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Our Mission and Commitment
The International Roofing Expo is proud to continue our Sustainability Program at the 2025 event. We recognize our trade show has an impact on the environment. Through our Sustainability Program, we are striving to identify, understand, and address these impacts to achieve continual improvement year after year.
Guided by the Informa Markets FasterForward Program, IRE 2025 will strive to improve the sustainability of the Roofing Industry and our events.
Our Three Pledges
Environmental Responsibility
Social Responsibility
Inspiring Sustainable Development
How Did We Do At IRE 24?
Every year, we challenge our attendees, exhibitors, partners, and vendors to be the most sustainable! Here's an overview of what we did at our event.
What We Did:
- Recycled printed signage – As an annual event, we made sure to develop printed materials that can be reused or recycled
- Reduced printed materials & implemented digital wayfinding – We heavily reduced printed materials and event guides in favor of using the mobile app. We made the expo hall floor plan and agenda available right on the show floor
- Terracycle recycling bins – Attendees & Exhibitors recycled their badges and lanyards at one of the Terracycle bins in the main lobby for a chance to win a $100 gift card!
- Replacing single-use water bottles – We gave our staff and speakers reusable water bottles instead of single-use plastic
containers - Utilized digital signage – We are replaced traditionally printed signage with digital options where possible
Sustainable Exhibitor Program
Join us in our sustainability initiatives and you could win the Most Sustainable Exhibitor award! Show us how you
are reducing your footprint in San Antonio and you could earn an exhibitor prize package worth over $6,000 and the title of the Most Sustainable Exhibitor!
Click this link for more details on this exciting new program.
Attendees and Exhibitors: Do you have your own great story or want to share your efforts?
Post what your company is doing on social media and tag it with #RoofingProtects. The person who makes the biggest impact will win a $100 gift card to shop local near them.
Click the plus sign below to see what the IRE is doing in each category!
About the Event
Each year the International Roofing Expo partners with a local chapter of the non-profit organization Rebuilding Together to help make critical home repairs for low-income local community members in need, including veterans, the elderly, and the disabled. The annual IRE Community Service Day Project consists of a volunteer day, monetary donations, and sponsor donations.
Volunteer Day
For our volunteer day, IRE attendees and exhibitors sign up to physically work making the repairs to homes or other local community projects. The volunteer day is held a day before the show opens.
Donations
During registration and on our website, IRE attendees and exhibitors can make a monetary donation to help us raise $15,000 to assist with the cost of the home repairs. The International Roofing Expo also makes a monetary donation each year to the project.
Sponsors
The IRE works with various sponsors to help raise money for the project, secure donated supplies, and help cover the volunteer day's expenses. In addition, each year, we work with companies to donate the labor and supplies to replace one or more roofs for people in need.
Terracycle recycling bins
Recycle your badges and lanyards at one of the Terracycle bins in the main lobby and you could win a $100 gift card!
Our host venue
The Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center (HBGCC) was awarded LEED Silver Certification in August 2017 for building design and building operation in the New Construction LEED Certification category. Points were assigned for sustainable site development, water efficiencies, energy and atmosphere, materials and resources, and indoor environmental qualities.
Better Stands Program
We aim to unite and encourage exhibitors, along with their appointed contractors, to build reusable stands instead of single-use disposable ones.
Our venue:
Bags used for recycled items are made from 100% recyclable material 100% biodegradable bags are used for garbage Hand Towels and Toilet Paper are made from 100% recyclable material The majority of office supplies, custodial products, and cleaning supplies are eco-conscious; recycled copy paper is used Green cleaning chemicals are biodegradable, nontoxic, eco-friendly, and non-corroding
The Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center:
- The HBGCC has been diverting various materials since 2006. Materials diverted include:
- Cardboard
- Polyurethane foam (carpet padding)
- Scrap metal
- Paper
- Glass
- Plastics
- Aluminum
- Our facilities use comingle recycling compactors to divert waste from landfills
- Since July 2009 to March 2022 the total tonnage diverted from landfills exceeded 1813 tons
- Other items recycled by our business partners include telephones, cables/wires, and toner
- Convention Center staff practice stringent energy conservation. Lights, air conditioning, and escalators are kept at reduced or off settings when areas of the building are not in use
- The upgraded Building Control System allows for better scheduling of building systems
- Improved energy efficiencies include:
- Upgraded lighting fixtures and ballasts
- Solar Thermal window film
- Improved HVAC components and control systems
- Dishwashers are used for glassware for head table water service
- Bottle filling stations are located within the building
- 100% of restroom faucets, soap dispensers and paper towel dispensers are battery free
- 100% of faucets, commodes, and urinals are low flow
- 100% of lighting in the expansion is energy efficient
How To Get Involved
At the International Roofing Expo, you can make a difference! Help build a sustainable future and reduce your carbon footprint. From using a reusable water bottle to utilizing digital sales materials, there are tons of ways attendees and exhibitors can help make a difference.
Would you like to work with us on the sustainability of our event? Contact us at [email protected].
As part of our FasterForward program, Informa Markets has committed to a series of specific and ambitious goals and activities that, over a five year period, will help us become an even more sustainable, high impact business while supporting and accelerating change in our markets.
It commits us to a series of activities between 2020-2025 that will ensure we move FasterForward to become an ever more sustainable, positive impact business. We are moving FasterForward to embed sustainability into everything we do and help our customers and specialist markets do the same. Delivering on this will help us champion specialists in new and more engaging ways.
Informa Markets Approach to Sustainable Business
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