About Us - History

Knowledge is power. Everything Solus has discovered since day one has formed an unmatched knowledge center positioning clients to gain control over spend in non-core operations.

On May 1, 2001, Solus Industries was incorporated under the name of Roofing People with the purpose of becoming the most influential advocacy website providing essential information to protect corporations from corruption in the roofing industry. The webpage consisted of over two hundred pages of information viewed by thirty to forty thousand users each month. This phase of the company provided extensive interaction with the end-users across a broad base. It identified the most common needs and challenges corporations experienced within the roofing industry including vendors, suppliers, manufacturers, and consultants.

During this phase, Solus became a resource to the roofing industry. They utilized our services for workplace forms, association contacts, and identification of materials produced by manufacturers. This interaction provided great insights into the industry’s behavior and patterns.

Solus Industries had our finger on the pulse of the industry. We were sought out to attend industry round tables, received publication write-ups in multiple industry magazines and various associations, and received the highest booth attendance at the NRCA (National Roofing Contractors Association) annual convention two years in a row (the only two years attended by Solus), and was invited to speak at ASHRAE (American Society of Heating, Refrigeration, and Air-Conditioning Engineers.)

The building blocks in this phase established a resource base of vast amounts of information. This information formed ideologies and provided confirmation on these visions. It also established the foundation to begin the vendor base.

The transition from Roofing People as an advocacy website to Solus Industries as a portfolio management company resulted from knowledge. The knowledge identified from the industry provided great insights to how facility departments were managing portfolios. To confirm our theories, Solus turned our attention to Fortune 1000 companies. We researched 100’s of facility departments to identify their management methods. Regardless of the management tactics utilized, portfolio problems continued to increase in scope, frequency, and cost. Solus’ determination to produce a successful outcome would require a revolutionary management approach. Solus would need to intercede on the behalf of the corporations and orchestrate the resources available in the industry.

During this phase in the transition, Solus focused on designing the fundamental policies, procedures, and software to manage this revolution. Understanding our core roots of knowledge is power; Solus identified key performance matrixes, data collection methods, categorization of data, and the overall data definitions. In addition, focus was directed to identifying and selecting the local vendors to be utilized to execute the required work to maintain these national portfolios.

Over the past 10 years, Solus has been very deliberate on the clients with whom we have chosen to partner. Our strategic business partnerships are with key individuals in leadership positions who protect the bottom-line of the corporation. This controlled growth has created the ideal environment to observe and redevelop our processes and procedures to reach the optimal level of performance. To date, Solus has conducted 10’s of thousands of events and collected millions of data points.

So what gives Solus the credibility to tell a national corporation their methods are wrong and there is a better way? No other company in history has ever had the type of exposure as Solus to 100’s of national facility departments, thousands of vendors, manufacturers, and consultants, and millions of data points. Knowledge is power and Solus has unmatched knowledge of patterns, behaviors, reasons for decision making, and management tactics to ensure success for our clients. Our processes are continuously refined and strengthen year after year.

Industries

Solus Industries currently provides management in regards to commercial heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC), refrigeration, roofing and paving. In the future, Solus Industries strategy will include an expansion of our management to other facility segments such as: electrical, plumbing and landscaping.