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Ever Get that Sinkhole Feeling?
It takes planning and good leadership to decide on an effective solution to problems associated with a building asset. Recently, a large wholesale warehouse facility in Cincinnati began to experience...
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URETEK Ideal for Port Slabs
The Port of Houston is one of the nation’s largest and busiest container ports. Barbours Cut Terminal, the largest facility of POHA, handles enormous amounts of freight in and out, resulting in...
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Pipe Rupture Causes Hospital Emergency
THE PROBLEM: A water main rupture beneath the patient drop off and pick up ramp caused some large voids beneath the pavement. A section of pavement was broken out to allow access for the plumbing...
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Erosion Control, Lake Pontchartrain
The recreational steps along the south shore of Lake Pontchartrain were built in 1929 and the soil beneath the steps has been eroding due to wave action, tidal action, and storms. The voids created...
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Infographic: Crumbling Infrastructure
If you’ve traveled by car anytime in the past year, there’s a good chance that you noticed an array of potholes, lumps, and bumps in your local street or highway. Check out this compelling infographic...
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Leak Sealing the URETEK Way
URETEK’s process for leak-sealing employs a special high density structural grade geo-polymer which is injected directly through concrete or metal wall parallel with the crack or break that requires...
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Keeping Railroads Moving
LOCATION: Baltimore, Maryland PROBLEM: Erosion of Subsoils Below Concrete Roadbed, Track Movement DATE OF PROJECT: December 2011 – March 2012 PROJECT INFORMATION: URETEK ICR – Northern US was...
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Sinking Drain Doesn’t Stop Church-Goers
Fellowship Church in Grapevine, TX was experiencing a settling problem with a parking lot storm drain. Settlement of up to 1.0” was noted, and the surrounding flat work was cracking due to the stress...
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Sinkhole Remediation & Repair with Deep Injection
The URETEK Deep Injection© Process offers customers a time and money saving solution for sinkhole repairs. Overview: • Weather events in regions with rain and floods have caused an extreme amount of...
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Grades Posted for US Infrastructure
Every 4 years, the American Society of Civil Engineers releases a Report Card for America’s Infrastructure that outlines the condition and performance of the nation’s infrastructure. Using the simple A...
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Port of Oakland Stabilization (Video)
Drive lanes succumb to non-stop, overwhelming weight from massive overhead cranes at one of the busiest ports in the nation. Project Background The Port of Oakland was the first major port on the...
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Pond Embankment Stabilization
An effluent pond in Southeast Texas was suffering from years of erosion. Recently, an escalation of subsurface water seepage through the pond’s embankment threatened the community’s main water source....
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11 Years Later: Polymer Proves Long Term
Nearly 20 years of erosion had created deep depressions beneath a street where it crossed over a small canal. Axle-deep ponding during rainstorms complicated access and raised safety concerns for...
View ArticleEmergency Outfall Stabilization
Houston, TX – It has been a little over one year since URETEK assisted the USACE in stabilizing Addicks & Barker Reservoir Outlets. In May 2011, it will be two years since the United States Army...
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Sinking Floors Cause Runaway Carts
Customers reported their shopping carts would roll off if they were not holding on the cart… Texas – A Dallas/Ft. Worth Garden Ridge big box store experienced severe settlement inside their facility,...
View ArticleSaving Bulkheads from Soil Erosion
Texas – If you own a bayhouse or lakehouse for any period of time, you know you will eventually have to maintain, repair, and (GULP!), replace waterfront bulkhead. Tidal changes, boat wakes (small and...
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Refining Solution: Hazardous Soil
Shutting down a refinery for maintenance is not something you want to hear as a petroleum transportation company. Powering down and restarting operations in addition to revenue loss during shutdown...
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Don’t Forget About the Railroads
The railroad industry has been a formidable economic power in America for nearly two hundred years. With nearly 95,000 miles of road, Class 1 Carriers are an integral part of the infrastructure of this...
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Leaky Pipe Causes Soggy Fairway
You’ve done all you can to improve your golf game from mechanics to new clubs. You stand on the tee box and smash the prettiest drive of your life and then…plop! No, not the pond, it’s from your golf...
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Infrastructure Report Card – OUCH!
I don’t know about you, receiving a D in school was the result of obvious neglect on my part. I could think of every excuse imaginable but in the end, I was personally responsible for my grades. When...
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