Comprehensive service:
Tremco Roofing and Building Maintenance delivers on all counts By Melanie Franner
What began in 1928 as a small roofing-
“Tremco’s Roofing and Building Main-
cals, while the latter is focused solely on
materials manufacturing plant in Cleve-
tenance division offers a breadth of roof-
providing specialized management pro-
land, Ohio, has grown into a diversified
ing and building envelope, general con-
grams for roofing assets, such as:
North American company with special-
tracting and service solutions designed
• Roof Condition Assessment Survey;
ized divisions to service all types of cus-
to meet the most critical facility man-
• Infrared Scanning – Thermocore;
tomers and their varied roofing needs.
agement and financial needs of owners,
• Preventive Maintenance and House-
Today, the company employs more than
managers and architects alike,” explains
460 people in Canada, with 150 of them
Mike Vercammen, western regional man-
being dedicated to the company’s roof-
ager. “From roofing system replacement
ing division alone.
to comprehensive facility-asset manage-
• Emergency Leak Response;
ment, Tremco is uniquely qualified with
• Web-Based Roof Management;
leading products and services to deliver
• Canam Building Envelope Services;
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solutions across North America.”
keeping Program; • Leak
Investigation
and
Remedial
Maintenance;
and
Having maintained a strong presence
• SkyBEAM (this service, introduced
in Canada since 1929, Tremco is in the
in Canada just this year, is a ground-
enviable position of having established
breaking program that uses small, un-
one of the largest networks of highly
manned aerial vehicles equipped with
trained, company-employed field advi-
high-resolution thermographic and
sors. The company’s Roof and Building
video cameras to help customers lo-
Maintenance Division boats 42 expe-
cate areas of wet insulation in the roof
rienced field advisors and 31 technical
system and where their facilities may
representatives across the country. It
be leaking energy through gaps in the
also has divisional offices/manufacturing
roof, walls and windows).
facilities in Toronto and Montreal, with a
“As a conscientious building man-
field office in Waterloo.
ager, it is an economic imperative to secure maximum value for each and ev-
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Keep it in the Family
ery investment related to your building
The Tremco Roofing and Building
asset,” states Vercammen. “In roofing,
Maintenance Division draws on the
this can be a very confusing undertak-
strength of both its parent company,
ing, with countless system and consult-
RPM, Inc., and its service division, Weath-
ing alternatives. Your best option is not
erproofing Technologies Canada (WTC).
found in price, or in which manufactur-
The former is a multi-national holding
er possesses material with the lowest
company with subsidiaries that manu-
melt-point or membrane-recovery after
facture and market high-performance
elongation. In our competitive market-
coatings, sealants and specialty chemi-
place, there is often little to distinguish
