The Worldwide Roofing Expo (IRE), North America’s largest roofing and exteriors occasion, convened greater than 600 exhibitors from over 15 international locations and almost 16,000 trade professionals over three days, from February 19 to 21 on the Henry B. González Conference Middle in San Antonio.
The occasion attracts professionals equivalent to contractors, remodelers, builders, distributors, architects, engineers, and producers. ABC Provide, GAF, SRS Distribution, Polyglass, Beacon, OMG Roofing, and Tesla Power had been among the many prime acknowledged exhibiting manufacturers throughout greater than 18,581 m2 (200,000 sf) of exhibitor area, the most important present area within the occasion’s historical past.
This 12 months’s expo flooring was a hub of creativity, that includes cutting-edge merchandise and applied sciences poised to remodel the roofing and exterior panorama. Prime new options included sustainable roofing supplies, superior photo voltaic integration options, AI-powered undertaking administration instruments, drone expertise for roof inspections, preventative employee security instruments, and weather-resistant sturdy options.
The Revolutionary Product Showcase and Awards Program displayed the supplies, merchandise, and providers competing for the Individuals’s Selection and Knowledgeable’s Selection Awards. The competition winners will probably be introduced on March 12, and voting will shut on March 7.
Convention training programming lined 47 classes on numerous subjects equivalent to enterprise growth, communications, profession growth, mentoring, recruitment, and roofing expertise. Present flooring training hubs additionally supplied hands-on demos on exterior set up, steel roofing, roof flashing, and single-ply roofing. The Exteriors Pavilion hosted training, constructing clinics, and exhibit area devoted to residential exterior initiatives and merchandise, empowering enterprise homeowners to develop their product and repair choices.
Recognizing the Hispanic group’s vital contributions to the roofing trade, IRE utilized a brand new expertise to translate and transcribe the keynote deal with, your complete convention program, and all 4 present flooring demonstration clinics into Spanish.
“IRE is the cornerstone for the roofing and exteriors enterprise. The emphasis on group, studying, and nurturing rising abilities displays our dedication to addressing the sector’s present wants and future challenges,” says Wealthy Russo, group occasion director for Informa Markets and the Worldwide Roofing Expo. “The expansion the market is experiencing and the keenness we’ve seen over these three days displays the trade’s resilience and entrepreneurial spirit.”
This 12 months, organizers positioned a particular deal with novices in roofing, aligning with the sector’s urgent must bridge the labor hole for expert professionals. The Roofing Alliance hosted its 11th version of the Development Administration Scholar Competitors, gathering six groups of college college students from Auburn College, Bradley College, Cal Poly, Clemson College, College of North College, and Texas A&M College to current a undertaking testing development administration abilities and roofing information. College students join on-site with producers, laborers, enterprise homeowners, and answer suppliers, fostering collaboration and growth to arrange staff for future challenges and alternatives.
Highlighting the trade’s collective spirit of social accountability, the 16th annual Group Service Day, sponsored by Sika in partnership with Rebuilding Collectively San Antonio & Austin, 30 professionals volunteered to restore the properties of native pastor Tim Adams and his household. The volunteers contributed landscaping, fence, soffit and fascia restore, deck development, and a brand new roof set up, with donations from Fry Roofing and GAF.
Analysis from The Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention stories that the development trade has the second-highest suicide fee of all main industries in america. Non-profit group Roofers in Restoration—one of many present’s exhibitors—empowers folks in must stabilize and enhance employee’s lives by way of therapy applications.
“There is no such thing as a connection like an in-person face-to-face assembly, the place you may truly set up a relationship with somebody. IRE is the place to make these connections. In case you are contemplating attending or exhibiting, completely make that decision. Come to the IRE,” says Keenan Perry, director of area and occasion advertising and marketing at SRS Distribution. “If somebody had been asking me if I’d exhibit, I’d completely say, come exhibit. Find out about what folks’s wants are. It’ll enable you develop your small business. That is the present to go to. Our expertise on the 2025 IRE has been the very best I’ve seen in my 5 years of exhibiting right here on the present and can’t look ahead to subsequent 12 months.”
The Worldwide Roofing Expo returns to Las Vegas subsequent 12 months on the Las Vegas Conference Middle within the West Corridor, January 20-22, 2026.
