Crew markets, training, safety culture, and labor policy affecting shops.
Construction added 11,000 jobs in September, but residential specialty trade contractors lost 7,900 while data-center work drove nonresidential hiring. Layoffs hit a record low, the August hires rate was the lowest for that month in 26 years, and pay is up 4.3%.
Atlanta’s Guaranteed Roof joined Lance Bachmann’s EM Exteriors platform (Sept. 17). PE-backed ops, TN/NC/SC expansion, rejuvenation-first pitch — terms undisclosed.
From Milwaukee and Metabo HPT cordless coil roofing nailers to SENCO’s CS61H1 cap stapler and Metabo’s September 2026 Cordless Pneumatics lineup, fastening tools keep shedding hoses. What changed for roofing crews.
July–August AGC/NCCER survey: 29% of firms felt enforcement effects, 42% in the South. Roofing shops already short on craft labor need a plan that is not wishful thinking.
You need new hands without tanking squares per day. Here is how to run apprenticeships that protect production.
Cash up front recruits bodies. It does not build crews. Here is what actually moves retention and production in roofing shops.
Severe weather is battering communities — roofing crews are on the front lines again.
Columbus-based Durable Restoration took NRCA’s 2026 Gold Circle for steep-slope workmanship on Cathedral of Saint Helena. What the award signals for independents doing hard historic roofs.
