Jacek Bienkowski Corrosion of Reinforcement: Why Balcony Repairs Keep Failing You will almost certainly have seen degraded reinforced concrete: the surface layer - the cover - missing, and the reinforcement exposed. It is very common, especially on balcony edges, and the homeow... 20 Apr 2013 Blog
Jacek Bienkowski Italo High-Speed Trains: Protecting the Wash Platforms Train washing platforms are a brutal environment for concrete. Every day they are soaked with water and detergents, and over the years that chemical load corrodes the cement matrix irreversibly - even... 7 May 2012
Jacek Bienkowski Measuring Relative Humidity in Cement Screeds Excess moisture in screeds is known to damage floor coverings - timber, linoleum, resins. Rising moisture carries alkalis and salts to the surface, where they attack adhesives and coverings and cause ... 18 Mar 2012 Blog
Jacek Bienkowski Faresin SpA: 19,000 m2 of Warehouse Floor Protected with Pavishield The Faresin group has built agricultural and construction machinery for more than thirty years. Its new warehouse in Breganze, near Vicenza - over 19,000 square metres across two floors - was designed... 7 Aug 2011
Jacek Bienkowski E75 Motorway, Budapest: Concrete Protected Against De-icing Salt De-icing salt is one of the most insidious enemies of concrete pavement: it drives chloride into the matrix and accelerates freeze-thaw scaling. When the Hungarian motorway authority commissioned Cola... 21 Feb 2011
Jacek Bienkowski Catania Calcio Sports Centre: Pavishield and Ercole on a Concrete Deck The suspended slab of Catania Calcio's new sports centre needed two things: protection of the fresh concrete, and a hard-wearing finish that could go on fast. Ecobeton supplied both. First, Evercrete ... 20 Apr 2010
Jacek Bienkowski Mestre Motorway Bypass: Vetrofluid on 32.5 km of Infrastructure The Passante di Mestre is a 32.5-kilometre motorway built to take through-traffic off the congested Mestre ring road outside Venice. It forms part of the Barcelona-Kiev-Adriatic European corridor, and... 5 Mar 2008
Jacek Bienkowski Cimolais Bridge: ANAS Specifies Vetrofluid for an Alpine Deck Alpine bridges age faster than almost any other structure: repeated freeze-thaw cycles and heavy winter salting drive water and chlorides into the deck, and the damage compounds year on year. For the ... 10 Jul 2006
Jacek Bienkowski San Benedetto Mineral Water: Acid- and Dust-proof Floors at a New Plant San Benedetto is one of Europe's largest producers of mineral water and soft drinks. Its new plant at Padernello di Paese, near Treviso, was an ambitious, technologically advanced facility - and its c... 15 Jun 2006
Jacek Bienkowski Dal Zotto SpA: Permanent Protection for External Industrial Yards The Dal Zotto group manufactures domestic heating stoves under the La Nordica and Extraflame brands. Its external yards near Vicenza are exposed to hard winters - repeated freeze-thaw cycles - and, li... 20 Mar 2006
Jacek Bienkowski Calvene Bridge Restoration: Halting Carbonation with Vetrofluid Ecobeton treatments are not only for new-build. The Calvene bridge shows the other half of the story: conserving and restoring an ageing structure. Carbonation had advanced through the concrete cover,... 24 Sep 2005
Jacek Bienkowski Net Center, Padua: Pavishield for External Car Parks Net Center was one of the largest and most innovative construction sites in Padua, delivering new commercial and office space designed by architect Aurelio Galfetti. Its external car parks would face ... 19 Aug 2005
