Watertight Expansion Joints and Construction Sealants by EMSEAL

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Watertight parking garage expansion joint transition factory welded where joint size changes around column with Thermaflex System by Sika Emseal

Skilled Factory Fabrication Wins Out

How often do varying structural expansion joint size problems arise that threaten the success of a project? More often than you’d realize it turns out. Construction would be a whole lot easier if the outcome of all designs was consistent and uniform. But that doesn’t happen in the real…

Do Expansion Joint Leaks Plague your Projects?

“We have come to realize that our projects show more problems with expansion joints than all other product categories combined. Yet, expansion joints are a miniscule part of projects in terms of construction costs. How can we work together to produce trouble-free joint seals?” Received in a letter…

The Need for a Better Seismic Expansion Joint

The need for a better seismic expansion joint cover drove the development of the SJS System from Sika Emseal–here’s a summary video to show you the result:  Research, observation, and conversations with engineers and owners pleading for a better option than noisy, leaking cover-and-gutter systems drove the…

Could You Pass UL 2079?

SJS-FR2 — 2-hour Fire Rating Built-In to Seismic Joint System from Sika Emseal Try this:  from a deep, knees-bent squat, stand up to your full height and squat back down again, slowly, taking 6 seconds to complete the cycle.  Do that 400 times. Now squat down and stand…

The above blueprint was taken from an actual set of design documents produced by a firm tired of the endless stream of RFI's and change orders that resulted from ignoring or delaying the consideration of expansion joints until during construction. Beyond the delays and cost overruns, their projects additionally typically had a legacy of leaks. Having adopted the EMSEAL approach to expansion joint design, their projects are instead now distinguished by trouble-free expansion joints.

EMSEAL Expansion Joint WEBINARS

EMSEAL now offers dynamic informative webinars allowing you a complete understanding of watertight expansion joints. Each session touches on many of the features offered in a successful system including movement capabilities, thermal and acoustic integrity, UL fire-ratings, aesthetics, traffic durability and more.  Discussions revolve around the benefit or…

Building expansion joint webinars - Emseal

EMSEAL Expansion Joint WEBINARS

EMSEAL now offers dynamic informative webinars allowing you a complete understanding of watertight expansion joints. Each session touches on many of the features offered in a successful system including movement capabilities, thermal and acoustic integrity, UL fire-ratings, aesthetics, traffic durability and more.  Discussions revolve around the benefit or…

Skybridge expansion joints from JFK terminal to TWA Hotel sealed with Emseal

Saarinen Soars, Emseal Seals – The Adaptive Reuse of an Icon – TWA Hotel

In the TWA Hotel project at JFK International Airport our Seismic Colorseal expansion joint material plays a small but critical role in sealing some of the tapering, varying, compound curved junctions in Eero Saarinen’s masterpiece the TWA Flight Center. This icon of art, aviation and architecture has now…

EMSEAL Expansion Joints and Sealants

EMSEAL Acquired by Sika

Sika Acquires Expansion Joint Manufacturer EMSEAL Westborough, Massachusetts — Sika, global leader in waterproofing, and specialty construction and industrial materials has added expansion joint and precompressed sealant manufacturer EMSEAL Joint Systems Ltd. to its capacity to provide comprehensive foundation-to-roof building waterproofing solutions. Customer-focus, service, and customized solutions leveraged…

Expansion Joint Manufacturer EMSEAL Expands

EMSEAL Expands

Move into 156,000 SF Plant will meet Growing Global Expansion Joint Demand EMSEAL Expands. But you already knew that. EMSEAL’s self-expanding, non-invasively anchored, watertight expansion joint systems have been expanding to fill building expansion joints for decades. In response to global demand for 360-degree building envelope sealing solutions…

Seismic Colorseal-DS Expansion Joints are able to stand up against high winds and strong weather at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

OITC-56 and R-13.5 Expansion Joints Match High Performance Building, Design, and Functional Intent of the Kellogg School of Management

EMSEAL’s Seismic Colorseal and Seismic Colorseal-DS wall expansion joint systems are able to accommodate the many demands placed on them in Northwestern University’s new Kellogg School of Management’s Global Hub. Having been tested to provide high sound attenuation and R-Values and low air permeability architects at KPMB Architects chose EMSEAL products to ensure high indoor environmental…