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List of other Complete Project Profiles:

18-year Run at New York City's Guggenheim, COLORSEAL a Permanent Exhibit at Historic Landmark Museum
Atlanta, GA 2.8 Million Square Foot CONRAC Airport Parking Facility (SJS, Thermaflex, Migutrans, Seismic Colorseal, Horizontal Colorseal, DSM System (new-2009)

Boston, MA Prudential Center (SJS-retrofit-2006)

Washington, DC Convention Center (Twinsert-retrofit-2008)

Kansas City Royals Kauffman Stadium (Migutrans, Colorseal, Thermaflex-retrofit-2009)
Green Bay Packers,
Lambeau Field (DSM, SJS-retrofit-2007-09)

NY Mets, Citi Field (SJS, Colorseal-new-2009)

Citizens Bank Philadelphia Phillies Ballpark (Thermaflex, Migutan, Colorseal, 20H-new-2004)
Orlando International Airport Southwest Terminal, Orlando, FL (Migutrans-new-2003)
Keyspan Park, Coney Island Cyclones, NY (Migutan, Thermaflex, Colorseal-new-2001)
University of Massachusetts Medical Center, Worcester, MA (DSM-retrofit-2007)
EMC2 Corporate Office Building & Parking Deck (DSM-retrofit-2007)

Atlantic Station, Atlanta, GA (Migutan, Thermaflex, Colorseal, Migutrans-new-2004-05)

Woodbine Slots, Toronto, ON (Migutrans-retrofit-2000)

Hilton Boston Logan (Seismic Colorseal-new-1998)
St. Louis Lambert Field Airport (Colorseal-retrofit-2000)
Tampa International Airport, FL (Migutrans-retrofit-2006)

Jet Blue Terminal, JFK International Airport, NY, NY (Migutan-new-2007)

Zurich Insurance, Baltimore, MD (Thermaflex-new-2001)
Clinton County Courthouse Ohio (Horiz.Colorseal-retrofit-1992)
Longaberger Basket, Newark, OH (Backerseal-new-1997)
Mississauga Living Arts Center, ON (Colorseal-retrofit-2000)
Niketown, Newbury Street, Boston, MA (new-1998)

President's Plaza, Chicago, IL (Migutan-retrofit-2001)

100 Cambridge Street, Boston, MA (Migutan, Colorseal-new-2003)
300 North Park, Chicago, IL (Migutan-retrofit-1998)
Mall of America (Backerseal-new-1992)
Boston Red Sox
Fenway Park (Migutan, Colorseal-retrofit-2003)
Baltimore Ravens
M&T Bank Stadium (Thermaflex, Colorseal-new-1998)
Kinnick Stadium, U of Iowa, Iowa City, IA (DSH-retrofit-2006)
Lawrence Municipal Stadium, Lawrence, MA (Thermaflex-retrofit-2005)
Washington Redskins FedEx Field (Thermaflex-retrofit-2000-05)

 

 

 


Phillies Citizens Bank Park Gets Major-League Stadium Expansion Joint Treatment
(New construction 2004)

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.


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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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