Slate Roofing Contractors Association
IFD
International Federation for the Roofing Trades
The 73rd IFD Congress in conjunction with the IFD AWARD will take place in Bratislava, Slovakia from October 22-25, 2025. The 74th IFD Congress and the 30th World Championship of Young Roofers (Pitched – Metal – Flat Roof) / Facade Builders will be held in Budapest, Hungary from October 12-16, 2026. We kindly ask you to save these dates in your calendar.
2024 Innsbruck, Austria
The World Championships for Young Roofers was held in Innsbruck at the International Federation for the Roofing Trades (IFD) Congress, November 13-15, 2024. Three US roofing teams competed. This is the first time any US teams have competed. The winning "steep slope" team was Austria:
2023 Bolzano, Italy
The 2023 IFD Congress and Awards took place in the northern Italian Alps in the 850-year-old village of Bolzano. Renaissance Roofing, Inc., [Contact: Robert Raleigh III, 2231 Hawkey Drive, Belvidere, IL 61008; Ph: 800-699-5695] took first place in the metal roofing category [the Martin County Courthouse (Minnesota) Copper Dome and Standing Seam Roof Replacement.]. The Durable Slate Company took 3rd place in the "steep slope" category [the Maryland State House Dome restoration].
Above: The entire USA group attending the 2023 IFD in Bolzano, Italy.
Below: l-r, Lon Gorsch of Renaissance, John Chan and Gary Howes of Durable Slate, Robert Raleigh III of Renaissance.
Above: Renaissance's first place winner.
Below: Durable Slate's 3rd place winner:
IFD 2019 Edinburgh, Scotland
September 25-28, 2019
Left to right: Board Vice-chair John Mahan, Board Chair Gary Howes, Executive Director Joe Jenkins, Director Nick Price, Director Korby Grist
IFD Award Competition 2019, SRCA Wins Big!
The Durable Slate Company takes the Gold with the Steeple Square copper turret project:
Grist Slate and Tile placed as a finalist in the steep slope category with the incredible Fairmont Empress roof restoration in Canada.
2018 Riga, Latvia
2017 Vienna, Austria
2014 Bucharest, Romania
The gala banquet and awards ceremony was attended by the entire USA group (below), plus an Irish friend, Helmut Clissmann (left to right: Nick Price, Melissa Price, Sarah Mahan, John Mahan, Julie Palmer, Joe Jenkins, Helmut Clissmann, Henry Mitchell).
2013, Rotterdam, Holland
The conference was held in the hotel ship the SS Rotterdam:
The gala banquet on the final evening was entertaining. Shown below is SRCA Executive Director Joe Jenkins (center), Helmut from Ireland on the right and Nigel from the UK on the left.
2012, Lucerne, Switzerland
Read the full, illustrated report by SRCA Board members, Gary Howes and Chuck Wagner.
Read a summary of the event written by Bob Coutts, UK Team Mentor.
2011, Dublin, Ireland
Liam Tower of Slate Affair, Inc., VP of the SRCA, has received an International Federation for the Roofing Trades Award in "Pitched Roofing," presented to four finalists in Dublin, Ireland, November 4th, 2011 at the IFD Congress. Austria won first place. Liam's work on a bell-shaped slate roof certainly deserved recognition. There were 18 submissions from 9 countries in this category. Read the announcement from the IFD here.
2010, Belfast, N. Ireland
The SRCA sent six Board members to Belfast, Northern Ireland, plus seven additional guests, to their first IFD Congress as SRCA delegates.
