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ICRI ANNOUNCES 2009 PROJECT OF THE YEAR AND AWARD OF EXCELLENCE WINNERS

Des Plaines, IL – January 12, 2010 – The International Concrete Repair Institute (ICRI) announces the winners of the 2009 Project Awards. Pentagon Renovations: Exterior Wall Repair and Interior Structural Repair, was chosen as the ICRI 2009 Project of the Year.

ICRI presented the award to Concrete Protection & Restoration, Inc. on October 22, 2009 at the ICRI 2009 Fall Convention in Tempe, Arizona. The Pentagon is considered the world’s largest low-rise office building.
It is a five-story concrete structure with five distinct rings. Above the third floor, each ring is separated by an exterior space known as a lightwell. The speed of construction and a different standard of quality control
left many areas of the lightwell walls with inadequate concrete cover over the reinforcing steel, sometimes less than ½ inch. This lack of cover, combined with carbonation of the concrete, lead to corrosion of the reinforcing steel.
As the steel corrodes, it expands up to ten times its original size, causing spalling of the concrete. It is estimated that there are 250,000 square feet of spalled concrete in the lightwell walls.

ICRI also awarded nine 2009 Awards of Excellence. Detailed descriptions of the winning projects can be found in the November/December 2009 issue of the Concrete Repair Bulletin and at www.icri.org.

ICRI also awarded twelve Awards of Merit.

Please contact Dale Regnier, Manager, ICRI Marketing and Chapters, at 847-827-0830, if you are interested in the availability of high-resolution electronic photographs for any of the 2009 award winning projects.

ICRI, a nonprofit association with more than 1900 members worldwide, is a leading resource for education and information to improve the quality of repair, restoration, and protection of concrete and other structures.