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The months ahead put parking garages to the test. In colder regions, freeze-thaw cycles and deicing salts work their way into joints, cracks and coatings. In coastal areas, salt air never takes a season off. In hurricane-prone regions, the end of storm season is the time to find out what the summer left behind.

We often see the damage that shows up in spring start as something small in the fall: a joint that stopped sealing, a drain clogged with leaves or a coating worn through in a busy drive lane. Caught now, these are usually simple repairs. Left through the winter, they can become something much bigger.

That’s why our feature this month is a pre-winter checklist of what to look for before the weather turns, from expansion joints and drains to coatings and snow plans. We also take a closer look at expansion joint systems and share a recent project from the field.

For owners managing more than one parking garage, the challenge is making sure what gets found at each site actually gets fixed, in the right order. That’s what the Restocon Integrated Asset Program (RIAP), introduced last month, is designed to do. Learn more about RIAP and schedule a discovery call with our team.

Have a great month!

-The Restocon Team

Getting Your Parking Garage

Ready for Winter

The first frost on the top deck is a reminder that winter is on its way. Before snow, ice and deicing salts arrive, here’s what to check, from expansion joints and drains to coatings and snow plans.

Parking garages are built to move. Concrete expands and contracts with temperature changes, and expansion joints let that movement happen without cracking the structure, while keeping water and deicing salts out of the levels below.

When a joint fails, water finds its way through quickly. Restocon installs, repairs and replaces a full range of expansion joint systems, including winged joint systems, compression seal systems, foam joints and metal cover plate systems, matched to the movement and traffic demands of each garage.

Restocon’s work at UCF Garage C had to fit into a tight window: the entire project needed to be completed over the summer, between semesters, before students returned to campus.

The challenges started on day one. About two-thirds of the garage’s existing sealants, assumed to be urethane, turned out to be silicone, adding complexity to an already compressed schedule.

The scope was extensive. Restocon removed and replaced more than 20,000 linear feet of sealants and completed concrete repairs, epoxy injection, traffic coatings, clip connector reweldments, double tee bracing installation and expansion joint removal and replacement. The team also shotblasted and sealed more than 152,000 square feet of top deck.

Despite the obstacles, Restocon finished ahead of the already compressed schedule and turned the garage back over to the university in time for the new semester.

Winter Grounds Management

Faces a New Reality

Rising costs, unpredictable weather and new technology are reshaping how facilities prepare for winter. FacilitiesNet talks with the head of the Snow and Ice Management Association about what’s changing and how to stay ready for whatever the season brings.