by Conach Marketing GroupRoof Asset Management for Forecasting Future Needs
For building owners and facility managers, a roofing system is more than just a critical building asset – it’s also a potential financial liability. Too often small concerns like minor leaks or damaged shingles go neglected for too long, leading to exacerbated issues like major repairs or replacements that come with hefty price tags. Comprehensive roof asset management is a crucial strategy for mitigating these costly consequences and ensuring you get the most out of your roof’s service life.
Rather than viewing each individual issue or concern within a roofing system as isolated events, roof asset management considers the system’s overall health, consistently monitoring for symptoms of disrepair or deterioration. This real-time tracking and assessing helps to identify minor concerns, create a plan to swiftly rectify them, and budget in advance for future roofing system needs.
Building Technology Associates’ (BTA) premier roof asset management software helps streamline this entire process into simple action items easily identifiable for building owners. Information, measurements, or specifications from on-site inspections are uploaded into the system, and individual sections of the roof are assessed and scored by urgency to prioritize areas in most need of maintenance.
Additionally, this technology contains built-in forecasting tools that take into account material selection, installation or repair dates, maintenance history, and more to predict when adjustments or restorations may be necessary, as well as projected costs to complete needed fixes. While every building is different, and comes with varying budget needs, being able to plan proactively rather than reactively for upcoming costs is a net positive.
By investing in comprehensive roof asset management services through BTA, facility managers or owners have informed insight over not just problem areas on their roof, but also the overall condition of the entire system. Having dates, deadlines, costs, histories, and documentations all consolidated into a centralized system offers strategic oversight over all the interworking components of your roofing system, leading to more strategic and cost-effective decision-making for your long-term success.