SEC Form 4 
FORM 4	UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549

STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP

Filed pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
or Section 30(h) of the Investment Company Act of 1940 	  
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1. Name and Address of Reporting Person*
LIPKE BRIAN J	

(Last)	(First)	(Middle)	
3556 LAKE SHORE RD	
P O BOX 2028	

(Street) 
BUFFALO	NY	14219-0228	

(City)	(State)	(Zip)	
	2. Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol 
GIBRALTAR INDUSTRIES, INC. [ ROCK ] 	5. Relationship of Reporting Person(s) to Issuer 
(Check all applicable) 
X	Director		10% Owner	
X	Officer (give title below)		Other (specify below)	
Chairman and CEO	
		
	3. Date of Earliest Transaction (Month/Day/Year)
07/31/2007 		
	4. If Amendment, Date of Original Filed (Month/Day/Year)	6. Individual or Joint/Group Filing (Check Applicable Line) 
X	Form filed by One Reporting Person	
	Form filed by More than One Reporting Person	
	
Table I - Non-Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned	
1. Title of Security (Instr. 3) 	2. Transaction Date (Month/Day/Year)	2A. Deemed Execution Date, if any (Month/Day/Year)	3. Transaction Code (Instr. 8) 	4. Securities Acquired (A) or Disposed Of (D) (Instr. 3, 4 and 5) 	5. Amount of Securities Beneficially Owned Following Reported Transaction(s) (Instr. 3 and 4) 	6. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 4) 	7. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 4) 	
			Code	V	Amount	(A) or (D)	Price				
Common Stock	07/31/2007		A		9,167(1) 	A	$0 	99,593	D		
Common Stock	07/31/2007		D		4,015(1) 	D	$22.8 	95,578	D		
Restricted Stock Unit								39,728(2) 	D		
Common Stock								5,235.47	I	Gibraltar Industries, Inc. 401(k) Savings Plan(3) 	
Restricted Stock Unit								33,756(4) 	D		
Restricted Stock Unit								27,504(5) 	D		
Restricted Stock Unit								150,000(6) 	D		
Common Stock								89,352	I	By Trust(7) 	
Common Stock								180,900	I	Rush Creek(8) 	
Common Stock								896,040	I	By Trust(9) 	
Common Stock								10,507	I	By Trust(10) 	
Common Stock								8,407	I	By Trust(11) 	
Common Stock								10,050	I	By Trust(12) 	
Common Stock								5,220	I	By Trust(13) 	
Common Stock								91,320	I	By Trust(14) 	
Common Stock								45,000	I	By Trust(15) 	
Common Stock								8,700	I	By Trust(16) 	
Common Stock								8,909	I	By Trust(17) 	
Common Stock								2,077	I	By Trust(18) 	
Table II - Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned
(e.g., puts, calls, warrants, options, convertible securities) 	
1. Title of Derivative Security (Instr. 3) 	2. Conversion or Exercise Price of Derivative Security 	3. Transaction Date (Month/Day/Year)	3A. Deemed Execution Date, if any (Month/Day/Year)	4. Transaction Code (Instr. 8) 	5. Number of Derivative Securities Acquired (A) or Disposed of (D) (Instr. 3, 4 and 5) 	6. Date Exercisable and Expiration Date (Month/Day/Year)	7. Title and Amount of Securities Underlying Derivative Security (Instr. 3 and 4) 	8. Price of Derivative Security (Instr. 5) 	9. Number of derivative Securities Beneficially Owned Following Reported Transaction(s) (Instr. 4) 	10. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 4) 	11. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 4) 	
				Code	V	(A)	(D)	Date Exercisable	Expiration Date	Title	Amount or Number of Shares					
Option to Buy(19) 	$15 							03/27/1999	03/27/2008	Common Stock	75,000		75,000	D		
Option to Buy(19) 	$9.38 							07/18/2001	07/18/2010	Common Stock	18,750		18,750	D		
Explanation of Responses:	
1. Represents the conversion of restricted stock units previously awarded to the Reporting Person upon the vesting of such restricted stock units. Gibraltar Industries, Inc. retained 4,015 of the 9,167 shares of common stock issuable to the Reporting Person in satisfaction of the Reporting Person's individual minimum statutory income tax withholding obligation at a price per share determined as of the vesting date.	
2. Restricted Stock Units awarded as part of Company's long term incentive plan. Twenty-five percent (25%) of total units awarded vest and are payable, solely in shares of common stock of the Company on each anniversary of the April 27, 2007 award date.	
3. Represents the number of units held by the reporting person in the unitized stock fund of the Gibraltar Industries, Inc. 401(k) Savings Plan. The unitized stock fund consists of stock of Gibraltar Industries, Inc. and cash and other short term investments. The number of shares of stock represented by each unit fluctuates depending on the ratio of the number of shares of stock of Gibraltar Industries, Inc. in the fund to other investments. The number of shares represented by each unit cannot be precisely determined.	
4. Represents restricted stock units awarded as part of the Company's long term incentive plan on April 6, 2005 which vest and are payable in cash or common stock on the fourth anniversary of the award grant.	
5. Represents the number of restricted stock units remaining with respect to March 1, 2006 grant of 36,671 restricted stock units after conversion to common stock of 9,167 restricted stock units resulting from vesting of twenty-five percent (25%) of such restricted stock units on the anniversary of the grant date.	
6. These Restricted Units have been approved for award as a supplemental retirement benefit and vest and are payable upon the executive's retirement at or after age 60.	
7. Represents shares indirectly held by trust created under the Last Will and Testament of Kenneth E. Lipke for the benefit of the mother of reporting person as to which trust reporting person serves as one of three trustees and shares voting and investment power.	
8. Shares held indirectly representing the pecuniary interest of reporting person in shares of Gibraltar Industries, Inc. common stock held by Rush Creek Investment Co., LP. The reporting person disclaims beneficial interest in such shares, except to the extent of his beneficial interest.	
9. Represents shares held by a trust for the benefit of reporting person of which he serves as one of three trustees and shares voting and investment power.	
10. Represents shares held indirectly by trust for the benefit of the daughter of reporting person (Katherine Victoria).	
11. Represents shares held indirectly by trust for the benefit of a child (Carlisle Lipke-Ricci) of an insider of Gibraltar Industries, Inc., which the reporting person serves as one of four trustees and shares voting and investment power and as to which shares he disclaims beneficial ownership.	
12. Represents shares held indirectly by trust for the benefit of a child (Kenneth Eric Lipke) of an insider of Gibraltar Industries, Inc., which the reporting person serves as one of three trustees and shares voting and investment power and as to which shares he disclaims beneficial ownership.	
13. Represents shares held indirectly by reporting person as custodian for daughter under UGMANY.	
14. Represents shares indirectly held by trust for the benefit of reporting person of which the reporting person serves as one of five trustees and shares voting and investment power.	
15. Represents shares indirectly held by trust for the benefit of an insider of Gibraltar Industries, Inc., of which the reporting person serves as one of five trustees and shares voting and investment power, and as to which shares he disclaims beneficial ownership.	
16. Represents shares indirectly held by trust for the benefit of a child (Erica Rae Lipke) of an insider of Gibraltar Industries, Inc., which the reporting person serves as one of three trustees and shares voting and investment power and as to which shares he disclaims beneficial ownership.	
17. Represents shares indirectly held by trust for the benefit of reporting person's daughter (Elissa Kristina).	
18. Represents shares indirectly held by reporting person as custodian for relative under UGMANY (Jonathon Solomon).	
19. Grant to reporting person of option to buy shares of common stock under Gibraltar Industries, Inc. Incentive Stock Option Plan. Options exercisable at rate of twenty-five percent (25%) per year. The exercise price and number of underlying securities reflect a 3:2 stock split effected in November of 2004.	
	/s/Paul J. Schulz, Attorney in Fact for Brian J. Lipke	08/02/2007	
	** Signature of Reporting Person	Date	
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BRIAN J. LIPKE
LIMITED POWER OF ATTORNEY FOR SECTION 16 REPORTING OBLIGATIONS

Know all by these presents, that the undersigned hereby makes, constitutes and appoints each of Gerald S. Lippes, Michael E. Storck and Paul J. Schulz, each acting individually, as the undersigned's true and lawful attorney-in-fact, with full power and authority as hereinafter described on behalf of and in the name, place and stead of the undersigned to:

(1)  prepare, execute, acknowledge, deliver and file Forms 3, 4, and 5 (including any amendments thereto) with respect to the securities of Gibraltar Steel Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the "Company"), with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, any national securities exchanges and the Company, as considered necessary or advisable under Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, as amended from time to time (the "Exchange Act");

(2)  seek or obtain, as the undersigned's representative and on the undersigned's behalf, information on transactions in the Company's securities from any third party, including brokers, employee benefit plan administrators and trustees, and the undersigned hereby authorizes any such person to release any such information to each of the undersigned's attorneys-in-fact appointed by this Power of Attorney and approves and ratifies any such release of information; and

(3)  perform any and all other acts which in the discretion of such attorney-in-fact are necessary or desirable for and on behalf of the undersigned in connection with the foregoing.

The undersigned acknowledges that:

(1)  this Power of Attorney authorizes, but does not require, each such attorney-in-fact to act in their discretion on information provided to such attorney-in-fact without independent verification of such information;

(2)  any documents prepared and/or executed by either such attorney-in-fact on behalf of the undersigned pursuant to this Power of Attorney will be in such form and will contain such information and disclosure as such attorney-in-fact, in his or her discretion, deems necessary or desirable;

(3)  neither the Company nor either of such attorneys-in-fact assumes (i) any liability for the undersigned's responsibility to comply with the requirement of the Exchange Act, (ii) any liability of the undersigned for any failure to comply with such requirements, or (iii) any obligation or liability of the undersigned for profit disgorgement under Section 16(b) of the Exchange Act; and

(4)  this Power of Attorney does not relieve the undersigned from responsibility for compliance with the undersigned's obligations under the Exchange Act, including without limitation the reporting requirements under Section 16 of the Exchange Act.

The undersigned hereby gives and grants each of the foregoing attorneys-in-fact full power and authority to do and perform all and every act and thing whatsoever requisite, necessary or appropriate to be done in and about the foregoing matters as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do if present, hereby ratifying all that each such attorney-in-fact of, for and on behalf of the undersigned, shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue of this Limited Power of Attorney.

This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until revoked by the undersigned in a signed writing delivered to each such attorney-in-fact.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to be executed as of this ____ day of December, 2005.

___________________________________
Brian J. Lipke

STATE OF NEW YORK
SS:
COUNTY OF __________

On the ____ day of December in the year 2005, before me, the undersigned, a notary public in and for said state, personally appeared Brian J. Lipke, personally known to me or provided to me on the basis of satisfactory evidence to be the individual(s) whose name(s) is (are) subscribed to the within instrument and acknowledged to me that he/she/they executed the same in his/her/their capacity(ies), and that by his/her/their signature(s) on the instrument, the individual(s) or the person upon behalf of which the individual(s) acted, executed the instrument.

_____________________________
Notary Public