AS SEEN IN Forbes, Fortune & Entrepreneur

Community-Centered Construction

Driving development in both the Long Island construction and nonprofit sectors, Gina Farese never backs down when fighting for what’s right.

The roof is the most important part of the home; it protects everything inside” says Gina Farese, Public Insurance Adjuster, owner, and Operations Manager at Marcor Construction, a Long-Island based roofing and exterior home remodeling company. “When my team and I take on a project, we dot our i’s and cross our t’s to make sure that both employees and homeowners have the best possible experience.”

A mother of two and frontrunner in her field, she knows what it takes to excel in a male-dominated industry. Working alongside her competitors rather than against them, she often acts as a subject matter expert for her peers in complicated construction-related insurance procedures and embraces a flexible philosophy that allows her to pivot with the times. When her father, Gary Marzano, founded Marcor Construction in 2008 to assist homeowners, developers, and builders with roofing, siding, and window services, Farese left a career in finance and jumped headfirst into the industry, learning that she excelled in fostering growth opportunities. Today, she incorporates meaningful diversification with separate, yet beneficial, supportive services—such as a supply division with MGM Construction Services that fuels the stock, purchasing, and delivery of materials for third-party projects.

Read Full Article Below:

Gina Farese graduated high school at the age of 16 and received her Bachelor of Science in finance at the age of 19. She began her career on Wall Street in investment banking, where she quickly realized it was not for her. Instead, she decided to team up with her father to help him build his small, local construction company. Farese’s father instilled in her the old school Italian mindset by having her learn the business from the bottom up and earn her keep. While it was not easy, especially as a woman in a man’s world, Farese continued to grow and develop, and is now running the entire company. Blood, sweat and tears went into the beginning of what Farese didn’t realize would be her new career. She got up every day with the right mindset and built the business into a successful, multi-di-vision operation. 

Farese quickly developed an understanding of the overall construction operation and mastered the exterior remodeling side of the field, but she still wasn’t satisfied. In 2011, she received her public adjusters license to assist homeowners with insurance claims as there was a lot of synergy between the homeowner’s insurance world and construction. Today, many attorneys, other public adjusters and insurance brokers rely on her expertise in the roofing and insurance world to assist them in their own day-to-day claims. 

Around 2012, Farese noticed a gap in the roofing and solar industry. Solar was starting to be installed on roofs, but the roofs were not prepared for the longevity of solar. She immersed herself into the solar industry, aligning her company with solar companies to assist with their roofing needs. 

In July of 2020, Farese opened a solar service division of Marcor to support national companies that mistakenly installed solar on poor roofs and now have to address the issues they accidentally caused to the roof years later. In 2022, she launched Roofs for Solar, a national company supported by Owens Corning to set up and manage roofing divisions for regional solar companies.

Finally, she set up MGM as a NYS WBE certified estimating and supply division to support local Long Island builders requiring a NYS WBE certification. Farese is a two-time Top 50 Women in Business Recipient and a 2022 Herald Family Business Award recipient. She regularly donates her time to the betterment of the community, and is also co-chair of Long Island Builders Institute’s Women’s Committee.

Click here for original article

Whether you are buying existing property or thinking about solar install on your current home, have you ever considered how solar panels affect your roof? At Marcor Construction we understand the benefits and downfalls of solar for your home. Solar panels can in fact help protect your roof. The solar panels protect the UV rays of the sun from breaking down the shingle and preventing them from drying out from not facing the direct sunlight. The air flow between the panels and the roof also allow for air flow between the system and your roof, cooling the roof down considerably.

The issue with roofing and solar panels really comes down to the installation. Be sure to hire a professional solar installations company and understand how their bracketing techniques affect your roofing installation and warranties.

Solar should never be installed on an older roof that doesn’t have much life left in it or if the roof was installed against your local code. The benefits of solar on a solid roof could be fantastic, however, not all installers of solar have a lot of roofing knowledge which is what leads to issues when installing solar on a roof. Be sure to ask a lot of questions about the installation methods. In most cases, solar will not negatively affect your roof.