Roof condition ratings, moisture surveys and phased work records for health systems with campuses and clinics in Kenosha, WI and northern Lake County.
A ceiling tile stained over a corridor outside an exam room starts a chain of paperwork before anyone looks at the roof. Infection control logs it. Facilities photographs it. Risk management asks how long it has been there. The roof record that answers them needs dated photographs, a mark on the plan and a rating for the section overhead, and it has to exist before the stain does.
We build those records for health systems that run hospitals, medical office buildings and clinics, where the roof is one asset among many. The format works for a campus in Kenosha, WI as well as a clinic across the Illinois line.
Water reaches patient areas along predictable paths: a roof drain beside a mechanical penthouse, a curb that carries exhaust from a procedure room, a parapet joint over a corridor. Those are the entries we inspect first on any healthcare roof. Each one is photographed, numbered and tied to the rooms below it.
A finding over a sterile processing area or an imaging suite carries more weight than the same finding over a storage room. The rating reflects that. Facilities leaders can then sort the list by consequence, not only by size, and put the sections that threaten patient areas ahead of the rest.
Penetrations deserve their own pass. Medical gas vents, lab exhaust and rooftop air handlers each add flashing to a roof that already has wall tie-ins and drains. A cracked boot on a lab exhaust curb is a small repair when it is caught on a spring walk and a large one when it is found through a ceiling.
A campus holds roofs of different ages, built at different times, often with different membranes. We rate each section separately and keep a single table for the campus. Columns cover section name, rooms below, system type, last inspection date, condition rating and open findings.
Where moisture is suspected, a moisture survey maps the wet area before anyone cuts. A core cut then confirms the insulation condition and the number of layers. The result is a roof condition report that a facilities committee can read in a sitting and a capital committee can trust.
Two hospitals serve the city: the Froedtert South campus downtown and Aurora Medical Center out at the western edge. Next door, Pleasant Prairie gained St. Catherine's Medical Center in 2002. In Lake County, Illinois, Advocate Condell Medical Center in Libertyville and Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital are listed among their cities' largest employers. A system with sites across that corridor holds buildings of different ages and exposures, which is why one common format matters.
For clinics and offices, medical office roofs follow the same table. Larger campuses use the hospital roof format, with additional lines for penthouses and connectors between wings.
In North Chicago, to the south, the Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center began operating on October 1, 2010 as a combined VA and Navy facility, with an ambulatory care center among its buildings. An owner with several buildings of different uses on one campus needs the table most.
Roofing over occupied care space needs a written plan before the first cut. It covers infection-control measures, air intake protection, noise limits, debris paths, and emergency access. The plan goes to the infection preventionist and facilities leaders for approval, and we follow it the same way every day.
Large roofs are staged by section so that open areas stay small and are made watertight before shift end. An occupied building reroofing plan lists each phase with its start and end date, so department leaders can plan around the noisiest weeks.
Noise from tear-off carries through a deck into rooms below. Where a procedure room or a sleep unit sits under the work, the plan shifts the loudest tasks to the hours the department names, and we confirm the schedule the day before. Temporary protection goes on every evening and gets photographed, so the log shows the roof was closed each night.
A roof request lands in a capital budget beside imaging equipment and clinical space, and it carries more weight when it comes with evidence. Ratings in a table, a short run of photographs showing the worst sections and a cost range with its assumptions spelled out can carry that argument in a single meeting.
Sections rated good drop to a routine inspection calendar. Sections rated fair stay on a watch list with a date. Sections rated poor go to the request. Updating the table each year lets the system show a board that roof spending followed the evidence. Systems that also oversee clinics leased from a property manager can ask for the same table from the landlord.
Winter in Kenosha brings about 36 inches of snow, and the January 7, 2008 tornadoes, which reached Somers and the north side of the city, are why wind-edge condition belongs in the record. A storm entry in the log carries the date, the observed damage and the follow-up. Facilities teams can then hand an insurer a continuous file, and insurance and restoration partners can read it without a translator.
A fall check clears drains and examines rooftop equipment curbs before freezing weather. A spring check records what winter changed. Both go in the same log.
Closing a roof project hands the system a folder of closing photographs, the as-built drawing, manufacturer sheets and the warranty file. The file lists the warranty holder's inspection requirements and the contact for claims. Facilities staff keep it with the building record, and the infection control documentation stays attached to the project folder.
The package also lists the phase dates, so the next renovation team can see which sections were opened and when.
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Phasing is standard. The scope lists each phase with its dates, work hours and protection measures. Department leaders see the schedule in writing before work begins, so clinics, procedure rooms and waiting areas can plan around the noisiest weeks.
Your infection preventionist sets them, and we write them into the work plan. Dust control, air intake protection and debris routes are followed every day, and any change goes back to the same person for approval.
A numbered photo set, a marked plan, a rating by section, the rooms below and open findings. Cost ranges are added when the system requests them for a capital request.
The table fields are the same for every building, with extra lines for penthouses and connectors on larger campuses. A system can compare any two sites on one sheet and rank them without translating formats.
We stop the water first, then document the source with photographs and a plan mark. A repair follows, and the log entry records the result so the next inspection can check it.
We use them as a starting point. Drawings often miss later additions and past recovers, so core cuts and a walk of the roof confirm what is actually there before we rate the section.
