Commercial Solar Roof Integration

Service for Columbus commercial properties

Commercial Solar Roof Integration

Adding rooftop photovoltaics to a commercial building is two trades sharing one assembly, and the roof always loses the argument when the coordination is sloppy. We work with Columbus property owners, facility managers, and the solar EPCs they hire to make sure the array and the membrane behave as one system. A flat or low-slope roof over a warehouse off the I-270 outerbelt, a flex building in the New Albany International Business Park, or a retail box near Polaris is a different conversation than a residential pitched roof, and the people racking the panels are not always the people who will answer for a leak three winters later. Our job is to make sure that answer never has to be given.

We get called for this work in two situations. The first is before the array goes up, when an owner wants the roof evaluated, prepped, or reroofed so it can carry solar for the next twenty-plus years. The second is after the fact, when an installer has already drilled into a roof we did not touch and the building is now leaking around stanchions. Both are fixable. The first is simply cheaper and far less aggravating.