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Encore AMS shares new corporate vision in exciting new “Human Race” video.
Exciting times for us at Encore Building Products as we drop our very first corporate AMS video, "The Human Race". Created, written, narrated and developed in house, this video attempts to open communication and speak towards racial equality and...
Kaiser Hospital Bellflower
Kaiser Bellflower - Situra Redline Waterproofing a 4" Joint Opening across a ground floor podium deck using the Redline 100. Redline was installed in hot rubber using metal term bars. General contractors - Turner Construction. Waterproofing/Redline installer,...
SpaceX Parking Structure Hawthorne – Project Feature
SpaceX occupies multiple buildings on this corporate campus site and this parking structure serves their increasing number of employees. The parking garage’s footprint is against the property line on three sides. Infrastructure in place for future PV panels on roof...
Project Feature – 5 Hutton Plaza Parking Structure Expansion Joint Restoration – Irvine, CA
5 Hutton Centre Drive - Hutton Centre - Griffin Towers Griffin Towers boasts twin 14-story towers offering approximately 540,000 square feet of premier office space and 6 sty Parking Structure. Original expansion joint covers, painted steel checker plate. Recently...
Encore Building Products Project Feature – The Source Buena Park
The Source is a 500,000 sq. ft. retail, office, restaurant, hotel, and entertainment complex is on the 12.5 acre site at the northeast corner of Beach Boulevard and Orangethorpe Avenue. The development is a Buena Park landmark creating a premier destination featuring...
NBCUniversal E.T. Parking Structure – Universal City, CA: Watson Bowman Project Feature
Location: Universal City Size: 1.8 million square feet for 3,900 cars Cost: N/A Completion Date: 2016 Adorned with classic images of everyone’s favorite extraterrestrial, the new lot stands eight stories tall and is complete with close to five thousand parking...
Project Feature – US Bank Tower, Los Angeles, Seismic Expansion Joint Restoration
Location: Los Angeles Size: 1.4 Million Sq. Ft Cost: $50 Million Renovation Completion Date: June 2016 Building Owner: OUE Architect/Parking Engineer: N/A General Contractor/Builder: Dinwiddie Installer: Century Building Solutions Expansion Joint...
The Importance of Expansion Joint Maintenance and Inspections
I was invited to perform some preliminary expansion joint inspections at a retail center in Southern California. We had had a few early rains and there were some obvious leaks into the structure that were causing havoc to the tenants and facility managers. Seismic...
Project Showcase – Watson Bowman and Encore Building Products Supply Seismic Expansion Joints on 456,000 Square foot IKEA store in Burbank
IKEA Burbank, CA - 805 South San Fernando Blvd, Burbank, CA Location: Burbank, CA Size: 456,000 square feet Cost: N/A Completion Date: February 2017 Building Owner: IKEA Architect/Parking Engineer: Greenberg Farrow General Contractor/Builder: VCC Construction...
Wall System to Aid in Seismic Safety
A BASF Construction Chemicals company has unveiled a high performance exterior/interior vertical wall expansion system joint reportedly capable of accommodating large, multi-directional thermal and seismic displacements. Watson Bowman Acme (Buffalo, New York) launched...