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Insights from the Roof Up
Explore expert advice, maintenance tips, and the latest industry trends to keep your building protected and performing its best.
How Much is Your Roof Really Costing You?
When shopping for a new roof, buyers primarily consider the upfront price tag, which often means choosing the lowest quote. Sadly, not all roofers perform the same quality of work and not all manufacturers provide the same quality of products. The end result is that...
Are Roof Warranties Warranted?
The extended manufacturers’ roof warranty programs being sold to building owners today have clearly become an issue. As competition has gotten keener among manufacturers and generic systems, the manufacturers have yielded to these pressures by lowering their prices...
RoofSMART – The Future of Leak Management
If you’re a School Administrator, then you know how important it is to keep all of your facilities functional and safe. But—all too often—severe weather gets in the way, causing leakage, which compromises your facilities. When damage happens to buildings, school...
Changing the Broken Public Work(s) RFP Model
Every year, public school corporations in Indiana spend around $35 to $45 million to remediate the defective waterproofing integrity of their facilities. This startling number is needlessly wasted; there is a better way. By implementing roof asset management...
Get What You INSPECT, Not What you EXPECT
Why Quality Assurance Inspection is so Crucial to Getting the Roof You Specified After serving almost 3 decades in the roofing industry, I am still amazed at the number of building owners, architects and developers who still have not learned their lesson regarding the...
Questions Every Facility Manager Needs to Answer
Superintendents of schools, property managers, and facility managers carry a big responsibility in overseeing their facility’s roofing. As such, it’s important for them to know details about their properties—or at least have access to answers quickly. Yet oftentimes,...
How to Get the Most Out of Your Roofing System
As a property manager, business manager, facilities manager, or Superintendent of Schools, you want to spend your money wisely as you manage your facilities. Naturally, you want to achieve maximum service life, at the least possible cost. When it comes to commercial...
Surveying the Sky: How Moisture Management Uses Drones for Inspections
A DJI Phantom 3 Drone Moisture Management has a certified Part 107 UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) drone pilot on staff that can safely and legally use our drone to conduct site surveys, investigate hard-to-reach areas of buildings, and quickly take roof measurements....
The Critical Need for Waterproofing Project Oversight
When building owners and managers deal with leaks into their interior spaces, the roof usually comes to mind first as the likely cause. However, building leaks can come from many parts of the “building envelope”, which Moisture Management defines as the combination of...
What’s Next for Houston After Hurricane Harvey?
The unprecedented “500-year storm” along the Texas gulf and the Houston area from Hurricane Harvey has produced heartbreaking images of damage and loss, along with images of great courage and bravery as volunteers and first-responders work heroically to save lives...
Become a Profit Making Facility Manager vs. a Profit Spending Manager
In the competitive business world we live in, those who make the money for a company are given a higher value than those who don’t. For Facilities Managers this creates a real dilemma. Most everything they are tasked to do requires the spending of the company’s...
Why You Should Use a Roof Consulting Firm to Assist You With Re-Roofing Projects
here are many reasons why using a roof consulting firm to assist facility managers during the re-roofing process makes good sense. The major benefits are: Receiving a better roofing system Lower costs for professional services, materials, and labor Receiving a better...
Risk Mitigation in Roofing
After almost 3 decades of service in the roofing industry, it is quite apparent that our industry has not done a very good job explaining the risks and liabilities of having a dysfunctional roofing system on a business or school building. Facility managers, property...
The Effect of Winter on Your Roofing Assets
The Effect of Indiana Winters on Your Roofing Assets The unpredictable, yet often harsh, Indiana winters can have several negative effects on low-slope roofing systems. In this article, we will discuss some of the major effects winter has on your roofs and offer some...
Scan Your Roof Before You Replace It!
Imagine the following scenario: Your child is feeling a little under the weather and you finally make an appointment to go see your family doctor. The doctor does a cursory examination, and decides that he/she needs surgery immediately. Wouldn’t you ask for a more...
You Are Probably in Violation of Your Warranty, If…
This article is directed to all building owners, property managers, design professionals, and facilities maintenance managers who have purchased warranties on commercial or industrial buildings in the U.S. within the past twenty years. Whether you realize it or not,...