Building Envelope Repair and Restoration

Credo Construction specializes in building envelope repair and restoration. When a repair, upgrade, or improvement project is required, Credo Construction can provide the right solutions for your project.

From building facades to interior replacement, we offer industry leading experience and expertise to ensure that the project is completed promptly, safely, and on-budget. Repair work is typically performed on or in occupied structures. Executing repairs under these conditions means the contractor must meet the owner’s need to ensure ongoing facility operation with little disruption to tenants and occupants.

Our project managers and field personnel carefully plan each project, addressing the details of scheduling, hours of operation, safety, traffic control, noise, and dust control.

Building envelopes in the Pacific Northwest require extra attention to detail. Our wet coastal climate creates the need for superior building envelope systems and installation methods. Credo Construction can provide the most advanced waterproofing and flashing techniques available and takes great measures to prevent and restore the damage caused by water intrusion.

Our building envelope repairs services include:

  • Complete Demolition and Restoration
  • Siding Replacement
  • Water/Rain Management Systems
  • Structural Correction (Walls and Sheathing)
  • Window and Door Replacement
  • Roofing / Deck Systems

Contact us today if you have signs of water intrusion, damage or just want an updated look.

What is building envelope?

A building envelope is the separation between the interior and the exterior environments of a building. It serves as the outer shell to protect the indoor environment as well as to facilitate its climate control. Building envelope design is a specialized area of architectural and engineering practice that draws from all areas of building science and indoor climate control.

Building envelope design includes four major performance objectives:

  • Structural integrity
  • Moisture control
  • Temperature control
  • Control of air pressure boundaries of sorts

Control of air includes air movement through the components of the building envelope (interstitial) itself, as well as into and out of the interior space, which affects building insulation greatly.

The physical components of the envelope include the foundation, roof, walls, doors and windows. The dimensions, performance and compatibility of materials, fabrication process and details, their connections and interactions are the main factors that determine the effectiveness and durability of the building enclosure system.

Common measures of the effectiveness of a building envelope include physical protection from weather and climate (comfort), indoor air quality (hygiene and public health), durability and energy efficiency. In order to achieve these objectives, all building enclosure systems must include a solid structure, a drainage plane, an air barrier, a thermal barrier, and may include a vapor barrier. Moisture control is essential in cold climates.

Credo Construction has worked closely with Homeowner Associations, Condominium Associations, Property Managers, Apartment Owners, Attorneys, and Building Envelope Engineers on construction defect projects. We have developed a tried and true approach to identifying the root problem of building envelope repair projects: water intrusion, fixing the problem with the best systems and practices in the industry, and communicating with all the parties and involved.

Repair FAQ’s

Credo Construction has a great track record and has completed many building envelope repair projects. We have great people with good attitudes. We work closely with our subcontractors to get their very best work. We have an extensive knowledge of the products and systems that we work with. If we don’t know a system, we research it.

We have a “Zero” claim track record since our inception in 2004. That means no insurance claims, and no lawsuits. We did not achieve this by accident.

We have many long-term employees who are cross-trained to many of the tasks required for building envelope repair and restoration. Carpentry and framing repair is always carried out by our regular employees. We perform the most difficult transitions with our regular employees. Interior restorations are generally performed in-house as well.

It is easy to guarantee our work. It is difficult to guarantee a repair to someone else’s work. If we repair a leaking window on the third floor of a six story building we can not guaranty that water will not enter from upper levels. It is easy to guarantee a wall that we address in entirety from corner to corner, top to bottom. We make it a point to identify the potential for other problems should we be doing a limited repair. We have turned down projects in the past when we were uncomfortable with risk of water entry from adjacent areas.

Check out our client testimonials and our letters of reference. If you need more, we will gladly provide a contact information list of all major projects that we have performed, just give us a call.

We have ongoing and completed projects. You are welcome to make an appointment to visit ongoing work. We will have a hard hat for you. We can arrange for you to visit completed projects. Our projects page should also provide some background.

Contract communications are generally limited to the owner’s representatives such as property managers, consultants or the Board of Directors. It is not unusual for a curious unit owner or tenant to ask contractor personnel questions that should be directed to the owner’s representative. Our folks are trained to politely defer such questions to the appropriate parties. At the beginning of the project we will distribute a letter letting tenants know who we are and when will be working on their building. We provide contact information so that any problems can be handled promptly.