Cool Crew, Hot Work: Library Plaza Becomes Waterproof By Ben DuBose When the plaza outside Illinois State’s campus library started to leak, the Western Specialty Contractors crew aced the test by installing a hot-applied waterproofing solution.
Big-Time Protection for Little Rock Condo Façade By Karen D. Fisher In 2016, the Quapaw Towers block façade was experiencing leaks, cracks, and other damage. The crew from Western Specialty made the repairs and gave the façade a new waterproof coating to offer full protection from the elements.
Haiti Pier Preserved With New Coatings, Dust-Free Prep By Ben DuBose After many years, the pier’s original three-coat catalyzed epoxy system with granular anti-slip additives had begun to fail. As a result, the crew at Quality Sandblasting was called on to install a new deck coating system.
Chart Topping Recoat on Iconic Capitol Records Building By Stephanie Marie Chizik The landmark Capitol Records Building in Hollywood had been leaking for years, and a crew from Raider Painting proved to be the right ensemble to fix it.
Metallizing Offers Long-Term Protection for the Lavaca Causeway By Karen D Fisher Only a few coatings contractors also offer cathodic protection and metallizing. So when the longest bridge in Texas needed major rehabilitation, M&J Construction of Pinellas County Inc. was able to answer the call on all fronts.
Roll On Rock Around the Clock: Resort Gets New Coating By Anthony Punt After the contractor performed a sample balcony installation of a two-part epoxy flake system, the resort’s management team was convinced to use it for numerous vacation facilities, starting with Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Steel City Facility Floor Refresh By Stephanie Marie Chizik A facility in Pittsburgh needed a floor refresh and had only two days to complete it. The local contractor, Titan Floor Surface Technology, used a polyaspartic system to get the facility back and running by Sunday night.
A Shore Thing: Coating the New Pensacola Beach Water Tank By Karen D. Fisher Four crew members were mobilized in April 2019, making the long drive to western Florida to paint the approximately 21,000 square feet exterior of the concrete tank for reclaimed water, including the roof.
Big Floor Fix for Big Ten Teams By Stephanie Marie Chizik The 5,000-square-foot kitchen area floor at the University of Minnesota’s new Athletes Village required a bit of finessing from EDC Install Solutions Inc.
Fenway Park’s Concourse A: High-Traffic Coating for the Win By Karen D. Fisher Fenway Park, which opened in 1912, still has some of the original concrete in the Concourse A entranceway. With only two weeks to spare, Black Bear Coatings & Concrete helped Fenway avoid a total tear-out of a high-traffic area.
Russian Crew Paints ‘Sweet’ Mural for Gas Storage Tank By Anthony Punt O3-Engineering is a Moscow-based coatings company with extensive experience working with assets in demanding environments. As a result, they were a natural choice to provide anticorrosion coatings and passive fire protection solutions for Yamal LNG.
Durable Floor Hand-Crafted for Dauntless Distillery By Karen D. Hickey Craft brewers and distillers know a lot about beer and spirits. And they know a lot more than they probably ever wanted to know about floors. The first time a keg is dropped on an uncoated concrete floor, a brewery owner sees the importance of having a high-quality floor system.
Deck Coatings Crew Lifts LAX Parking to New Heights By Ben DuBose While the airport’s fanciest and most visible assets are often updated, a few of LAX’s concrete parking structures had recently begun to slip through the cracks!
Charity for Church: Saving a Leaky Roof By Stephanie Marie Chizik Despite its storied past, the 100+-year-old structure was riddled with leaks. And, as is typical of many churches and other nonprofit organizations, finances were tight.
ESD Floor Zaps Static Charge at Electronics Facility By Ben DuBose For an electronic components manufacturer, electricity is at the heart of business. But static electricity? That’s a very different story.