For Sarasota roofing company, a big job with Publix

The Publix warehouse in Lakeland has a roof area larger than 10 football fields. Sutter Roofing of Sarasota began installing a thermoplastic system on the building in December. (Photo provided by Sutter Roofing)

SARASOTA - It's a job that, in these relatively slow times, roofers drool over: a space the size of 10 football fields.

Sutter Roofing of Sarasota is wrapping up work on the thermoplastic roof for a 600,000-square-foot warehouse owned by Publix in Lakeland.

The $2.5 million roofing effort was begun in December and is expected to be completed this month.

"The size of this project was massive, about 13 football fields of roof area and 100 truckloads of material," said Doug Sutter, the Sarasota company's president.

"The project is going great with the production and labor budgets both exceeding our expectations."

The roof is expected to be an "energy star" project and LEED-certified, a rating created and governed by the U.S. Green Building Council.

The roofing system is a thermoplastic roofing membrane that temporarily changes from a solid to a semi-solid state when heated sufficiently.

That allows sheets or panels that are overlapped to be fused together and return to a solid upon cooling, forming one continuous membrane.

Sutter, a fourth-generation commercial roofing company, has worked with Publix for more than 15 years.

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For Sarasota roofing company, a big job with Publix