Building Managers

Building managers -- working internally or as a service provider to building owners – are faced with the task of tracking hundreds of unique commercial roofing systems. The roof’s physical materials, attachment method, insulation performance, leak history, documented problems, warranty coverage and predicted failure are all important factors that must be tracked due to the roles they play in the allocation of resources to extend the life cycle of the roof.

Today, organizations are preparing to manage their major capital investments by storing valuable information at the time a new roof is commissioned to track initial roofing warranties, and then to allocate repair dollars over the life of the roof until a replacement is required. Unfortunately, many organizations fail to maintain even basic historical information making warranty compliance difficult to manage and missing opportunities to correct small problems that will lower their roofing life cycle costs.

Fortunately, there is an easy and efficient way to keep track of all the different factors involved in managing a roof. By investing only a small percentage of their annual roofing expense into a centralized roofing database, building owners can track roofing warranty compliance, ensure inspections and maintenance are done as scheduled, improve communication with roofing services providers, and distribute annual capital spending where the highest return is possible to improve the overall performance of their roofing inventory.