Expansion Joint Blog
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 three of these patents broaden the claims on Sika Emseal’s Emshield fire and water resistant expansion joint product lines. Update January 12, 2021: On…
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.…
We’ve said it before: “Anyone can make an expansion joint watertight in cross-section. It’s at changes in plane and direction that they leak.” Emseal’s process, from design to completion, is built around what we call “Continuity of Seal.” This simple principle ensures that joints don’t leak at transitions…
Everyday at EMSEAL we ask our employees to be the best that each person can be. Whether it’s remedying a construction problem, maintaining strong customer relationships, or making sure that the best product gets to where it needs to be — when it needs to be there. With…
Anyone can make an expansion joint watertight in cross-section. It’s at changes in plane and direction that they’ll leak. That is, unless you order custom, factory-welded, reinforced, leak-tested transitions and terminations from Emseal. This week, like any other, we have a number of jobs on the shop floor…