SERVPRO of Southeast Nashville responded to a historic church after a fire damaged a large portion of its sanctuary. A heater caused the curtains to catch fire, which spread to the walls, damaging drywall, plaster, the stage, roofing tiles and deposited smoke and soot onto the pews, throughout the structure.

NORTON, Ohio – May 29, 2019 – ICP Building Solutions Group (ICP BSG), the foremost supplier of professional products and solutions for building envelope, cementitious and sports surface needs, has announced the hiring of Brian LaGuardia as vice president, ICP Building Envelope Group.

A project to clean up and restore one of the most significant landmarks along the waterfront of New Bedford, Massachusetts, has been recognized for engineering excellence by the American Council of Engineering Companies of Massachusetts (ACEC/MA). The annual ACEC/MA Engineering Excellence Awards recognize engineering achievements demonstrating the highest degree of merit and ingenuity.

Cortec announced that its product, MCI 2020, is being used to treat the steel and concrete of Krk Bridge, a reinforced concrete arch bridge connecting the Croatian island of Krk to the mainland and carrying over a million vehicles per year. Investigators discovered that salt accumulates on the surface of the reinforced concrete structure and chlorides penetrate through the protective layer of concrete to attack the reinforcement because of strong winds at the site. 

In the disaster recovery and restoration world, the media used for blasting is determinative to project outcome. Many historic buildings have delicate surfaces that often require a softer media. In the cases of disaster recovery, how to remove soot, coal, char and other unwanted items without damaging the structure has always been the center of discussions.

BNP Media, parent company to the magazine you’re reading now, annually asks readers in each of its AEC and mechanical system publications to list what they most want to see more of. What consistently tops that list is new technology, which is understandable given how technology can help make projects and the process of completing them easier and more efficient.

A recent anniversary – 21 years in the business – was announced by my business-related social network computer program. Of course, I realized that the milestone – completing my second full decade in the restoration industry - was approaching, but I didn’t realize that the programmers at LinkedIn would announce it to my entire business and social network.

Ever heard the saying “…take a long walk down a short pier”? It’s a clever, but not very nice way to tell someone to go jump in a lake.

Smoke damage restoration is one of the primary services of our industry. Many projects are fairly cookie-cutter while others require more effort to execute.