The proposed funding, to be distributed through the pre-disaster assistance Building Resilience in Communities (BRIC) program, will double from $500 million to $1 billion.

The roofing industry learned a lot from joining forces in the past year, and the EPDM Roofing Association will capitalize on the relationships it built to grow the industry beyond the pandemic.

Ford-Smith has been with Johns Manville for more than a decade, introducing innovative marketing strategies and developing customer-driven sales in B2B and B2C environments.

Industry association leaders assess how the third quarter of 2020 compares to previous quarters while examining issues plaguing the roofing industry in the near future.

New report provides state-of-the-art tactics to create resilient roofs and details legislative advances that fund efforts to protect built environments from cataclysmic natural events.

 Jennifer Ford-Smith, director of marketing and single-ply product management at Johns Manville, has been named the new chairman of the EPDM Roofing Association.