S PRI NG 2011 IN THIS ISSUE:
THE VOICE OF PROFESSIONAL ROOFING CONTRACTORS
Vol. 8, No. 1 • SPRING 2011
Member profile
FEATURES: Member profile: Parker Johnston Industries..................1,6 Project profile: BC’s first aircleaning roof installed ..............8 Innovation: TPO coated accessories ...........10 Vegetative roofing systems .. 12 Tying off for fall protection.... 14 Profile: Pro-Line .......................15 Roof Lifters: adding space ..... 21 ASSOCIATION: President’s message .................. 3 Crane certification in effect ...... 4 CRCA ROOFTech 2011 ...............4 Changing of the guard .............. 5 RPM now online ....................... 5 Subscribe to Roofing BC ........17
Capital impact
INDUSTRY NEWS: Reroofing dominates BC........... 4 Modular homes for BC? ......... 16 JM building EPDM plant.........16 Canada Place’s PTFE roof ...... 16 Blind leading the sighted ....... 17 RKW buys Danafilms.............. 19 Colourful roof shingles ........... 20 Architects’ festival coming.......18 Carlisle’s new Polyiso plant....18 Steels, Owens Corning deal... 18
Parker Johnston has shaped Victoria’s skyline By Frank O’Brien
Rod Parker, immediate past president of the Roofing Contractors Association of BC and general manager of Parker Johnston Industries Ltd., of Victoria, is no newcomer to the roofing industry. According to Parker, when his school principal “gave me a week off” at age 12 he landed a job packing half-buckets of tar to a Victoria rooftop. The education proved profound. Today Parker, 34, helps head one of Vancouver Island’s largest roofing contracting companies. With a staff of 250 with 35 field crews, Parker has been involved in some of the biggest – and most challenging – construction projects in BC’s capital city. In the past two years alone, Parker Johnston has completed roofing contracts for the Royal Jubilee Hospital Patient Care Tower, the 17-storey, glass-roofed Atrium office tower downtown, the University of Victoria Social Sciences and Mathematics, the Pacific Institute for Sport Excellence and all four phases at the giant Dockside Green, said to be the most environmentally progressive development in the world. Currently, the veteran firm is working on contracts for the 80,000 square-foot Uptown Phase II shopping mall in Saanich; Land Rover Victoria and the North Saanich Middle School.
COLUMN Legal Affairs: Ugly Facebooks ....................... 22
RCABC: changing of the guard Not good-bye, but see you soon. See page 5
Strategic planning in Phoenix RCABC members map the future. See page 3
Clearing the air Rod Parker, general manager of Parker Johnston Industries Ltd., Victoria
PARKER continued on page 6
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Old technology finds new life in aircleaning Noxite roofing products. See pages 8-9