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Category: Roof Consulting

05/28/2025

Risk, Resilience & ROI: The Case for Hiring a Building Envelope Consultant

Whether you’re planning new construction or working to extend the life of an aging facility, a successful building envelope strategy

04/22/2025

Spring into Action: Leveraging Roof Assessments to Lower Total Cost of Ownership

As the last traces of winter fade and spring temperatures settle in, facility managers face a narrow but critical window

03/25/2025

From Planning to Execution: How to Manage Building Envelope Projects Effectively

As a facility manager, ensuring the long-term performance of your building’s envelope is paramount. The building envelope plays a crucial

02/26/2025

Winter Facility Management Tips: How to Keep Your Building Safe and Efficient

As winter persists, facility managers must focus on ensuring their buildings are prepared to withstand the harsh conditions that continue

01/29/2025

New Year, New Building Goals: How to Set Achievable Facility Management Objectives for 2025

As we enter 2025, building owners and facilities managers face a unique opportunity to refine their approach to managing their

11/20/2024

Understanding Cleveland’s New Parking Garage Ordinance and How to Stay Compliant

Cleveland has recently implemented a new ordinance aimed at enhancing the safety and structural integrity of parking garages throughout the

10/30/2024

Achieving Sustainability: The Solve Phase for Building Owners and Facility Managers

For building owners and facility managers, understanding the process of integrating sustainable practices is essential. An important step is the

09/25/2024

Understanding Building Enclosure Commissioning vs. Materials Testing

When it comes to constructing buildings, ensuring the integrity of the building enclosure—the barrier between the interior and exterior—is crucial.

08/27/2024

How Facilities Managers Can Best Leverage Construction Technology

Technology seems to be evolving at an exponential speed. From artificial intelligence and machine learning to augmented reality, it can

07/25/2024

Five Signs That Your Aging Façade Needs Attention

Whether masonry, concrete or a glass curtain wall, the façade of a building is a visitor’s first impression. It’s also

06/26/2024

How to Avoid Run-to-Failure and Reduce Emergency Spend

There are many things throughout life that require investment. For instance, if you invest in your physical health with proper

05/29/2024

Stay Safe Up There: How to Identify and Address Common Rooftop Fall Hazards

Falls from heights are a leading cause of serious work-related injuries and deaths. They are also the number one cause

04/25/2024

Below-Grade Waterproofing: What It Is and Why You Need It

Two of the most common threats to the structural integrity and performance of the building envelope are below-grade uncontrolled water

03/25/2024

Spring Storms: Hail Damage, How to Spot It and What You Need to Know

We all know springtime brings warmer temperatures and rain, but it also can bring severe storms that include wind and

02/14/2024

How to Make the Most of Your Commercial Roof Warranties

An insurance policy is a contract between the insurer and policyholder. That contract acts as a form of protection. Your

01/01/2024

Process-Based Goals vs Outcome-Based Goals for Facility Managers

The month of January is often the time when we reflect on the previous year and set new goals for

11/28/2023

7 Elements to Develop a Comprehensive Facility Asset Management Plan

With proactive, planned life cycle management, it’s possible to eliminate one or more roof system capital renewals over the total

10/23/2023

Building Enclosure Tips for Colder Climates

For those of us in the northern hemisphere, cold weather is fast approaching. Is your building prepared? Cold weather can

09/29/2023

Does Your Parking Garage Need a Condition Assessment?

Your parking garage and surface lot often serve as the first impression to your visitors. Regular maintenance of these areas

09/26/2023

Assessing Your Building Envelope’s Performance Using Drones and Thermal Imaging

The building envelope is the most important system in a structure. It is the boundary between a building’s interior and

07/26/2023

Your Building Enclosure Commissioning (BECx) Checklist

As the need for sustainable, energy efficient structures continue to increase so do the performance requirements for these buildings. Building

06/27/2023

What is Retro-commissioning (RCx) and When Do You Need It?

Building Enclosure Commissioning often comes to mind with new construction—things like air barrier, water penetration and thermal testing to ensure

05/19/2023

Understanding the Building Envelope

The building envelope is the boundary between a building’s interior and the exterior environment. It is arguably the most important

04/20/2023

Spring Cleaning Roof Checklist

Spring is often associated with spring cleaning as we emerge from the cocoon of winter. While it’s a great time

03/15/2023

5 Causes of Water Infiltration in the Building Envelope

Rising temps, melting snow and April showers may lead to May flowers, but they can also lead to leaks in

02/24/2023

Building Enclosure Performance Testing Methods

Building enclosures can directly affect the longevity and energy efficiency of a building. Therefore, there is a need for experts

02/17/2023

You’ve Heard of Freeze/Thaw, but What About Snow Load and Ponding Water?

We’ve already discussed some of the top winter roofing hazards and how they can affect the structural integrity of your

02/06/2023

Top 5 Winter Roofing Hazards

Winter can be one of the harshest seasons offering up wind, freezing temperatures, ice, hail and snow. The elements can

01/24/2023

Prioritize Project Spend with a Façade Assessment

Restorative construction projects to a building’s exterior façade can be expensive. The goal of façade management with Technical Assurance is

11/28/2022

A Closer Look at Our Fall Protection Hazard Assessment Process

We’ve already covered why rooftop fall protection is so important. Not only do these measures keep you OSHA compliant, but

10/31/2022

Why Rooftop Fall Protection is Critical

Commercial rooftops pose potential risk to any employees working on them, whether they’re, performing repairs, cleaning drains and gutters or

09/21/2022

Design-Build Method: Benefits of Single-Source Contracting for Capital Building Projects

What was once thought of as an alternative or radical way to manage capital projects is now becoming the norm.

07/28/2022

Benefits of Hiring a Building Envelope Consultant

Engaging a building envelope consultant is like working with a professional trainer to achieve your fitness goals. He’s an expert

05/17/2022

Roof Management: 5 Unavoidable Obstacles

Regardless of building material quality, the forces of nature are going to affect your building enclosure. The building envelope’s main

05/12/2022

Façade Management: 5 Natural Threats

Natural elements are an unavoidable element of façade management. Weather behaviors will be an obstacle to a sound building enclosure,

03/28/2022

Freeze-Thaw in the Building Envelope

What is Freeze-Thaw? Have you ever noticed how potholes grow larger and more destructive after each wave of cold throughout

02/25/2022

Building Envelope Failure: 5 Hidden Signs

Is your building envelope sound? Drafts and moisture penetration can disrupt day-to-day operations especially in mission-critical facilities. But how do

01/25/2022

SMART Goals for Facility Managers

Often facilities managers will address problems as they arise, what we in the industry call, “run-to-failure” operations. But what if

12/12/2021

The 12 Days of Christmas with a Building Enclosure Consultant

Partnering with a building enclosure consultant is one of the best things you can do to maximize the efficiency of

11/22/2021

Parking Garage Cleaning: When Did You Last Wash Yours?

Parking garages need to be cleaned twice a year to maximize the structural lifetime and integrity. Two primary factors contribute

11/17/2021

Cleveland Façade Ordinance: What You Need to Know

Established in 2016, the City of Cleveland Codified Ordinance 3143.02 requires, “The owners of buildings taller than five stories and

11/14/2021

Preventative Maintenance and Autumn (Fall) Assessments

In business, a new quarter incites reflection and preparation—reflection on the past quarter and preparation for the next. It’s a

09/22/2021

Building Enclosure Commissioning: An Overview And Its Benefits

Building Enclosure Commissioning (BECx) provides data-driven, quality improvement suggestions to new construction building design, observation during construction and performance testing,

09/17/2021

7 Reasons to Hire a Building Envelope Consultant

Whether planning for new construction or trying to extend the life of an old building, there are endless considerations to

08/30/2021

Sustainable Building Envelope Asset Management

Sustainability in the simplest sense is “the ability to be maintained at a certain level.” It’s also about meeting needs

07/27/2021

Roofing Industry Suffers Material Shortage Post COVID-19 Pandemic

The economic impact that the COVID-19 pandemic has had on the US supply chain created a material shortage that is

06/22/2021

Budgeting for Facility Repairs and Replacement Projects Made Simple with ON-PNT®

Budgeting for facility asset repairs and replacement projects is the furthest thing from a simple process. With a limited budget

05/26/2021

Address Issues, Make Claims, and Get the Most Out of Your Assets with Comprehensive Warranty Management

Once a roof replacement project is complete, it’s critical that you maintain your investment to extend its service life as

04/22/2021

GIS Mapping for Better Data Visualization

ON-PNT® is a comprehensive, engineered facility condition assessment and asset management database system with GIS web and mobile mapping capabilities.

03/25/2021

The Problem with a Deferred Backlog—and How to Get Rid of It

When it comes to managing building envelope assets like your roof systems, it’s easy to fall into the trap of

02/23/2021

Sustainable Life Cycle Management and Investment: What Can This Approach Do for Your Organization?

Facility managers know all too well that managing building assets isn’t as simple as scheduling repairs when they’re needed. Effective

02/04/2021

Ice Dam Prevention for Steep-Slope Roof Systems

In the middle of winter with snow falling outside, you can’t help but notice how the snow collects on steep-slope

02/03/2021

Five Tips for Protecting Your Low-Slope Roof from Snow Damage This Winter

Winter is upon us, and so is the snow for much of the country. While kids and other winter lovers

07/04/2020

For Facility Directors Navigating Budget Uncertainties in Turbulent Times

As experts try to understand the health effects of the Coronavirus, no one can deny the hit the economy has

04/15/2019

Spring Roof Preventative Maintenance

Because it is over your head and out of sight, roof preventative maintenance (PM) can easily slip your mind. Unfortunately,

03/22/2018

4 Critical Facility Asset Management Metrics

There are four (4) major facility asset management metrics that need to be understood and managed when implementing a roof

12/13/2017

Webinar: Total Cost of Ownership

Often times, it can feel like the corporate/institutional leadership and facilities management teams within an organization are vastly disconnected. This

10/04/2017

Financial Leaders vs. Facilities Teams

It is 3.19 billion miles from Mars to Pluto, and for facility managers it often feels that far away from

10/03/2017

The Facility Relationship Cycle

The Facility Relationship Cycle is the process of communicating between facility managers and the company leaders. For facility managers, it

10/03/2017

7 Elements of a Comprehensive Roof Asset Management Plan

Often times, facility managers inherit a backlog of problems due to long-term reactive facility management and run-to-failure roof management. With

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