Floor Application

Saving Arena Space and Maintenance Fees with One Hard-Cem Slab Background Once hockey season is over, it’s time for arenas to make room for other sports and events outside the ice rink. However, for some arenas, that can mean removing the rink’s ice slab entirely, which was certainly the case for the Sherwood Twin Arenas … Read More

Earning Several Awards for Optimal and Sustainable Design Background For years, the City of Calgary in Alberta, Canada, knew they’d need a new indoor facility to be able to store and maintain Calgary Transit’s new fleet of compressed natural gas (CNG) buses alongside their existing diesel buses. So when the opportunity to do so arose, … Read More

Speeding Up and Simplifying the Construction of Durable Terminal Flooring Background A. Duie Pyle is the premier transportation and logistics provider in the northeastern part of the United States of America (USA). As a result, they can offer multiple integrated services for both transportation and distribution. To back those services up, they make use of … Read More

Supporting the Canadian Forces with Abrasion-Resistant Concrete Background The 5th Canadian Division Support Base Gagetown (also known as CFB Gagetown) is a Canadian Forces base and training facility located in southwestern New Brunswick. It was built in 1958 and is still standing today as an operational training area for Canadian forces. More specifically, it acts … Read More

Applying a Permanent Waterproofing Solution Safe for Potable Water Background As a growing premixed bakery and food products manufacturer in the Philippines, Mix Plant, Inc. needed to build a space where they could test, manufacture, and store their food products. That resulted in the waterproofing and construction of a multi-building project, which included an extension … Read More

Adding Superior Abrasion and Erosion Resistance to the Home of Sidney Crosby Background Cole Harbour Place, the home of Sidney Crosby, is a state-of-the-art, multi-use facility located in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. Built in 1988 with the intention of encouraging a healthy and athletic lifestyle, Cole Harbour Place has since become a focal point of the … Read More

Making Room for Alternative Fuel with Integrally Hardened Concrete Background St. Marys Cement has been producing cementitious materials at their six manufacturing plants for decades. Recently, however, the team at the company’s Bowmanville plant saw the need for a new unheated alternative fuels building. Working together with the Barry Bryan Associates team, they drew up … Read More

Offering a High-Quality Sustainable Form of Concrete Abrasion Resistance Background Chapman’s Ice Cream was founded in 1973 and has grown into a multimillion-dollar business that employs hundreds of people. However, in 2009, they experienced a setback. A fire had gutted Chapman’s creamery, and because of that, the company had to rebuild the entire facility. Luckily, … Read More

Developing Cost-Effective Flooring for Gibraltar Mine Background Taseko Mines Ltd.’s Gibraltar copper-molybdenum mine is located in south-central British Columbia, approximately 60 km (37 mi) north of the City of Williams Lake. Built in 1972, the Gibraltar Mine is the second largest open-pit copper-molybdenum mine in Canada. As part of the mine’s multi-phase expansion and modernization … Read More

Keeping Markham’s Community Clean with a Sturdy Waste Management Facility Background While Miller Waste Systems Inc.’s waste management facilities were thriving in the late 2000s, the company wasn’t as impressed with their facility floors. Those concrete slabs just didn’t have the right amount of resistance to surface abrasion and the intense weight from dump trucks … Read More