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Just this past summer, one of the largest health care insurance companies in the world called me out to look at a large, concrete basin that had been coated several years prior. The coating, a polyurea that had been applied between 40 and 80 mils,...
Fate is fickle, and it knows no bounds. Such is the case with an underground storage tank (UST) facility hidden in the Red Hills of Pearl Harbor, which is still in operation after more than 75 since the infamous events that lend to its namesake. These USTs...
“Temperature: friend or foe?” We received an urgent call from a client several weeks ago. A critical process tank was forced out of service. Engineers and contractors were working around the clock on the tank and other associated systems, as needed to get it back into...
“How my big, fat head momentarily got in the way of serving our client” Our firm spends most of its time helping companies determine optimal solutions for corrosion mitigation which is often, but not always, optimal coating/material identification. This summer was no different. One of the largest...
“It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics,” George Bernard Shaw So let’s start with the numbers: Weight: 40,000 tons. Roughly the weight of 3 Eiffel Towers, 107 fully loaded 747s or the USS Missouri battleship. Height: 590 feet tall. Roughly...
I think a lot. I’m not boasting. I’m lamenting. I have a mild case of attention deficit disorder (ADD). For me, staying focused on an idea is a lot like trying to catch a canary. Picture a fluttering, yellow canary in a living room. Every once...
We were honored to have The Chief Association run this piece about the Calder Flamingo. About 5 years ago, CCG was hired to manage all of the QA/QC work on the painting of the famed Calder Flamingo. Read the details here: https://chiefengineer.org/?p=20962...
One of the benefits, and pleasures, of providing highly technical, vendor-neutral corrosion mitigation and optimal material selection consulting, is that we stumble upon new products all the time. CCG is fortunate to work in a variety of spaces. In the past month, we’ve remediated a failed...
I've been immersed (pun intended) in the coating industry for decades. I've installed, specified and inspected hundreds of different types of paint and coating systems. And I've heard the arguments for multiple-coat systems and single-coat systems. Clearly, in many cases, a multiple-coat system is intuitively...
I was recently inspecting a 250' diameter, floating roof waste water treatment tank. The interior coating on the walls of the tank appeared to be, in many places, intact. In other places, it exhibited blistering, with liquid underneath. But to my surprise, when I chipped...