How Campus Roofs Differ
Campus buildings add wings in stages. Each wing arrives with its own roof, its own age and its own details. The joints between sections move more than the field and fail first. Mechanical rooms and labs add rooftop equipment that needs frequent service, and technicians wear paths into the membrane.
The calendar governs the work. Large reroofs fit summer and term breaks. Small repairs can run during classes, with staging kept away from entrances, walkways and lecture-hall exits. Bobcat Stadium was expanded to seat 30,000, a reminder that campus facilities hold large public assembly spaces whose roofs need coordination with event schedules.
Our college and university roofing work starts with a map of every roof section, each with its own age and system. The map keeps one wing's repair from being applied to another wing that needs something different.
Drainage across a campus roof needs steady attention. Leaves from mature trees collect at drains and scuppers, and a hilly site pushes water toward the low corners of buildings. We clear and photograph every outlet at each visit, and we log any pond that persists two days after rain.
Roof drains on a hilly site collect runoff-borne grit, so the sumps get checked for sediment as well as leaves, and strainers are reseated after every cleaning. A clogged sump is easy to miss from the ladder and obvious in a photograph taken at the bowl.
