Historical Restoration

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Services

IRCI provides the following services for roofing, waterproofing, exterior bulding finish replacement, repair, and maintenance work for historical restoration projects:

Design and Specification

  • Develop specialty equipment and installation methods that allow original materials to be restored
  • Implement the best of current technology to enhance restoration
  • Prepare or review specifications, plans, and drawings
  • Provide plans and specifications for unique and challenging building designs

Project Administration and Coordination

  • Prepare specifications, drawings, and contracts
  • Secure bids from qualified contractors
  • Coordinate the work of design professionals and contractors
  • Perform quality assurance observations of the work in progress
  • Compile final project reports, including pertinent product data, contracts, specifications, plans and drawings, as-built drawings, observation reports and photographs, change orders, correspondence, final observations, checklists, and guarantees and warranties

Quality Assurance Observations

  • Provide one-time, part-time, or full-time daily observations during construction to ensure proper installation
  • Submit written reports with photographs as needed

Surveys, Evaluations, and Recommendations

  • Conduct visual surveys of existing materials to determine the need for maintenance, repair, or replacement. Surveys can include test cuts, core samples, material testing, digital video, digital photographs, and 35-mm photographs
  • Surveys include written reports with a description of conditions observed, evaluations, recommendations, and estimated costs for design services and construction work

Consulting

  • Answer questions and provide information concerning design, construction, and related issues
  • Provide comparative analysis of materials and systems including pertinent product data, its advantages and disadvantages, and comparative costs

Roof Management

  • Provide ongoing roof management or assist building owners/managers in developing and implementing roof management programs tailored to individual needs and resources (programs can include computer software programs, reference manuals, personnel training, periodic inspection schedules, maintenance, repair and reroofing schedules, budgeting procedures, etc.)

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Projects

Significant and unique historical restoration projects include the following:

Utah State Governor's Mansion, Salt Lake City, Utah
Roofing type: standing-seam copper panel roofing
Special features: complex, decorative cone-shaped roofs

 


Cathedral Church of St. Mark, Salt Lake City, Utah
Roofing type: natural slate





Rio Grande Railroad Station, Salt Lake City, Utah
Roofing type: clay tile
Special features: copper gutters

Union Pacific Railroad Station, Evanston, Wyoming
Roofing type: standing-seam copper panel roofing and gravel-surfaced asphalt built-up roofing
Special features: one of the few remaining roundhouses in the United States

Additional project information with photographs, client references, and contacts available on request.

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