As the owner, operator or manager of a parking garage you have to deal with various challenges regarding maintenance and upkeep. These can include calamities requiring immediate action, recurring maintenance issues, such as cracks, leaks, corrosion, aging of coatings and slipperiness, and things that have gone wrong during the construction or renovation of a building project.
These matters can cause issues with safety, increased management costs and loss of income due to reduced occupancy and decrease the marketability of your parking garage. Public parking garages with multiple floors and those built below groundwater level are particularly at risk.
Incidents involving parking garages are often the result of overdue maintenance and non-sustainable damage repairs. Government regulations do not provide sufficient guidance. In the Netherlands, standard NEN 2443:2013, which sets out the minimum requirements for parking facilities, does not provide guidelines for structural construction or maintenance.
Why choose parking garage assessments from SGS?
We have extensive experience performing damage assessments, based on our inspection protocol, and offer specialist knowledge regarding parking garage construction. We will advise you on how you can minimize risks and resolve serious issues.
We will:
- Advise on potential acute safety risks
- Identify visible and non-visible defects and find out the cause of the damage
- Examine cracks in concrete and identify whether there is chloride penetration
- Determine how leaks are caused and how to stop them
- Provide advice on water tightness during the preliminary phase of design and in the event of damage
- Map large sections of the structure quickly and efficiently using non-destructive testing (NDT) techniques, including radar, ultrasound and electrochemistry, to determine maintenance status
- Conduct skid resistance measurements for smooth surfaces
- Draft coating requirements for new construction and repairs/maintenance
- Provide insight into the remaining life of the parking garage and draft life-extending measures
- Draw up a maintenance plan
Contact us today for more information.