Corrosion is prevalent throughout transportation infrastructure and from a social perspective this can result in extreme disruption as building maintenance and construction leaves them temporarily out of use. If degradation occurs in important infrastructures such as highways, electrical towers, parking structures and bridges, then this has a direct effect on the people using them daily and stops services being delivered efficiently. In extreme cases, transport infrastructure that succumbs to corrosion can result in injury or loss of life.
The good news, however, is that we can be intelligent in how we tackle the problems to reinforced concrete structures. C-Probe’s range of products offer durable protection and choice of how to repair and protect corrosion.
Rivier Avon Viaduct Case Study
Bervie Jubilee Bridge Case Study
Studies conducted by the U.S. Federal Highway Administration in cooperation with NACE International, the Corrosion Society, show that utilities, which supply gas, water, electricity, and telecommunications services, account for the largest portion of annual corrosion costs. It was found that systems such as drinking water and sewer systems accounted for the largest portion of the annual costs. Utility infrastructure is used every day within society and corrosion poses a huge risk to our daily lives.
Corrosion protection and monitoring is essential for the utility sector, as loss of services has a wider impact on health, hygiene and disease control, safety, security and the environment.
Hunterston CWI Jetty Case Study
Heritage buildings play a critical role in the distant history of a local region or nation, or still represent an important time or event. Nowadays, historic buildings are continuously reused, commonly as workspaces and offices. 23% of the UK’s domestic building stock pre-dates 1919 and 100,000 landmark and commercial buildings are of transitional steelframe construction, built between 1900 and 1950, now potentially suffer from corrosion.
Historic restoration makes up a significant portion of the projects we tackle using our low-carbon corrosion protection and monitoring products. Not only do we protect some of the most prestigious, well-loved buildings in the country, we contribute to the right adaptation measures being taken wherever possible to maximise energy efficiency and reduce carbon. We address this with cathodic protection that controls corrosion into the future, whilst reporting on performance as standard to provide sustainable resilience.
Reinforced concrete decks, frames, columns, cladding and other such structural elements, often built in the 1960s-80s, are subject to corrosion-related issues as the cover becomes contaminated with chlorides, carbon dioxide and simply water related damage.
C-Probe has a wealth of experience with corrosion management of buildings and car parks where many mitigation methods have been adopted and performance related data have been acquired and reported. All other products can be relevant to these structures in the form of:
Longfellow Garage & Towers Case Study
Marine structures are amongst the most vulnerable sections of infrastructure where extreme environments provide the perfect storm for corrosion problems to develop. Corrosion occurs when an electrochemical reaction that takes place in the presence of an electrolyte, as a result of its interaction with the working environment. Corrosion on offshore marine structures is caused by factors such as salt water, salt present in the air, alternating wet/dry conditions (caused by tides) and more. It is structures such as buoys, jetties, piers, bridges in tidal waters and, more recently, oil rigs, that are all exposed to these severe corrosion conditions.
Corrosion is prevalent throughout transportation infrastructure and from a social perspective this can result in extreme disruption as building maintenance and construction leaves them temporarily out of use. If degradation occurs in important infrastructures such as highways, electrical towers, parking structures and bridges, then this has a direct effect on the people using them daily and stops services being delivered efficiently. In extreme cases, transport infrastructure that succumbs to corrosion can result in injury or loss of life.
The good news, however, is that we can be intelligent in how we tackle the problems to reinforced concrete structures. C-Probe’s range of products offer durable protection and choice of how to repair and protect corrosion.
C-Puck® galvanic anodes can be used within and outside repair patches to ensure these concrete repairs are protected from incipient anode formation for the long-term. You can monitor these using the C-Probe AchilleGCP network management system if you prefer to plan for the moment where consumption of the anode is known before new problems re-appear.
Our alkali-activated geopolymer ICCP anode materials are also suitable for controlling corrosion problems for the infrastructure’s service life and avoids the need to replace the anode material. Our AchillesICP network management system will be on hand for remotely control and performance assessment to report compliance with international standards.
Alternatively, you can have the best of both worlds with the C-Probe Carro+® galvanic/ impressed (GI) combination anode system. You have the choice of mode of operation, where it provides an initial impressed current boost to the structure before allowing the galvanic anode to provide the next, say, 15 years of protection, but still maintaining the comforting thought that the system can be switched to ICCP mode any time the structure needs another boost or permanent operation. Scheduling the permanent installation of the AchillesICP network management system can provide a significant impact to the capital expenditure of the facility.
For structural elements especially feeling the effects of age, environmental impact or you are looking for seismic strengthening and protection, then our fireproof FRP with ICCP anode capability may be what is needed.
Studies conducted by the U.S. Federal Highway Administration in cooperation with NACE International, the Corrosion Society, show that utilities, which supply gas, water, electricity, and telecommunications services, account for the largest portion of annual corrosion costs. It was found that systems such as drinking water and sewer systems accounted for the largest portion of the annual costs. Utility infrastructure is used every day within society and corrosion poses a huge risk to our daily lives.
Corrosion protection and monitoring is essential for the utility sector, as loss of services has a wider impact on health, hygiene and disease control, safety, security and the environment.
C-Puck® galvanic anodes can be used within and outside repair patches to ensure these concrete repairs are protected from incipient anode formation for the long-term. You can monitor these using the C-Probe AchilleGCP network management system if you prefer to plan for the moment where consumption of the anode is known before new problems re-appear.
Our alkali-activated geopolymer ICCP anode materials are also suitable for controlling corrosion problems for the infrastructure’s service life and avoids the need to replace the anode material. Our AchillesICP network management system will be on hand for remotely control and performance assessment to report compliance with international standards.
Alternatively, you can have the best of both worlds with the C-Probe Carro+® galvanic/ impressed (GI) combination anode system. You have the choice of mode of operation, where it provides an initial impressed current boost to the structure before allowing the galvanic anode to provide the next, say, 15 years of protection, but still maintaining the comforting thought that the system can be switched to ICCP mode any time the structure needs another boost or permanent operation. Scheduling the permanent installation of the AchillesICP network management system can provide a significant impact to the capital expenditure of the facility.
For structural elements especially feeling the effects of age, environmental impact or you are looking for seismic strengthening and protection, then our fireproof FRP with ICCP anode capability may be what is needed.
Heritage buildings play a critical role in the distant history of a local region or nation, or still represent an important time or event. Nowadays, historic buildings are continuously reused, commonly as workspaces and offices. 23% of the UK's domestic building stock pre-dates 1919 and 100,000 landmark and commercial buildings are of transitional steelframe construction, built between 1900 and 1950, now potentially suffer from corrosion.
Historic restoration makes up a significant portion of the projects we tackle using our low-carbon corrosion protection and monitoring products. Not only do we protect some of the most prestigious, well-loved buildings in the country, we contribute to the right adaptation measures being taken wherever possible to maximise energy efficiency and reduce carbon. We address this with cathodic protection that controls corrosion into the future, whilst reporting on performance as standard to provide sustainable resilience.
C-Probe has provided impressed current cathodic protection (ICCP) management systems to protect structural steel frames within transitional era landmark and listed buildings since 1998. Almost two decades later and these buildings remain protected with our reports used to provide ongoing comfort to the Owner but, more importantly, as key due diligence documents for the purchase or sale of these valuable assets.
Our awards speak volumes to our approach to restoration, where cost-effective use of embedded anode and monitoring materials that are controlled remotely provides the platform for performance management of these properties. Over this time, we have fine-tuned our approach through product development to continuously improve the aesthetic application of the embedded materials.
With the C-Probe low carbon +point ® anode system we have excelled by dovetailing installation of the ICCP with routine bed joint replacement to ensure moisture ingress is controlled and the steel protected by the same operation. The asset owner can, not only avoid expensive removal and replacement of stone and brick façades, but they can also keep the cost controlled with the electrochemical solution to the corrosion problem whilst being mindful of the production and aesthetic of the final project.
Reinforced concrete decks, frames, columns, cladding and other such structural elements, often built in the 1960s-80s, are subject to corrosion-related issues as the cover becomes contaminated with chlorides, carbon dioxide and simply water related damage.
C-Probe has a wealth of experience with corrosion management of buildings and car parks where many mitigation methods have been adopted and performance related data have been acquired and reported. All other products can be relevant to these structures in the form of:
C-Puck® galvanic anodes can be used within and outside repair patches to ensure these concrete repairs are protected from incipient anode formation for the long-term. You can monitor these using the C-Probe AchilleGCP network management system if you prefer to plan for the moment where consumption of the anode is known before new problems re-appear.
Our alkali-activated geopolymer ICCP anode materials are also suitable for controlling corrosion problems for the infrastructure’s service life and avoids the need to replace the anode material. Our AchillesICP network management system will be on hand for remotely control and performance assessment to report compliance with international standards.
Alternatively, you can have the best of both worlds with the C-Probe Carro+® galvanic/ impressed (GI) combination anode system. You have the choice of mode of operation, where it provides an initial impressed current boost to the structure before allowing the galvanic anode to provide the next, say, 15 years of protection, but still maintaining the comforting thought that the system can be switched to ICCP mode any time the structure needs another boost or permanent operation. Scheduling the permanent installation of the AchillesICP network management system can provide a significant impact to the capital expenditure of the facility.
For structural elements especially feeling the effects of age, environmental impact or you are looking for seismic strengthening and protection, then our fireproof FRP with ICCP anode capability may be what is needed.
Marine structures are amongst the most vulnerable sections of infrastructure where extreme environments provide the perfect storm for corrosion problems to develop. Corrosion occurs when an electrochemical reaction that takes place in the presence of an electrolyte, as a result of its interaction with the working environment. Corrosion on offshore marine structures is caused by factors such as salt water, salt present in the air, alternating wet/dry conditions (caused by tides) and more. It is structures such as buoys, jetties, piers, bridges in tidal waters and, more recently, oil rigs, that are all exposed to these severe corrosion conditions.
C-Puck® galvanic anodes can be used within and outside repair patches to ensure these concrete repairs are protected from incipient anode formation for the long-term. You can monitor these using the C-Probe AchilleGCP network management system if you prefer to plan for the moment where consumption of the anode is known before new problems re-appear.
Our alkali-activated geopolymer ICCP anode materials are also suitable for controlling corrosion problems for the infrastructure’s service life and avoids the need to replace the anode material. Our AchillesICP network management system will be on hand for remotely control and performance assessment to report compliance with international standards.
Alternatively, you can have the best of both worlds with the C-Probe Carro+® galvanic/ impressed (GI) combination anode system. You have the choice of mode of operation, where it provides an initial impressed current boost to the structure before allowing the galvanic anode to provide the next, say, 15 years of protection, but still maintaining the comforting thought that the system can be switched to ICCP mode any time the structure needs another boost or permanent operation. Scheduling the permanent installation of the AchillesICP network management system can provide a significant impact to the capital expenditure of the facility.
For structural elements especially feeling the effects of age, environmental impact or you are looking for seismic strengthening and protection, then our fireproof FRP with ICCP anode capability may be what is needed.
