Inspection

MnDOT’s Approach to Improving Bridge Maintenance Painting Operations

Bridges, Coating Assessment, Inspection, Maintenance Painting / By

The Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) conducted a one-day seminar on bridge maintenance painting strategy and project design in May of 2013. One outcome of that seminar was the realization that MnDOT needed a more uniform method to rate the condition of coatings statewide during biennial bridge safety (in conjunction with the new AASHTO Manual […]

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SSPC Coating Specs

SSPC Commercial Coatings Progress Update

Buildings, Coating Standards, Commercial, Inspection / By

The establishment of SSPC’s five commercial coating committees marks a second major expansion of the scope of the Society. Founded in 1950, mainly through the efforts of the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC), SSPC took as its scope the technology of cleaning and painting steel in industrial and public works environments. Indeed, until the mid 1980s, persons of prominence

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