SWRInstitute 2010 Winter Technical Meeting
‘Reconnect*Resolve*Restore’
Ritz-Carlton, South Beach Miami, FL * Feb. 21-24, 2010

Thank you for attending SWRInstitute’s 2010 Winter Technical Meeting. Below is the final attendee list, presentations and photos from the meeting.

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Evaluation and Repair of Thin Brick Veneer Facades
Carolyn Searls, Simpson Gumpertz & Heger, San Francisco, CA
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Recent Forensic and Remediation Project
Rick Slider, Slider Engineering, West Palm Beach, FL
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Bentonite HDPE Composite Waterproofing Systems; Below-grade Applications, Failures, and Solutions
Karim Allana, Allana, Buick & Bers, Inc., Palo Alto, CA
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The Value of Petrography in Concrete Repair
Brian Wolfe, TEC Services, Lawrenceville, GA
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Forensic Analysis: Sealant Weathering and Product Failures
Jerry Klosowski, Klosowski Scientific Inc., Bay City, MI and Patrick Gorman, Gorman Moisture Protection, Inc., El Paso, TX
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Going “Green” is more than Frogs & Flowers
Scott Buscher, PROSOCO, Inc., Lawrence, KS
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Restoration of the McLean County Courthouse
Dan Bagley, Otto Baum Company, and Ed Gerns, Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates, Inc. 
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Demystifying ASTM Standards Common to Building Facades
John Runkle, Architectural Testing Inc., York, PA    
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In lieu of Project Showcases, eight manufacturers exhibited their Balcony Waterproofing Systems in a similar Showcase set up. Boards were used for educational purposes and an actual tilted mobile platform allowed attendees to view the product application in a shingled format. Attendees were exposed to such material technologies as cementitious, polyurethane and silyl terminated polyether from Tremco, Inc., PROSOCO, Inc., Neogard, Sika Corporation, Chem Link, Inc., Lymtal International, Inc., Pacific Polymers, Inc and BASF Building Systems.  

Tremco, Inc.
PROSOCO, Inc
Neogard
Sika Corporation
Chem Link, Inc.
Lymtal International, Inc.
Pacific Polymers, Inc
BASF Building Systems