Chuck Howard is a graduate of The Ohio State University College of Engineering in 1973 with a BS degree in Civil Engineering. He is currently licensed as a professional engineer in sixteen (16) states. He has pursued a career in commercial construction since college graduation, with an emphasis on metal roofing from the start. In the late 1970’s he started a metal roofing company that specialized in retrofit metal roof construction. He followed that career throughout the 1980’s, 1990’s, and early 2000’s, having one of the largest commercial metal roof contracting companies in the US. During that time, he was responsible for approximately 35 million SF of metal roofs, including design. In 2002 he left the contracting arena and entered the professional engineering and consulting arena, where he is operating now as Metal Roof Consultants, Inc. He provides commercial metal roof consulting and engineering for contractors, architects, and building owners. He is accepted as a professional expert in metal roofing in legal proceedings. He is a member of NSPE-NC, ASCE and MBCEA which provide excellent resources to support his consulting business. He can be contacted through his website at www.metalroofconsultants.net.

Dale Nelson is the President of Roof Hugger, LLC. Tampa, FL Roof Hugger, founded in 1991, became a division of the LSI Group, Logansport, IN in 2016. Roof Hugger is a nationally recognized manufacturer of retro-fit framing systems for existing metal roofed buildings. The LSI group also manufactures a wide variety of standing seam roof clips, custom metal roof components and other custom components. Dale holds Florida Real Estate Brokers License and a Class-A Florida Contractors License. He has been in general contracting since 1973; constructing commercial and industrial buildings of all construction types, including wood column & beam, masonry, formed & poured, tilt- wall, and specialized in pre-engineered steel buildings