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Standard Commercial Roofing & Envelope Solutions Receives Carlisle’s 2025 SynTec Systems Perfection Award

Standard Commercial Roofing & Envelope Solutions has been honored with Carlisle's SynTec Systems prestigious 2025 Perfection Award, a recognition reserved for the top-tier applicators in North America whose workmanship and installation quality place them among the industry’s elite.

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Confirm Bidder’s Certifications

Verifying contractor certifications is a simple but crucial step in ensuring high-quality roof installations. By requiring a pre-qualification checklist and a certification letter from the roofing system manufacturer, designers can avoid unqualified bidders and protect both project integrity and warranty coverage.

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Protect Your Customer’s Interests

In roofing, timing is everything—especially in summer. Unpredictable weather can lead to catastrophic interior damage if precautions aren’t taken. Learn why smart contractors limit daily tear-offs and how weather awareness protects more than just structures.

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Let Us Look Before You Leak

Whatever roof system your operation is under, whatever exterior and interior wall conditions your co-workers are working within, whatever window and door envelope penetrations are providing light and access, and whatever foundation is supporting your facility, the building that you have been charged with maintaining deserves (and its owners and inhabitants will greatly appreciate) a little TLC.

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After the Storm has Passed

Checking your building’s envelope—roof, exterior walls, doors, and windows—for moisture infiltration from damage as soon as possible after weather events will help to prevent further infiltration and longer-term issues.

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Proper Estimating is Critical

Proper estimating is key to a successful client experience. In Part One of this Customer Focused Success series, we look at how takeoffs, or the process of determining and then estimating the costs for the materials that are needed for a job, are a critical element of the estimating process. We also provide a few contingency examples to consider as part of the takeoff process as well as alternate material options to consider related to cost and availability.

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Selecting a Roof System: The Case for TPO

There are no “one type fits all” roof systems. So, when faced with a new construction project or re-roofing an existing facility, owners should be fully informed as to the type of roof system best suited for the scope of work. Along with a pre-bid evaluation, the selection of the proper roof system is one of the most important steps owners can take to help avoid future, long-term problems. Here, we explore the TPO roof system and discuss when it's the best option for your re-roofing project.

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Estimating Complicated and Challenging Projects - Complicated and Challenging Part 1

While putting together project takeoffs provides the material cost for a project estimate, taking the extra time to really understand the specific labor requirements, project supervision requirements, and the physical environment of the project are all factors that require extra time, experience, and often collaboration to be properly estimated.

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The Importance of Pacing Your Work

Each stage of any large construction project involves many steps. Properly executing the steps within each stage at a safe and deliberate pace and performing them in a specific order is critical to the long-term success of that project. While it certainly takes experience to perform all of the steps in each of these stages properly, the more important factor to understand for building owners is that each of the steps within each stage takes time to perform safely and correctly.

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Why Selective Bidding Pays Off.

Establishing a set of criteria to evaluate construction bidding opportunities will lead to matching the best contractor with the best projects. And this process will lead to the long-term success of the contractor and positive project outcomes for the building owner.

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