As a building owner or facilities manager, you’re not just maintaining a roof. You’re protecting people, operations, and long-term investments.
Through proactive maintenance programs, unbiased condition assessments, and technologies like thermal imaging, you gain the insights needed to catch issues early, extend roof life, and plan capital expenses wisely.
You lead with foresight—we support with clarity.
Together, we keep your roof (and your business) ready for strategic, proactive planning.
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New roofs are designed and installed to last you their sold and warranted lifetime, often 20, 25, or 30 years. Now, in order to see that life out of your roof assembly, you have to be proactive and take care of that roof system. Statistically, for TPO roofs like the one we’re standing on, if you leave them unmaintained or poorly maintained, they statistically will only last 12 years on average.
By implementing a proactive maintenance program and actually doing what you need to to take care of it and be ready when signs show that it’s time to take the next step, you can not only meet the sold and warranted lifetime of the roof, but you also have the potential to extend the serviceable life of that roof. Structura View is often involved in the ongoing and proactive maintenance process, and we typically partner with a roofing contractor. Where we provide value is coming in with an unbiased perspective.
We represent the ownership team in this case and our goal is to help you keep up with and understand conditions and try our best to catch problems before they become catastrophic failures. Implementing a proactive program in addition to a reactive approach to fixing problems that we know exist will help you with extending the serviceable lifetime of that roof and being financially prepared for whenever you hit those aging markers on the roof and being able to have the capital ready to go to take care of whatever it is financially needs to be done on the roof to see it through its sold and warranted lifetime.
So, when we’re performing a proactive maintenance inspection on our roof, step one is to provide a visual condition assessment of the condition of literally what you can see on the roof. Step two, based on that and the known age of the roof assembly, we will typically recommend further testing. At a minimum, something that can be deployed at a very affordable and cost-effective rate is utilizing thermal imaging. When you’re doing a visual condition assessment, you’re not always able to study every square inch of the roof. So to supplement that, we often recommend deploying thermal imaging to help study and look for suspected moisture or possible areas where there could be an opening and you might have a little bit of moisture in the roof.
From there, depending on what we see, we may recommend further testing methods. Once we understand conditions, where you are in the aging cycle, then we continue to update you. You know, we were planning on this capital call for doing this maintenance on the roof at the 15-year mark, but it looks like your roof is aging a little bit quicker, and we might need to call that capital Ford at the 12-ear mark instead of the 15-ear mark by studying the roof continually up to that point.
Related: Moisture Surveys and Mapping
