Expansion Joint Blog
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 up…
Update December 14, 2021: On November 23, 2021 US Patent 11,180,995 issued. This patent broadens coverage on Sika Emseal’s fire-rated tunnel expansion joint systems. Update March 29, 2021: On March 9th, 2021 US Patent 10,941,562 issued, and on March 2, 2021 US Patents 10,934,702, and 10,934,704 issued. All…
«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…
Rough expansion joint substrates are actually very common. We were contacted recently about rough limestone and its suitability as a substrate for an expansion joint. It’s a great question because so many of the old technologies — compression seal, strip seal, closed-cell foam — would have left this building…
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…
The need for a better seismic expansion joint drove the development of the SJS System from 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 development goals…
Our amazing, smiling, weld team continue to crank out parking garage expansion joints customized to follow any changes in plane and direction you throw at them. And, yes, they are smiling! Here they’ve not only taken our Thermaflex winged joint through a complex double/dogleg tee, but they’ve provided…
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…
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’s SWRI-Validated Expansion Joint Training program has been popular among architects, engineers, consultants, contractors, distributors and representatives worldwide. This educational, hands-on installation training program is AIA-registered and offers 8 HSW learning units upon completion. Topics to be covered include: history, design, technology failure analysis, safety, and quality assurance.…