National Roofing

F rom schools and stores to hotels and hospitals, National Roofing has covered it. Over the last four decades, the Albuquerque-based company has installed roofing systems all across the southwestern states of New Mexico, Texas, Arizona, Utah, and Colorado. The plan over the next few years is for National Roofing to enter a new side of the construction business. “Now our goal is to not just be a roofing company, but to become a total building envelope company,” reports National Roofing President Jackson Johns. “We do the horizontal really well; keeping people’s stuff dry, and conditioned air inside the building, so we figure we can tackle the vertical plane as well.” Since being founded in 1976, National Roofing has already grown to a company with about 140 employees that expects to reach $20 million in revenue this year. The aim is to reach $50 million in the next decade. New services and mergers with related entities will help, but at the core of National Roofing’s growth plan is a commitment to quality that has guided the company since the beginning. The firm’s origin story is baked into Johns’ memory through continual retellings from his father, Tom Johns. In the mid-1970s, Tom Johns and a partner were doing piece work, shingling houses for another roofing company. The pair decided to set out on their own after one too many payment disagreements with their employer. “And so they started National Roofing,” Jackson recalls. AT A GLANCE NATIONAL ROOFING WHAT: Award-winning roofing contractor WHERE: Albuquerque, New Mexico WEBSITE: www.nationalroofing.com FING “Thinking on Top”