Airport Terminal & Aviation Facility Roofing in San Antonio, TX

Aviation roofing in San Antonio is less about the membrane and more about everything wrapped around it. A reroof at the San Antonio International Airport area, at Stinson Municipal, or on the Port San Antonio aviation campus means SIDA badging or escorts for every crew member, a FOD prevention plan the airport operations office will actually sign off on, and crane work that has to clear FAA Form 7460-1 airspace review before a boom ever goes vertical. We plan those constraints first, because they drive the schedule and the method more than the roof system does. A crew that shows up with the right membrane but no badging plan, no tool tethering protocol, and no debris containment doesn't get past the gate - and shouldn't.

The buildings themselves split into two families. Terminals, FBO lobbies, and support offices are conditioned, occupied structures - usually low-slope TPO, PVC, or modified bitumen over metal or concrete deck, with heavy rooftop mechanical, security equipment penetrations, and interiors that cannot take a drip over ticketing counters or avionics benches. Hangars are the other family: long-span steel structures, frequently 100 feet or more between supports, carrying standing-seam or through-fastened metal roofs that move with thermal cycling. At 100°F-plus for much of the summer, with panel surfaces far hotter, fastener back-out and seam fatigue on those long spans are the usual leak sources - and the fix is different for each, so we document which one we're actually seeing.

Hail is the recurring event that forces the replace-versus-repair decision here. The April-through-June convective season that works Loop 410 and US-281 doesn't spare airfields; it dents hangar panels, fractures aged mod-bit surfacing, and bruises single-ply over rigid insulation. After a storm we walk the roof, photograph and map every impact against the roof plan, and separate cosmetic denting from functional damage - because on a metal hangar roof that distinction decides whether insurance is looking at a coating scope, panel replacement, or a full tear-off. Owners who hold that documentation before the adjuster arrives negotiate from evidence. Owners who don't tend to inherit the ambiguity.