Medical office buildings around Evansville, from single-tenant clinics to larger multi-specialty campuses near the hospital systems, run tighter tolerances than a typical office roof. Diagnostic equipment and exam schedules don't leave much room for surprises.
A medical office building's roof is usually a fraction of the size of a hospital campus roof, but the sensitivity underneath can be nearly as high. Imaging equipment, lab space, and exam rooms all sit under a membrane that has to perform without the redundant mechanical backup a hospital campus often has. We treat these roofs with the same attention to detail as a larger hospital job, just scaled to a smaller building.
Many of the MOBs in this market were built as single-tenant clinics and later expanded with additions tied into the original roofline. Those tie-in points, where an addition's roof meets the original structure, are where we find the most flashing issues on inspections. A practice that has grown through two or three expansions over the years often has a roof history nobody on staff remembers clearly, which is part of why we start every MOB job with a full survey rather than trusting old paperwork.
Unlike a general office building where a noisy roof repair mostly means an annoyed tenant, a clinic running patient appointments underneath needs quiet during exam and procedure times. We coordinate work hours directly with practice managers, and for anything involving demo or heavy foot traffic, we'll often shift to early morning before patients arrive or stage work around a practice's slower days.
For clinics with imaging equipment like MRI or CT, we double check rooftop equipment locations relative to the imaging suite below before any work starts, since some equipment is sensitive to vibration in ways a standard exam room isn't.
New MOB construction and full re-roofs in this market mostly go TPO for the same reasons it works well on any low-slope commercial building: reliable seams, good reflectivity, straightforward repair. For an older MOB roof that's still structurally sound but showing wear, a silicone coating is often the more practical option for a practice owner trying to avoid a capital expense that competes with equipment purchases or a buildout.
We'll give a straight answer on which option makes sense for a given building's age and condition rather than defaulting to whichever job pays more. A practice owner deciding between a coating and a full re-roof needs that number to be honest, and we'd rather lose a bigger job to an honest recommendation than win one on a number that doesn't hold up.
A single-story clinic building with one practice and a straightforward roof plan is a different job than a multi-tenant medical office campus with several practices, a shared central plant, and a more complex rooftop layout. We scope these differently from the start, since a multi-tenant campus needs the same lease-based coordination we'd use on any flex property, while a single practice building is a more straightforward conversation directly with the owner.
Where a medical campus shares a central mechanical plant across multiple buildings, we coordinate roof work with whichever engineering or facilities contact manages that shared system, since a roof penetration on one building can sometimes tie into infrastructure serving a building next door.
Many medical office buildings in this market include a covered patient drop-off or a parking canopy structure separate from the main building roof, often built at a different time with a different system. We evaluate those canopy roofs on their own condition rather than assuming they match the main building's age or material.
A leaking drop-off canopy creates an immediate patient experience problem, not only a maintenance one, since it's often the first thing a patient sees arriving at the building. We prioritize canopy repairs accordingly when a practice flags one as urgent.
Yes, we schedule around your practice's appointment calendar and can shift noisy work to early morning or slower days if that works better for your patients.
We check rooftop equipment locations against your imaging suite layout before starting any work near it, since certain diagnostic equipment is sensitive to vibration.
We inspect the tie-in point between the original roof and any addition separately, since that transition is the most common source of leaks on expanded clinic buildings.
It depends on the substrate condition underneath. We'll core-cut a test spot to check for trapped moisture before recommending either option.
Yes. The building is smaller but the equipment and patient care underneath deserve the same level of attention.