Blast From IIBEC’s Past: 1991 April 01, 2020 The first Project Manual Competition (now called the Document Competition) was held at the 1991 RCI (now IIBEC) Convention in Colorado Springs, CO. Winners were Dick Canon, Roger Galliher, and Doug Fischer. Jim Magowan, who took over the presidency from Don Bush Sr. in 1991, was also chair of the first Registered Roof Observer […] Read More
Blast From IIBEC’s Past: 1989 February 01, 2020 Paula Baker, shown here with then President James Magowan in 1989, was IIBEC’s first full-time paid employee, hired as an administrative assistant and convention coordinator in November of 1988 and named executive manager in September 1990. She resigned in 1993 when John Newark was named as executive manager. Region I held a meeting in Newark, […] Read More
Blast From IIBEC’s Past: 1988 January 03, 2020 In 1988, Joe Hale agreed to chair RCI’s (now IIBEC’s) Asbestos-Containing Roofing Material Committee, the first new committee to have been formed by the association since its inception. Another new joint committee was formed with the National Roofing Contractors Association (NRCA) to explore mutually agreeable professional relationships between roof consultants and roofing contractors. In November […] Read More
Blast From IIBEC’s Past: 1987 December 03, 2019 The Executive Committee summer workshop meeting of the board of directors of the Roof Consultants Institute (now IIBEC) took place in San Francisco, CA, in August 1987. Seated, left to right: James E. Magowan and Richard “Dick” Canon. Standing, same order: George F. Kanz, Robert W. Phillips Jr., and D.B. “Ben” Hales. At this session, […] Read More
Blast from IIBEC’s Past: 1986 November 01, 2019 Pictured are movers and shakers of RCI (now IIBEC) in 1986. Left to right: George Kanz, Bob Phillips, Bob Lyons, Dick Canon, and D.B. Hales, chairman of the first RCI National Convention, which took place in 1986 in Dallas, Texas. Final analysis revealed that 58% of the membership, listed at 126 members, were in attendance. […] Read More
Blast from IIBEC’s Past: 1985 October 01, 2019 The Roof Consultants Institute’s (now IIBEC’s) board of directors’ summer workshop was held in Charlotte, NC, in July 1985. Seated from the left: Treasurer Bob Martin, Director Bob Lyons, Regent Herbert Busching, President Dick Canon, Secretary Ben Hales, Second VP Bob Phillips, and Executive Director William Correll. The biggest thing on the agenda: plans for […] Read More
