Raising the Roof

By John Hickey
West Virginia University at Parkersburg has awarded $314,000 in roofing contracts to low bidder Tri-State Roofing of Vienna to re-roof WVUP’s main campus buildings as well as the Jackson County Center, says Director of Purchasing Wayne Riley, project coordinator.

If, walking from the lower parking lot, you’ve picked up the whiff of burning tar and seen people and material on the roof of the “Banana Wing,” you know that the work is now underway. The roofing should be completed in April and there should be no disruption of campus activities, Riley says.

Tri-State Roofing says, at tri-stateservicegroup.com, that it began as a small West Virginia roofing business in 1923, when “about all you needed to be in the built-up roofing business was a wood-fired kettle, a few wheelbarrows, a truck and a rope and wheel.” They have more than a few wheelbarrows now; the company now boasts twelve locations covering the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic states, and an expertise in sophisticated heating, ventilation, and sheet-metal services, as well as in roofing.