Jennifer Porter
To RFI teams, In 2024, our admin teams found that our admin location which were two vintage homes supermodified by a reno project 15 years prior to create a connecting bridge between them with a conference room, to be showing signs of severe water intrusion from the connecting conference room area and lobby. Our building science advisor, structural engineers, RDH, discovered that based on the extent of the damage to sheathing, and framing, that it would be necessary to remove the entire roof system both north and south flat roofs and replace the structure. This original design was my no means common and already complex due the nature of connecting two vintage homes. This would need to involve building envelope as well. We partnered with RDH structural engineers and Scott Edward Architects and approached the process of planning an extensive repair. We researched over four commercial contractors both smaller and midsize when I remembered that the build community has an excellent list of service providers in MWESB Dashboard for Equity in contracting, this is where we found P&C. And our project partners R.A. Siding. R.A. works with many service providers and were referred to us by P&C. Though this project was small, it was by no means easy. Due to investigatory period including specialists from roofers to structural engineering, to environmental companies, there was quite a bit of project planning even before design was finalized. We were also extremely impressed with P&C's involvement in the investigatory meetings and design meetings, many of these meetings included the R.A. team as they needed to review several structural design changes and findings from our design team. R.A. worked in tandem with our roofer as well to ensure a seemless carry through of expert water proofing on a very intricate and complex design. It is very apparent that this team has expert understanding of building and building envelope structural processes and we were quite glad that they participated in our project.
