Expansion Joint Blog
From EMSEAL, the Westborough, MA based company that sealed all 6,514 windows on the Empire State Building LEED Gold retrofit, comes news of their own more local sustainability efforts. Like this massive project, which resulted in a 38% energy savings for the 102-floor, 2,900,000 square foot, New York…
Expansion joints can be said to be among the most critical aspects of design in relation to building performance under geological and weather extremes. In the wake of the recent earthquake, hurricane Irene, and tropical storm Lee, those of us on the East Coast are being given repeated reminders of a…
We are often asked how long our products will last. The answer often is “we have installations in place over 25 years old.” But one is never really sure, until you go and take a look. Seeing the Guggenheim museum has been on my bucket list for a…
Emshield SJS FR One Install Does it All—Fire Rating, Watertight, Traffic Durable, 100% movement. No anchors, no fire-blankets, no gutters. In another industry first, EMSEAL has built the fire-rating into the joint–this time for floor and deck joints subject to cars, pedestrians, material handling equipment and other loads. Installed…
We received an emailed photograph from one of our sales reps today. Here it is: It shows pavers on a split-slab plaza deck–buckled up, cracked, dislodged and missing. The cause? Movement from the structural expansion joint in the structural expansion joint below. So why the mess? The owner…
Over the years, we have been repeatedly asked for a cost-effective way to mate mullion to window or wall at partitions. Partition closures seal the gaps created by semi-permanent, reconfigurable and even permanent partition walls. Acoustical privacy, it seems, is the biggest problem created when demising walls are…
A delightful little ballpark, Mellissa Cook Stadium proudly serves Notre Dame’s Fighting Irish softball team. It also proudly serves the University’s engineering department as a facility that was waterproof and did not leak since the day it was built. This is in large part due to the selection…
When Richmond International Airport undertook a major upgrade and expansion in 2008, it joined a growing list of airports that have, or are over time, upgrading their interior floor expansion joints to EMSEAL Migutrans. Why? The run-of-the-mill floor expansion joints available from a dozen manufacturers are victims of…
The very public plaza at North America’s premier music venue, Lincoln Center in New York City, had a continuing problem with leaking plaza expansion joints. Almost since its initial construction in 1959, it had been leaking water from the grand plaza to the underground parking levels below. Two…
We all came from somewhere. Before concrete there was stone. Before microsphere-modified acrylic polymers, there was tar. EMSEAL is proud to have evolved with changes in material and building science. We would love to share with you, in person, the latest in expansion joint sealing—from our breakthrough Seismic…