ABOUT US AT THE SRCA

The Slate Roofing Contractors Association of North America, Inc. was originally formed as an unincorporated association in Pennsylvania in 2005, then incorporated as an international non-profit trade association in 2008, with members on three continents. The SRCA is a participating member of the International Federation for the Roofing Trades, based in Germany, and an Affiliate Member of the National Roofing Contractors Association. The SRCA has published natural quarried slate roofing installation guidelines (in both English and Spanish), freely available to the public, and is developing slate roof installation, repair, restoration, flashing, and other training programs. We share our knowledge and camaraderie at scheduled conferences, and we volunteer labor and materials at non-SRCA conferences, such as the International Preservation Trades Workshops, where we installed new slate roofs in St. Clairsville, Ohio and in Frankfurt, Kentucky. We organize slate roofing professionals and other contractors and make them available to the public via our Membership Listings, Source Lists, and Contractor Profiles.

 

Slate Roofing Contractors Association booth at the International Roofing Expo 2015 in New Orleans (above). Left to right: John Chan (Durable Slate), Nick Price, Joe Jenkins, Chris Paulin, Gary Howes, Barry Smith, John Mahan, David Thomas, Haroun El-Helw (SSQ)

John Mahan, board member (above), setting up the SRCA booth at the 2013 NERCA Convention in Boston.

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The SRCA at the 2013 International Roofing Expo in San Antonio, Texas. Left to right, Chuck Wagner (board member), Barry Smith (former president) and Jack Mahan (member).

Above: SRCA Board of Directors members are delegates at the 2010 International Federation for the Roofing Trades (IFD) Congress in Belfast, Northern Ireland including John Mahan of Mahan Slate Roofing Company, James Warden of Milligan Construction, Joe Jenkins of Joseph Jenkins, Inc., Robert Ruddy of Mountain State Slate Roofing, Barry Smith of Barry Smith Slate Roofing, and Chris Paulin of Paulin Slate and Copper.

Above: SRCA Board of Directors members are delegates at the 2012 International Federation for the Roofing Trades (IFD) Congress in Lucerne, Switzerland including Chuck Wagner of Wagner Roofing (second from left), Gary Howes of The Durable Slate Company (second from right) and John Mahan of Mahan Slate Roofing Company (far right).

Member meeting, 2007 (above) at home office, western Pennsylvania

SRCA members (above) contributed to the 2005 International Preservation Trades Workshops in St. Clairsville, Ohio, at the Belmont Technical College. Shown above are Milligan Construction (Providence, RI), Smith Slate Roof Restoration (Union City, PA), Paulin Slate and Copper (Akron, Ohio), Joseph Jenkins, Inc. (Grove City, PA), and Camara Slate (Fair Haven, VT). The finished roof is shown below and in a Traditional Roofing Magazine article. Not shown but also present at the IPTW were Durable Slate Company.

SCRA members Jenkins and Camara contributed to the 2005 Natural Building Colloquium in Bath, NY (below), where participants were taught how to install a staggered butt, mixed color slate roof. You can see more of this roof in a Traditional Roofing Magazine article.

SRCA members James Warden (Milligan Construction), the Durable Slate Company, and Joe Jenkins donated time at the 2006 IPTW in New Orleans (below).

James Warden of Milligan Construction (below), volunteered several days of work to demonstrate slate roof repair in the devastated lower 9th ward of New Orleans.

Below are two student volunteers who helped us cut the slates to the proper size.

 

The IPTW 2004 in Mobile, Alabama was attended by SRCA members Milligan Construction, Jenkins, and the Durable Slate Company, all of whom conducted workshops. Below is a group of workshop participants.