Western Specialty Contractors Installs Roof Expansion for EV Manufacturer
The $30M project in Normal, Ill., encompassed 500K square feet for Rivian expansion
Western Specialty Contractors’ Peoria, Ill., branch recently completed the roof on a 500,000-square-foot, $30 million warehouse expansion in Normal, Ill., for the electric vehicle manufacturer Rivian. The addition doubles the size of the existing facility.
Western, which is based in St. Louis and has 30 branch offices nationwide, says its craftsmen installed a mechanically fastened TPO membrane roof with R-30 minimum insulation, tapered insulation crickets, perimeter coping caps and expansion joints. The lightweight, flexible TPO roof provides a reliable, economical and energy-efficient solution for a job of this magnitude, the company added.