- Author
- Rossiter, W. J., Jr. | Cullen, W. C. | Mathey, R. G.
- Title
- Recommended Practices for U.S. Postal Service Roofing Program.
- Coporate
- National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD William C. Cullen Associates, Potomac, MD
- Sponsor
- Postal Service, Washington, DC
- Report
- NBSIR 85-3279, January 1986, 52 p.
- Distribution
- Available from National Technical Information Service
- Keywords
- roofs | construction | design | low sloped roofing | maintenance | management | performance | recommendations | repair
- Abstract
- This study was conducted for the United States Postal Service (USPS) to provide technical recommendations to improve the quality of its low-sloped roofing. Two major tasks were carried out: 1) a review of current USPS roofing practices, and 2) a review of roof management programs used by other organizations in the public and private sectors. A comparison of USPS practices with the elements of effective roof management programs provided the basis for recommendations to USPS. This report presents the final results of the study including the trends in current USPS roofing practices and the recommendations to the USPS. Three options which USPS may take as steps to improve its roofing are suggested. The first option is to develop a total roof management program. The second option is to adopt some pertinent practices which are included in effective roof managment programs. The third option is to take some smaller steps from a list of items for reducing the limitations identified in current USPS practices. A benefit to NBS in obtaining the information gathered in the study was the identification of measurement research needs related to improved roofing performance, particularly for organizations having large inventories of buildings.