Commercial roofing for Houston office complexes, business parks, and multi-tenant buildings. Reflective low-slope systems and re-roofing over occupied, tenanted space.

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• Roofing the buildings people actually work in
• An office roof carries a different kind of pressure than a warehouse roof. There are tenants under it during business hours, expensive interior finishes a leak will ruin, and a landlord or building owner whose phone rings the moment a ceiling tile turns brown over someone's desk. We roof office complexes, suburban business parks, multi-tenant flex buildings, corporate campuses, and mid- and high-rise office towers across the Houston metro, and we plan every one of them around the fact that the building is full of people and equipment that cannot be disrupted.
• Houston has one of the largest office inventories in the country, and it is spread across distinct submarkets that each bring their own roof situations. The Energy Corridor and Westchase are dense with low- and mid-rise corporate buildings serving the energy industry. The Galleria and Uptown stack tall towers next to sprawling adjacent parking and retail. Downtown carries the high-rise core, while the suburban rings along the Sam Houston Tollway and out toward The Woodlands and Sugar Land are full of multi-tenant office parks on flat, low-slope decks. The common thread is large reflective roof areas sitting over occupied, finished space with no appetite for interruption.
• What an office roof has to deliver
• The first job is simply keeping water out of finished interiors. Drop ceilings, drywall, carpet, conference-room AV, and the IT closets that run a tenant's business are all directly below the roof, and the cost of water damage to those finishes and to a tenant's operations can exceed the cost of the roof work itself. Above that baseline, an office roof has to manage a busy rooftop of mechanical equipment, control the building's energy use, and look presentable from the windows of any taller building next door, which in the Galleria or downtown is a real consideration.
• Office rooftops are crowded. Packaged HVAC units serving each tenant suite, makeup-air units, exhaust fans, condenser banks, conduit, gas lines, and on larger buildings screened equipment yards all break the roof plane. Every one of those is a penetration, a flashing detail, and a potential leak path over a paying tenant. We treat the curbs, supports, and penetrations as the part of the roof most likely to fail and detail them accordingly.
• Conditions that shape the design in Houston
• Cooling load dominates an office building's energy bill for most of the year here, and the roof is a major lever on it. A dark, heat-absorbing membrane pushes thermal load straight into the top floor and onto the rooftop HVAC units that serve it, while a reflective white surface drops the rooftop temperature sharply and trims the cooling demand the building fights through every long Gulf Coast summer. For an owner watching operating costs across a multi-building portfolio, that reflectivity is a permanent line-item savings, not a one-time benefit.
• Then there is the weather that defines the region. Hurricane-season wind attacks the edges and corners of large office roofs and the equipment sitting on them. The large hail Harris County sees bruises and splits membranes. And the extraordinary rainfall behind the Harvey flooding overwhelms any roof whose drainage was sized for an easier climate. We detail edge metal, fastening, and uplift resistance for the wind, specify membranes and thicknesses that survive hail, and engineer drainage, drains, scuppers, overflows, and tapered insulation, to move heavy rain off the roof before it ponds over occupied space below.