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"The Boys Of
Summer Return To Brooklyn," heralded USA Today.
On the first opening day in
Brooklyn in 44 years, the "Cyclones" took to the field of their new
ballpark.
The team was named for a Coney Island
rollercoaster and while the views from the stadium are spectacular,
designers made sure that the expansion joints presented no hair-raising
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EMSEAL's approach to stadium joint sealing provides a single source
for expansion joints featuring technologies best suited to the many
joint applications in a sports facility.
MCU Park features technologies from a
range of options to suit joint conditions while ensuring
continuity of
seal in changes in plane and direction as well as between technologies.
Starting in the exterior walls of the
superstructure, structural expansion joints are sealed with
SEISMIC COLORSEAL. This products unique,
non-invasive
anchoring ensures the substrates are not violated with screws and
anchors. In addition,
SEISMIC COLORSEAL can be transitioned around, through, over and
under building elements to ensure continuity of seal and
thermal
insulation. |
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Where the
joints in the exterior transition over and down parapets to meet the
tread-and-riser joints of the bowl, watertightness is critical.
Blockouts required for EMSEAL's
THERMAFLEX system in the bowl are continued 8-inches (200mm) up the
inside of the parapet wall. This allows the SEISMIC COLORSEAL to
be married into the THERMAFLEX to ensure continuity of seal. |
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Made to
field-measurements provided by the installing contractor, each inside
and outside corner as tread to riser transitions is factory-welded in
EMSEAL's plant. Each join is
welded throughout the extrusion's cross-section to ensure that the
primary and secondary seals inherent in the system are watertight.
As a further quality measure, each weld
is wrapped with a fully-welded reinforcing sheet that is blended into
the main seal for aesthetics. |
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At the
concourse walkways and concession areas, deck design is appropriately
based on a split-slab principle to suit the function of the deck as a
roof. Ensuring watertightness in
split-slab decks is a particular specialty of
MIGUTAN from EMSEAL.
This system features side flashing
sheets which are embedded in and encapsulated by the hot-rubberized
asphalt waterproofing membrane on the structural deck. The legs of
the MIGUTAN are selected in a height to suit the concrete topping
thickness.
EMSEAL's integrated approach to stadium expansion
joint sealing centers around the belief that through better design,
better products, and better installation we can provide owners with trouble-free expansion joint systems.
Keyspan Park is validation of this approach. |
Who else is using EMSEAL stadium expansion joint solutions?
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