Gulf Western Roofing

Joseph K. Lamb Jr., the owner of Gulf Western Roofing, was 8 years old when his family moved from Washington D.C. to Davie, Florida for a new challenge. His father, Joseph K. Lamb Sr. and uncle, Richard, purchased R&J Roofing. Just a few years later, at the young age of 13, Joseph Lamb Jr. was already gaining experience in the roofing industry.

Working with his father and uncle, Joseph pressure-cleaned, set and repaired tile roofs, carried hot asphalt, completed dry-ins and metals—and even helped haul pea rock to the dump trucks.

As his father’s business continued to grow, Joseph Jr. attended Tulane University before transferring to the University of Florida to study Construction Management. He became a licensed roofing contractor in the 1980s, and later acquired his building contractors license in the 1990s.

Joseph Sr. and Richard ran R&J Roofing until 1982 when they formed R&J Roofing of Palm Beach, Inc., and moved the operation to Boca Raton, Florida. During this time, Joseph Lamb Jr. was project manager for the largest asphalt shingle project in the United States, The Bluffs in Jupiter, Florida—a project by Burg and Divosta.

As Joseph Jr. was broadening his experience, R&J Roofing of Palm Beach was also undergoing rapid growth, expanding to Naples in 1993, and appropriately changing the name to R&J Roofing of Florida. Joseph Lamb Jr. ran the Naples expansion until 1997, when he formed his own contracting company, Lamb Construction Group. Two years later, Joseph Lamb Jr. created Gulf Western Roofing under Lamb Construction Group.