Journal of Japanese Gardening, Jan/Feb 2003

John Hall of the Portland Japanese Gardens wrote:

“We were fortunate to discover CC&L Roofing of Portland. The president, Dan Cornwell, and his foreman are both experienced wih Japanese roofs. Moreover, they have worked closely with a major importer of JN tile in Los Angeles, so they oculd easily get additional advice if needed. The crew worked quietly and unobtrusively, which is no small consideration for a heavily visited public garden.”

DECRA Forum newsletter, volume 1 issue 3

Contractor Profile: Dan Cornwell of CC&L Roofing Company

“Since Dan Cornwell opened CC&L Roofing company in 1978, he has been eavily involved with the roofing industry. As the owner of a specialty roofing compny, Cornwell and 50 employees at his Portland, Oregon office serve high-end roofing clients. CC&L Roofing Co. primarily serves the Portland metropolitan area, but also Seattle, northern California and the Oregon Coast.

Although Cornwell’s business is in the Pacific Northwest, his name is familiar to many people in the roofing industry throughout the entire West. Over the past nine years, Cornwell has serve don both the Western States Roofing Contractors Association board of directors, the executive committee and more recently elected president of the WSRCA.”

The U.S. Green Building Council, 2006

Worked with the Stoller Winery in Dayton, Oregon to achieve LEED -NC v2 Gold certification. The Stoller Winery was the first LEED certified winery in the country. (Include scan of certificate.)

Home Building News, Feb. 2007

Member Profile: Dan Cornwell

How’d you get started: I got started two weeks short on pay in 1978 when the roofing company I was employed by decided it would be cheaper to use subcontractors than to have the overhead associated with employees. They informed us tat they couldn’t make payroll and if we wanted to keep working we should become subcontractors and they would pay us when they got paid. My business partner Mike Cooper and I set-up shop that day and the following week we were working as sub-subs for three different established companies and shortly became the in-house installer for Perma-Roof, the tile plant where we had started out. We sold 1/3 of our yet-to-be-established company to Dale Logan for $1,200 in start-up money and formed CC&L Roofing. Logan departed the firm two years later but we help onto the name as we had begun to build our reputation.

Secrets to success: Never quit. You can’t win all the time, but those who can withstand the most failures without giving in will persevere in the long run.

Measuring success: While getting filthy rich is nice, and I hope there is still time for that, my measurement of success is in the building of a reputation for providing the technical expertise and absolute highest level of quality to complete the most challenging roofing projects, and then doing it.