Sikalastic RoofPro Tops Four Seasons Resort Post-Hurricane Irma

By Sika.  

How Sikalastic allowed this resort to welcome back guests in just four months after the damage of Hurricane Irma.  

Hurricane Irma tore through the small, 15,000 population Caribbean Island of Anguilla in 2017, wreaking havoc with sustained winds of 185 mph. The Category 5 hurricane ripped the roofs off buildings and devastated the east end of the island. Yet, only half a year later, the Four Seasons Resort was welcoming guests back to their property thanks to Sika products.  

It took just four months for one U.S.-based roofing contractor and one U.K.-based roofing contractor working simultaneously to replace the failed EPDM and tapered insulation roof assembly with 330,000 square feet of Sikalastic RoofPro liquid-applied membrane on the property’s 54 buildings.  

What made this accomplishment even more remarkable was that Four Seasons management felt that glued, tapered insulation would once again be vulnerable to wind uplift forces in hurricane conditions and therefore decided not to replace the failed tapered insulation but instead decided to have the contractors slope the roofs with SikaQuick 1000. 

Project solution 

To create adequate slope on the flat roofs, the two contractors placed 65,000 bags (3.25 million pounds) of SikaQuick 1000 after which 16,000 gallons of Sikalastic 621 along with primer and Reemat reinforcement were applied on top of the sloped SikaQuick 1000. 

The rapid-setting properties of SikaQuick 1000 allowed the contractors to apply the RoofPro membrane as soon as the next day. In the end, about 75 truckloads of SikaQuick 1000 were shipped from Conyers, Georgia and nine truckloads of RoofPro materials were shipped from Marion, Ohio.  

During a critical path portion of the project schedule at the start of the project in November/December 2017, 10 full truckloads of SikaQuick 1000 from Conyers and one full truckload of RoofPro materials from Marion, had to be produced and shipped each week for six weeks straight. Sika Operations in both Conyers and Marion rose to the challenge and met all  the Four Seasons shipping deadlines. 

Because of the tremendous success of the RoofPro work at the Four Seasons Resort, another ultra-luxury resort on Anguilla also decided to replace their failed roofs with Sikalastic RoofPro.  The Cuisinart Resort, which is only a few miles from the Four Seasons Resort, also applied RoofPro membrane on 200,000 square feet of roof. 

Products used 

SikaQuick®-1000 

Rapid hardening repair mortar with extended working time 

• Specially suited for warmer weather applications when extended working time is required 

• Epoxy coatings can be applied as early as 6 hours at 73° F (23° C). 

• Freeze / thaw resistant 

Sikalastic®-621 TC 

Single component saturating and top-coat resin for Sikalastic® RoofPro roofing systems 

• Proven technology - over 30-year track record 

• One component – no mixing, easy and ready to use 

• UV resistant - Highly reflective (RAL9016) and resistant to yellowing 

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Original article source: Sika