ply roofing membrane installation.

I wrote a blog posting some months back that was so spicy it was never tossed into the world-wide vapor by way of Roofing Contractor. To be candid, I do not blame our editorial process; I had offended nearly every sensibility out there. So I approach this topic a bit more gently, but genuinely.
 

Roofing Contractor’s Best of Success Conference recently wrapped up two power-packed days in Clearwater Beach, Fla. I’ve said before it’s my favorite event of the year, and it definitely did not disappoint next year.