Commercial Roofing in Farmington Hills, MI
Dry, Sound Roofs for Farmington Hills Office Parks
Family owned. Our own crews, no subcontractors. More than 140 years of combined experience, based in Livonia and serving Farmington Hills and Oakland County.
Commercial Roofing Contractor Serving Farmington Hills and Farmington
Farmington Hills is an office market first. The city had a 2024 commercial base of 46,000 workers, according to a Gibbs Planning Group study for the City. The same study found over 75% of working age adults hold office jobs. So commercial roofing in Farmington Hills is mostly office roofing along 12 Mile Road, Northwestern Highway and Orchard Lake Road. It also covers flex buildings near Haggerty and Halsted Road, medical buildings on Grand River Avenue, and downtown Farmington storefronts.
Shain Roofing is headquartered on Brookfield Street in Livonia, a short drive south down Haggerty Road. Our own crews install, repair and maintain EPDM rubber, TPO and PVC, modified bitumen, built-up and metal roofs, along with coating systems. We fabricate our sheet metal in house, so copings and flashings fit your building.
What Farmington Hills' Commercial Roofs Are Up Against
Cushman & Wakefield’s second-quarter 2026 office report puts the Farmington Hills/Novi/West Bloomfield submarket at 10,844,829 square feet. Of that, 1,704,215 square feet sat directly vacant. Overall vacancy was 16.4%, against 18.5% for the metro Detroit office market. Asking rent averaged $18.81 per square foot across all classes. A Gibbs Planning Group study for the City expects that total to shrink, with net office deliveries negative at least through the third quarter of 2029.
The 12 Mile Road corridor runs about 5 miles from Haggerty Road to Orchard Lake Road and covers about 700 acres. The City’s 2026 corridor study counts 59 office buildings there, over 2,500 businesses and more than 34,000 employees. It calls the corridor challenged by an oversupply of high office vacancies, aging structures and an auto-oriented landscape. East of Drake Road it finds large Class B and C office buildings in succession, most with low or no occupancy. On Orchard Lake Road, the International District buildings date from the late 1950s to the early 1980s.
For a roof, that stock means large membranes over aging decks, long runs of coping and dozens of rooftop units. Half-empty buildings often go years without anyone walking the roof. Drains clog, seams open at the units, and small leaks reach the deck before a tenant notices. The City is now weighing adaptive reuse of aging office stock along 12 Mile. Owners facing that decision need to know what the roof is worth first. An inspection and a written condition report give that answer, building by building.
Where We Work in Farmington Hills and Farmington
Farmington Hills is laid out along a handful of corridors, each with its own building type. Office buildings and corporate campuses line 12 Mile Road and Northwestern Highway. Flex and R&D buildings cluster near Haggerty Road and Halsted Road. Retail and medical fill Orchard Lake Road and Grand River Avenue. Downtown Farmington adds its storefronts.
- 12 Mile Road corridor: about 5 miles and 700 acres from Haggerty to Orchard Lake, with 59 office buildings, many of them Class B and C with low occupancy.
- Hills Tech Drive and the Haggerty to Halsted R&D node: R&D and flex industrial buildings, including Hills Tech Research Park and Technology Park on Haggerty Road.
- Northwestern Highway (M-10) corridor: office buildings near Middlebelt, including 31440 Northwestern Highway, which landed two of metro Detroit’s top-five leases in the fourth quarter of 2024.
- Orchard Lake Road corridor: one of the City’s principal commercial arteries, from the 620,000 square foot Hunter’s Square node at 14 Mile to the International District’s nearly 375,000 square feet.
- Grand River Avenue corridor: a 2-mile stretch from Orchard Lake to Eight Mile with 600 businesses and 7,500 employees, anchored by Corewell Health.
- Halsted Road and Industrial Park Drive: flex-industrial buildings along Halsted, Industrial Park, Commerce and Research Drives, including Freeway Industrial Park. The City rebuilt Halsted Road in 2025.
- Downtown Farmington: the City of Farmington’s core at Grand River Avenue and Farmington Road, where Grand River Avenue buildings have seen extensive renovation since 2009.
Markers show the corridors and buildings named on this page, placed at the corridor or a representative address. The red dot is our Livonia shop.
Built for Farmington Hills Winters
Detroit (DTW) records show 45.0 inches of snow a year on average for 1991 to 2020, 14.0 inches of it in January. The normal January low is 19.2 F. Annual precipitation runs 30.97 inches. For design loads, Michigan Residential Code Table R301.2(5) lists a ground snow load of 25 psf for Oakland County, which includes Farmington Hills and Farmington.
On a flat roof, those numbers turn into ponding water, clogged drains and ice at every seam and flashing. Snow melts on a January afternoon, runs toward a frozen drain, and refreezes overnight at the curb of a rooftop unit. Repeat that all winter and seams open, flashings pull and the deck takes on water. Wet insulation then adds its own weight on top of the snow, which matters on aging decks. A maintenance program catches this early. Our crews clear drains, check seams and flashings before winter, and repair what they find. Proper detailing at curbs, copings and drains, with sheet metal we fabricate in house, keeps water moving off the roof. Our 24/7 emergency leak repair is there when a thaw finds a weak spot.
Roof Systems We Install in Farmington Hills
Farmington Hills roofs range from office campuses on 12 Mile Road to flex buildings on Halsted Road and storefronts in downtown Farmington. No single system fits all of them. We install, repair and maintain six, matched to the deck, the budget and how long you plan to hold the building.
EPDM Rubber Roofing
EPDM rubber is a common choice on large, open office roofs along 12 Mile Road and Northwestern Highway. It handles freeze-thaw well and is straightforward to repair around rooftop units.
TPO and PVC Roofing
TPO and PVC single-ply membranes suit the flex and R&D buildings near Haggerty and Halsted Road. Heat-welded seams stand up to rooftop equipment traffic, and reflective surfaces help with summer cooling.
Modified Bitumen Roofing
Modified bitumen gives a tough, multi-layer roof for medical and retail buildings on Grand River Avenue and Orchard Lake Road, where service traffic to rooftop units is constant.
Built-Up Roofing (BUR)
Built-up roofing has served older office buildings for decades. On the aging Class B and C buildings east of Drake Road, we repair sound BUR and replace it when the deck is ready.
Metal Roof Systems
Metal roofs suit sloped and accent areas on downtown Farmington storefronts and office campuses along 12 Mile Road. We fabricate the panels, trim and flashings in house, so every piece fits.
Roof Coating Systems
Roof coating systems restore a sound but aging membrane without a full tear-off. For half-occupied 12 Mile buildings waiting on a reuse decision, a coating buys years while the owner decides.
Permits and Codes for Farmington Hills Roof Work
In Farmington Hills, roof permits run through the Building Division of Planning and Community Development at 31555 W. Eleven Mile Road, phone (248) 871-2450. The division issues building, plumbing, electrical and mechanical permits and inspects new and renovated structures. The City lists roofing among the kinds of work that require a building permit, and applications go through BS&A Online.
We handle the permit paperwork and the inspections as part of the job. That means filing the application, meeting the inspector on the roof and closing out the permit when the work is done. You get one point of contact for the roof and the paperwork behind it.
Shain Roofing is Proud to be:
A Certified TREMCO Contractor
A Certified FIRESTONE Contractor
A Member of the NRCA (National Roofing Contractors Association)
Roofs of Every Size, From Tech Centers to Storefronts
The largest roofs in Farmington Hills sit on corporate and medical campuses. Corewell Health Farmington Hills Hospital is a 330-bed teaching facility on a 30-acre campus. That campus adds 40,000 square feet of medical office, a 35,000 square foot cancer center and 60,000 square feet of administrative buildings. Along 12 Mile Road, the City’s corridor study names Nissan Technical Center, Bosch, Mercedes-Benz, Comerica Great Lakes Campus and ZF Electronics & ADAS as key tenants. The JST Engineering Campus is under construction there, and the study notes the impending exit of Mercedes-Benz. On Orchard Lake Road, the 620,000 square foot Hunter’s Square node anchors the retail side. Those buildings set the scale here. The same crews handle a 10,000 square foot plaza and a distribution center.
Why Farmington Hills Building Owners Hire Shain Roofing
Shain Roofing is family owned and operated, with more than 140 years of combined experience across the team. We do not use subcontractors. The crew on your 12 Mile Road office roof or Halsted Road flex building is on our payroll. We are a certified TREMCO contractor and a certified FIRESTONE contractor, and we are a member of the National Roofing Contractors Association.
We fabricate our own sheet metal in house, so copings, edge metal and curb flashings fit your building instead of a catalog. We offer installation and replacement, repairs, restoration, maintenance programs, inspections and 24/7 emergency leak repair. Our Livonia shop on Brookfield Street is a short drive south, and we serve Wayne, Oakland, Macomb, Washtenaw and Genesee counties.
Local data sources: Cushman & Wakefield Detroit Office MarketBeat, Q2 2026; City of Farmington Hills 12 Mile corridor study final report, 2026; Gibbs Planning Group office, housing, retail and hotel study for the City of Farmington Hills, July 2025; City of Farmington Hills Building Division; City of Farmington Hills, when is a permit required; Detroit snowfall averages 1991-2020, Current Results; NWS Detroit, January normals and records at DTW; Michigan Residential Code Table R301.2(5), ground snow loads by county. Figures are as published by those sources and are provided for context. Every roof is assessed on site.
Get a Farmington Hills Roof Assessment
If your Farmington Hills or Farmington building has a leak, an aging roof, or no maintenance record at all, start with an inspection. We will walk the roof, document what we find and give you a clear scope. Call Shain Roofing at (734) 524-0155 and request a free estimate.
