Editor’s Pick: Historic New Zealand Viaduct Gets 21st-Century Makeover By Ben DuBose Concerns over the deteriorating paint system, ongoing corrosion of the carbon steel, pooling water, suspect rivets, and a need to boost capacity prompted owner KiwiRail to seek out solutions to keep the viaduct operational heading into its second century.
Sooner Than Later: Waterproofing Crew Seals OU Football Stadium By Ben DuBose “We had to install below-grade waterproofing, traffic coating, cold-applied waterproofing, joint sealants, expansion joints, and site caulking,” said Chamberlin’s Michael Brau.
Powering Up Battery Charging Area Floor By Stephanie Marie Chizik The client, was opening a new warehouse that was to use fork lifts. And those lifts would need to be charged. A battery charging station equals battery acid. And so the next logical step was install a protective coating system on the new concrete floor.
Working Out a Gym’s Epoxy Floor By Stephanie Marie Chizik For many, working out at the gym usually results in being in better shape or higher fitness, but for the four- to six-person crew from Abbruzzese Floors Inc., they got something special out of their gym membership: a coatings job.
Spooky Town: Coating the Walls and Roof of a Mausoleum By Claire Trageser The purpose of the mausoleum was for it to house Miller’s family when they were laid to rest. Only 15 of those crypts were ever occupied, and recently the bodies were moved to a local cemetery. And it was discovered that the 100-year-old structure was in need of protection.
Salty Coatings Crew Fixes Navy Floor By Stephanie Marie Chizik A hot summer, a poor concrete pour, and a building with no electricity. This could have added up to the makings of a failed mission, but with an experienced crew and adaptable materials, the new epoxy floor at a naval base didn’t go awry.
Fashion House Upgrades in Hong Kong With Gold, Silver Floors By Ben DuBose When executives with the global H&M group saw rough and aged concrete at two of its shops in cosmopolitan Hong Kong, they realized they needed help updating the facilities to better convey the brand’s colorful and youthful image.
Offering Epoxy to the Homeowner By Mark Bekker, Owner of Floormaster The uses of epoxy are as wide and various as an understanding of its chemical properties. It is often used in the commercial and industrial sectors, but an often overlooked area of growth is the residential sector.
Coatings X-Men Achieve Zoo Floor Reno By Stephanie Marie Chizik Before visitors could buy tickets to the new display, though, the Patterson-Stevens crew needed to deal with unexpected moisture in the concrete slab. Polar bears may prefer rivers but coatings contractors surely do not!
Winning Post: Crew Restores Luxury Parking Garage Next to Race Track By Ben DuBose When the new property manager, Stoneleigh Companies, took over operations and rebranded the facility, the desire was for every aspect of the complex to mesh with the luxurious theme and look appealing to potential tenants drawn to the sporting area.
Fast-Curing Polyurea System Boosts Flexibility at Busy Jobsite By Ben DuBose When MarkWest Energy began developing plans for a new gas compressor station in the area, they wanted construction solutions they could both trust and install quickly — allowing them to take advantage of reserves as quickly as possible!
Hungry for Change on Food Facility Floor By Stephanie Marie Chizik It would take a coatings crew that was just as confident to take the nearly bare concrete and turn it into a beefy urethane floor with all the fixins.
Night and Day: Facility Leaves Dust and Dirt Behind By Stephanie Marie Chizik The client was converting an old warehouse into a facility that needed to be Federal Drug Administration (FDA) approved. It took a five-person crew and a slew of materials, but PennCoat played its part to help that come to life.
Waste Not Want Not: Sewage Update for Famous Festival By Stephanie Marie Chizik The Glastonbury Festival in Somerset, England, hails 175,000 attendees and 50,000 support staff, not to mention seven stages and a myriad of other areas for entertainment.
Floors Tamed for Skeptical Vet By Stephanie Marie Chizik Second chances don’t come around very often, so when they do it’s important to make them count. That’s the mentality that Evan Tarabocchia and his crew at Imperial Flooring Systems, Inc. took with a recent renovation at a veterinary hospital in New Jersey.