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Project Profiles:
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Atlantic Station, Atlanta, GA
(Migutan, Thermaflex, Colorseal, Migutrans-new-2004-05)
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Clinton County
Courthouse Ohio (Horiz.Colorseal-retrofit-1992) |
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Atlanta, GA 2.8 Million Square Foot CONRAC Airport Parking
Facility (SJS, Thermaflex, Migutrans, Seismic Colorseal, Horizontal
Colorseal, DSM System (new-2009) |
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Keyspan Park, Coney Island Cyclones, NY
(Migutan, Thermaflex, Colorseal-new-2001) |
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Washington,
DC Convention Center (Twinsert-retrofit-2008)
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EMC2 Corporate Office Building
& Parking Deck (DSM-retrofit-2007) |
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19-year Run at New York City's
Guggenheim,
COLORSEAL a Permanent Exhibit at Historic Landmark Museum |
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Hilton Boston Logan
(Seismic Colorseal-new-1998) |
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Kinnick Stadium,
U of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
(DSH-retrofit-2006) |
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Jet Blue Terminal, JFK International Airport, NY, NY
(Migutan-new-2007)
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Lawrence
Municipal Stadium, Lawrence, MA
(Thermaflex-retrofit-2005) |
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St. Louis
Lambert Field Airport
(Colorseal-retrofit-2000) |
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Lincoln Performing Arts Center plaza deck expansion joint
retrofit
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Mississauga
Living Arts Center, ON
(Colorseal-retrofit-2000) |
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Longaberger Basket, Newark, OH (Backerseal-new-1997) |
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Montana State University Bobcats Stadium (DSM
SYSTEM-retrofit-2011) |
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Mall of America
(Backerseal-new-1992) |
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University of Massachusetts Medical Center, Worcester, MA
(DSM-retrofit-2007) |
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NY
Mets, Citi Field
(SJS, Colorseal-new-2009)
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Niketown, Newbury Street, Boston, MA
(new-1998) |
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Orlando International Airport Southwest Terminal, Orlando, FL
(Migutrans-new-2003) |
Green Bay
Packers,
Lambeau Field (DSM, SJS-retrofit-2007-09) |
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Citizens Bank Philadelphia
Phillies Ballpark
(Thermaflex, Migutan, Colorseal, 20H-new-2004) |
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President's Plaza, Chicago, IL
(Migutan-retrofit-2001)
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Port Allen Locks, New Orleans, LA (DSM Immersed, retrofit 2009) |
Baltimore
Ravens
M&T Bank Stadium (Thermaflex, Colorseal-new-1998) |
Boston
Red Sox
Fenway Park (Migutan, Colorseal-retrofit-2003) |
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Precision Living, Senior Living, St. Louis, MO (Seismic Colorseal,
New-to-Existing, 2011) |
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Kansas City Royals
Kauffman Stadium (Migutrans, Colorseal, Thermaflex-retrofit-2009) |
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Boston, MA
Prudential Center (SJS-retrofit-2006)
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Washington
Redskins FedEx Field
(Thermaflex-retrofit-2000-05) |
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Tampa International Airport, FL
(Migutrans-retrofit-2006) |
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Woodbine Slots, Toronto, ON
(Migutrans-retrofit-2000)
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Zurich Insurance, Baltimore, MD
(Thermaflex-new-2001) |
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100 Cambridge Street, Boston, MA
(Migutan, Colorseal-new-2003) |
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300 North Park, Chicago, IL
(Migutan-retrofit-1998) |
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Designed with state of the art baseball enjoyment in mind,
the 43,500-seat,
Citizens Bank Park promises to be the "ultimate baseball and
entertainment experience". The features most obvious to fans will be,
according to the Phillies' website, "natural grass and a dirt playing
field ... a scenic view of the Philadelphia skyline ... an open-air
atmosphere and more."
A feature
equally as state of the art as the others but less noticeable to the
average fan is the expansion joint treatment. Unlike most new
stadiums of the modern era, the owners, and designers of Citizens Bank
Park gave expansion joints appropriate consideration--in budget, design,
manufacture and installation.
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.
Phillies Ballpark 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. EMSEAL's
MIGUTAN,
HORIZONTAL COLORSEAL,
SEISMIC COLORSEAL, and
THERMAFLEX systems were all used, often meeting each other where
bowl-to-concourse, concourse-to-wall, bowl-to-knee wall,
concourse-to-suite walls, meet. All of these conditions were
handled in a manner that ensures
continuity of
seal within and between each technology.
A closer look at how this was accomplished
within the
THERMAFLEX systems used, illustrates how EMSEAL (the manufacturer)
and SMS (the expansion joint joint sub contractor) met their obligations
under the
collaborative approach taken in ensuring watertight stadium
expansion joints.
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Tread and riser sealing begins with shop drawings made from a field
survey done by the installing contractor (in this case,
Structural
Maintenance Systems, Inc. of Malvern, PA). |
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EMSEAL's THERMAFLEX technology
features heat-weldable Santoprene rubber from which the tread and riser
arrays are produced. |
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Each weld is reinforced top and
bottom and all segments labeled for specific location. |
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Reinforced top welds are smoothed to provide a
clean look while ensuring strength. |
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The key to watertightness is continuity of
seal--through plane and direction. |
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Continuity of seal is assured by ensuring that
terminations where joints end are made in the vertical plane. |
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Shipped to site in crates, the
factory-fabricated, very long expansion joint arrays, are readied for
installation. |
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Once installed and locked into the
reinforced header material, the treads and riser are watertight. |
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Installation sequencing begins with
compressing the seal into the joint-gap in knee walls, walkways, and
seating treads and risers. |
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Blockouts are primed. |
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The punched flanges are locked into
the polyurethane nosing material in the vertical and horizontal
surfaces. |
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Completed, watertight transition
from walkway to knee wall. |
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Completed, watertight termination
at outer bowl. |
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