Christopher Fulton is a project engineer at WSP Canada. He recounts a restoration project where the spandrel panels on a high-rise condominium were showing signs of premature corrosion. When he opened up the spandrel panels, he discovered a number of significant issues. Not least of which was the peculiar discovery that the factory installed rigid insulation on the back of the spandrel panels was cut and replaced with mineral wool at the slab edges. Like a forensic investigator, he pieced together what happened during original construction. And from there set about coming up with a repair methodology for how to correct the problem.
On-Site Solutions
On-Site Solutions is a series of short vignettes about problems on construction sites and how they get resolved.
