New shopping plaza protects exposed steel with PROMAPAINT by Promat In the construction industry, the strands of history frequently run long and deep. Worldwide, heritage buildings old and new, intact or in fascinating ruins, attest to this historical legacy.
Both men were in many ways humble civil servants carrying out their orders of the day. Clearly, father and son were, in their own individual ways, both builders and men of some vision. Builders who, like it or not, left behind indelible footprints.
Fast forward to a modernshopping centre in 2005 It is unlikely that neither man would be surprised by the changes wrought by time nor how their two cities have developed and continue building. Norwood in East Adelaide is an excellent case in point.
Norwood Plaza, a new mixed precinct of shops, offices and services, fits comfortably into the neighbourhood. It consists of a structural steel and tilt up concrete slab system, incorporating a basement car park, first floor tenancies and second floor offices and car park.
In the case of Norwood Plaza, PROMAPAINT® 60 was chosen to coat approximately 4500m2 of structural steel. The car park area was top sealed but the office areas were left as white base-coat with no top seal. The Old Surveyor-General - his own home destroyed by fire in 1839 - would be well pleased by Norwood Plaza's triumph of form, function and very sensible protection slotting so well into the modern urban landscape, as his statue on Adelaide's Montefiore Hill continues to look out on the built environment he helped create. For your handbook of PROMAPAINT® Intumescent Coating for the fire protection of steelwork, please contact us via the Enquiry Form on page 7.
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