Philadelphia Bridge Coating Job Looks Made for Hollywood By Ben DuBose Nearly 60 years of exposure to the elements can pose quite a corrosive threat to a bridge’s structural integrity.
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.
Greatest Hits: Crew Strikes Oil With Tank Recoat By Stephanie Marie Chizik California’s Occidental of Elk Hills needed the tank, which holds heavy crude oil, back in service within 24 hours. The applicators needed to prep and paint — and they proved that they were up to the challenge!
Linking Old, New Floors a Work of Art By Ben DuBose By size, the largest part of the job was the 2,200-square-foot (204.4 m2) main office area, which consisted of decorating new concrete.
One, Two, Three Coats for Army Base Water Tank By Ben DuBose When the 10-man crew arrived at the site to recoat both the exterior and interior surfaces of the carbon steel tank, they immediately found a number of unique challenges.
On Track With Oxygen Train Recoat By Stephanie Marie Chizik Six chambers, 40,000 square feet total (3,716.1 m²), 65 days. Coating systems that were applied to all walls, columns, and ceilings within the scope of the project. Sounds like a straight forward project, right?
Heating Up: Connecticut Ballpark Renovators Overcome Harsh Winter By Ben DuBose The New Britain Rock Cats minor league baseball franchise had been a staple of the community in New Britain, Connecticut, for more than 30 years — until they abruptly left town in late 2015 for a newer stadium in nearby Hartford.
Australian Stadium Redevelopers Floored by New Look By Ben DuBose The facility is currently home for two Australian Football League (AFL) teams — Adelaide Crows and Port Adelaide — and it also hosts concerts and marquee games of cricket, rugby, and soccer.
Greatest Hits: The Case of the Yellowed Epoxy By Craig Campbell, Managing Partner for Paint Inspection Services When it came time for the final inspections of visual appearance and dry film thickness, everyone on the project was amazed. The structural steel looked like a spotted cheetah!
Teamwork Shines Through for Flooring Crew at Ohio Brewery By Ben DuBose MadTree Brewing Co. made history upon opening in 2013 by becoming the first modern craft brewery to can its beer in Ohio.
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.
Coating Failure or Client Flop? By Thomas C. Schroeder, Owner of Master Garage Corporation Our procedure under these conditions is to pin the garage above the threshold to minimize contaminate blow-in on a calm day. We then tidied up and departed the site, leaving instructions with the owner to keep vehicles off the floor for three days
Digging Deep to Rehab Concrete Manholes By Ben DuBose If a concrete manhole fails in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it still make an impact?
Check Mate: Non-Skid Coating Move on Supercarrier By Stephanie Marie Chizik Bogey. Boondoggle. CNO. The Navy has a language all its own. But the world of anti-slip coatings, called non-skid in the Navy world, just may rival that.
Recoated Ferry Freed by Shipyard By Stephanie Marie Chizik As a scope, blasting and coating a car and passenger ferry might not sound like a challenging endeavor. But for Puglia Engineering, doing business as Fairhaven Shipyard with an 80- to 200-person yard, the details of the M/V Kaleetan project were complex.