Regeneration, Repair and Maintenance Roofing for Occupied Homes

Globe Roofing re-roofs, repairs and maintains occupied homes for housing associations, local authorities and the principal contractors who deliver their regeneration and maintenance programmes. We work directly for housing providers and as the roofing partner within a principal contractor's supply chain, from our base at Highfields Farm, Fulbourn, near Cambridge, across the East of England and the Midlands.

This division sits alongside our new build development roofing work, but it is a different discipline. On a new build plot the roof goes onto an empty structure. On a regeneration scheme residents are living underneath the work, the programme has to respect that, and the asset manager needs a record of what was done at every address.

Working on occupied properties

An occupied home cannot simply be stripped and left. We phase the stripping so that each property is kept weathertight as the work moves across the roof, and we only open up what can be protected again before the gang stops. When conditions turn, work stops until it is safe to continue and the roof is secured. Sites are kept tidy and considerate, because the scaffold, the skip and the materials drop are all outside someone's front door.

Social housing stock was built across different decades using different methods: traditional cut timber roofs, trussed rafter systems, flat roof sections and mixed pitched and flat configurations. Pre-work surveys confirm the existing construction and flag structural issues before the new covering goes on, so the specification reflects the property rather than one approach applied across the stock. Our social housing re-roofing page sets out how phasing, weather constraints and decant avoidance are handled.

Resident liaison

Residents need to know when work is taking place, what access will be needed and who to contact with a concern. We work within the housing provider's own resident communication framework, giving programme information in advance, managing access to keep disruption down and keeping the housing management team informed throughout. A roofing contractor who does not understand a landlord's resident engagement obligations creates a reputational risk for that landlord, so we treat liaison as part of the roofing package.

Planned versus reactive

Housing providers that deal with roofs only as failures are reported typically spend more per roof than those who plan replacement from condition data. Our stock condition surveys record roof condition and remaining serviceable life, so the highest-risk properties can be prioritised. Planned maintenance programmes then schedule gangs by area and give the client cost certainty across a batch of properties or a multi-year programme. Where existing roofs need more than like-for-like replacement, roof refurbishment and upgrades cover thermal upgrade and regeneration work on existing stock, and our flat roofing service covers low-rise blocks, communal areas and walkways.

Reactive work keeps stock watertight between programmes. Roof repairs are handled by teams who are often already working in the area, and emergency roofing response provides out-of-hours attendance, make-safe and temporary weatherproofing, with response times agreed with the client. Because reports are triaged, a defect that is not a true emergency can be held for a programmed visit rather than paid for as a call-out.

Principal contractor frameworks

Much regeneration and maintenance work is let through principal contractors on longer-term contracts. We fit into that model as a roofing partner that brings its own compliance paperwork: CSCS-carded operatives with site-specific inductions, competence documentation that supports the principal contractor's duties under CDM 2015, and commercial terms that hold across the programme rather than being renegotiated for each instruction. Globe Roofing holds ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 45001 certification alongside CHAS and SMAS Worksafe, which shortens pre-qualification. The detail is on our accreditations page.

Evidence for asset managers

Every property is documented as it is completed, so the client has a clear record of what was done and where. Survey findings give the landlord an updated condition baseline for each home treated, and reactive visits are reported with timed entries, scope, any containment applied and photographs at start and completion, in the format the provider's own maintenance management system needs.

One group on the scheme

Re-roofing a run of occupied homes depends on scaffold designed for the roofing work and inspected throughout. As part of the Globe Group we can bring Globe Cambridge scaffolding and Red Safety Netting fall protection to the same scheme, coordinated under one group, which simplifies the supply chain on a regeneration contract. You can see examples of delivered schemes on our projects page.

Planning a re-roofing, planned maintenance or reactive repairs contract? Contact the Globe Roofing team, email enquiries@theglobegroup.co.uk or call 01223 890727.