One Boca Place

One Boca Place is a high profile office building located on Glades Road in Boca Raton, Florida. This very complex building had 88,400 square feet of roofing area to be removed and replaced over a period of twelve weeks. The peculiar, wave-like shape of the building required Advanced Roofing team members to pay special attention to logistics and equipment set-up plans.
 
The intriguing shape of the building was not the only complication associated with this particular job. The only access to the roof was behind the building on a one way private road. Since the job required the use of a foam rig and a vacuum, the street had to be closed off to traffic. Foreman Jorge Martinez and crew worked from the west side of the building to the east side, in three different sections, forcing them to relocate all of the equipment each time a new section was started. Another difficulty was attempting to prevent the noise caused by the removal of the existing roof by the vacuum. It was requested that the roofing crews work at night from 7:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. as to not disturb the tenants of the office building.
 
Project Manager Leo Rossi worked with consultant Babu Varghese from Abtech Engineering to develop the best plan of action to complete this complicated, multi-faceted roofing job. The existing roofing system consisted of egg river rocks over an insulation board over a grace ice and water shield underlayment. All of these components were removed and the egg river rocks were conserved, recycled and used for landscaping . The new roofing consisted of fully adhered reflective Carlisle single ply roofing membrane, which required the use of the foam rig to spray adhesive.
 
Due to the use of a reflective roofing system and the recycled egg river rocks, the owner of One Boca Place gained L.E.E.D. (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) points and was eligible to receive approximately $40,000 in rebates from Florida Power & Light. Construction Managers David Fuentes and Mike Stevens assisted Project Manager Leo Rossi in ensuring this job was completed with out a hitch in spite of the many obstacles they faced. All in all, the property manager, CB Richard Ellis, was very satisfied with the new environmentally friendly roofing system.