A Manufacturer Offers A Prefabricated Restoration Solution With One Warranty.
As a building owner, the last thing you want is for your façade to fail. Especially when that involves stones falling from your structure to the pavement below. That is exactly what happened with the 500 Pacific Avenue Building in Bremerton, Wash., which required immediate action to protect occupants and passersby.
Constructed in 1965, the façade of the 75-foot tall structure used concrete panels with embedded granite stones. Fast forward fifty years and this Class A office building faced substantial weathering and water damage, which led to mold growth, corrosion of the balconies and the failure of the decorative exterior. In the summer of 2015, the situation became critical when a baseball-sized rock fell from the building to the sidewalk, nearly striking a pedestrian. The building owner, Cardinal Equities, contacted Applied Restoration Inc. to find the source of the issue and determine a solution.