New business leads for commercial roofers in Portland & Vancouver, WA

Every new commercial building needs a roof, and the roofing subcontract is awarded while the structure is still on paper. A new-building permit means a shell going up with a roof to install; a pre-application conference is the earliest public trace of a project, often months before the permit, while the design team is still being assembled.

Launch Lookout pulls new-building permits from Portland Permitting & Development, Clark County and the City of Vancouver every day, along with Clark County pre-application conferences, and maps them around your shop. Tenant improvements rarely touch the roof, so they are left off this page by default; you can add them in your account.

These are fewer records than most trades, and each one is a whole building: an apartment block, a warehouse, a clinic, a school. The general contractor or developer behind the permit picks the roofer, so the first call goes to them, and a new roof is the start of years of inspections and repairs at the same address. Commercial permits from Washington County cities such as Beaverton and Hillsboro are not included yet.