Category: Projects
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 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…
16 years later and the Thermaflex parking expansion joints are still mint at the Island Park Ramp in downtown Fargo, North Dakota. Caulk and backerrod in perimeter joints has long ago dried up and failed adhesively and cohesively (“Oh Geez!”) while the Thermaflex soldiers on. Even the factory-welded…
Fire barrier expansion joints are essential to life safety in any structure. Part of the Emshield family of products, EMSEAL’s WFR2 and DFR2 2-hour fire-rated expansion joint seals were installed throughout the newly constructed Berlin Federal Prison in Berlin, NH. As is common with prison construction, large panel concrete walls…
A fire rated expansion joint filler was an essential requirement in the specification for General Electric’s Gas Turbine Test Stand 8 in Greenville, SC is the manufacturing home of the world’s largest and most efficient gas turbine. It’s an enormous structure capable of housing assembly lines capable of…
We occasionally hear this objection from architects. Notwithstanding that eye-of-the-beholder thing, it may be true–if you actually see the joints. Most people don’t ever notice expansion joints. They’re certainly not the visual focal point of architecture. As expansion joint material manufacturers, in order to inform designers about our products and…
EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ–As the Meadowlands prepares itself for its biggest day in football—Superbowl XLVIII—one thing is for sure—the stadium expansion joints are ready. In the same way that the Meadowlands ushered in the era of billion dollar stadiums, it also marked a watershed in the structural expansion joint…
A Watertight Solution For UK’s Meadowhall Centre Car Parks Failed expansion joints lead to leaky car parks, so specifying the right systems is vital Reprinted from PARKING Review (Issue 259, October 25, 2013) Published online at TransportXtra The Meadowhall Centre in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, is a truly massive…
100 Cambridge Street Still Trouble-Free (2003, New Construction) Installed in 2003, the building expansion joints at 100 Cambridge Street, Boston remain trouble-free. This means the owners aren’t spending money on maintenance. It also means they have no leaks into tenantable space. The complex that includes the Saltonstall government…
Our SJS System has an unrivaled track record in sealing stadiums around the world. It has a similar track record in addressing parking deck expansion joints. Now SJS and it’s UL2079 certified fire-rated version, SJS-FR, are increasingly being used in interiors. The El Dorado International Airport in Bogota Colombia…