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  • Roofing
  • Roof Repair

How to Protect Roof Membranes During and After Construction

Roofers face multiple problems on site today. 80% of failed roofs and leaks are caused by non-roofers. Therefore, it is a main priority to protect the roofer’s craftmanship from traffic on the rooftop during the total building phase, during construction and beyond.
Close up view of bitumen membrane applied on roof at parapet
  • Waterproofing
  • Roofing

How to Choose or Specify the Correct Bitumen Membrane

Whether you're an architect, roofing applicator or anyone involved in selecting the right bituminous roofing, it's hard to know where to begin.
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Tile setting in bathroom with Sika Ceram cementitious tile adhesive
  • Tile Setting

Tile Grout & Adhesive Consumption Calculator

Choosing to buy proper amount of tile grout and tile adhesive is important. Lack of understanding to calculate, lead to abundant quantities or shortage than expected. So what are appropriate quantities of tile grout and tile adhesive shall you buy? Difference factors e.g. tile size, tile gap and application area are what you have to concern. The calculator from Sika will bring you a more convenient, just a few clicks.
  • Joint Sealing

Questions and Answers of PU Foam

PU Foam is a polyurethane foam in spray foam type. They can be used for fixing, insulating and filling connection joints around window and door frames, pipe entries, air conditioning vents and roller blind housings and filling large cavities, fill and insulate against noise, cold, and drafts and waterproof, easy to apply with nozzle valve, can be cut, sanded and over painted. The foam texture looks like a mousse and cure in contact with moisture when applied. Therefore, PU foam is widely used in both construction and DIY. Below you can learn more about their properties and preparation and application process.
Industrial floor coating with Sikafloor system for clean room areas
  • Flooring

Cleanroom Measurement Technology for Floors & Walls

There are a lot of things that different industries have learned from one another over time. One example is the food and beverage industry and what it has learned from pharmaceuticals, particularly how they conduct research and run production operations.
Safe and hygienic surface in food and beverage production plants
  • Flooring

Why Durable Floors Matter in Food & Beverage Plants

A durable floor is one that lasts a long time, remains functional, and resists deterioration or loss of performance. Durable floors begin with quality materials, good design and sound workmanship. What matters most to ensuring durability in floors, especially in food and beverage factories?
Worker white boots power washing floor with hose in food industry
  • Flooring

Keeping Floors Clean & Food Safe

Hein A. Timmerman, Global Sector Specialist Food Care at Sealed Air and EHEDG* Board Member, comments on protocols and procedures for keeping floors in food and beverage plants as sanitary and safe as possible.
Seamless Floor Hospital
  • Flooring

Hygienically Sealed Details & Joints in Floors

Joints and junctions are the weakest parts of floors in industrial environments. They are exposed to similar stresses as the floor itself, but also must accommodate possible movement in the structure or between building components. It is ideal to provide surfaces with hygienic, jointless connections.
Workers applying wood floor adhesives
  • ์Nail Adhesives
  • Flooring

The Science Behind Wood Floor Adhesives

The task of wood floor adhesives is to firmly bond the organic wood floor elements to the generally inorganic screed. The adhesive must hold the wood in place, connect it to the underlying screed and transfer stress originating from the natural expansion and contraction of the wood to the generally rigid screed. The undesired but natural movement of the wood can become visible in cupping, joint formation, or in extreme situations failure of the adhesive or screed.
Architectural textured concrete wall produced with Sika concrete admixtures at Limmat building in Zurich
  • Concrete Admixture

Architectural Concrete

The ability to appreciate concrete as an aesthetically versatile construction material has led Sika to many innovations in architectural concrete. The flexibility of concrete in design enables the designer to create structures not possible with other construction materials. Combining this flexibility with Sika’s over one hundred years of experience and expertise in concrete formulation and optimization allows structures of true architectural value to be realized.
Construction worker pouring ready mix concrete on building basement
  • Concrete Admixture

Concrete Products for Building Contractors

Are you a building contractor or working in a similar field and looking for the best concrete products and solutions for all your projects?
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Floor joint in warehouse floor
  • Flooring

How to Design an Ideal Floor for Warehouse and Logistics Facilities

In warehouses and logistics buildings the concrete slab and flooring are critical to the effective functioning of the operations. However, it is often the perception that the concrete floor is one of the most straight forward elements of the project, and many times the overall attention paid to design and construction detail is less than proportional to its ultimate importance in the efficient operation of the facility. The expectation is that these large area floors must be constructed with lowest possible cost and provide problem free service year after year.
Hygienic floor and wall coating in hospital made with Sika coating systems
  • Flooring

Hygienic floors, walls and ceilings in hospitals and healthcare

Infection prevention and control is of utmost importance in hospitals and other healthcare facilities. Building owners, facilities managers, healthcare architects and all others involved in healthcare design decisions need to consider how the materials used within a building contribute to this issue.
Urban heat island effect drawing with temperature distribution in city
  • Roofing

Cool Roofs Reduce Urban Heat Island Effect

Many urban and suburban areas have higher temperatures than their rural surroundings. This temperature difference indicates that they are urban heat islands. The annual mean air temperature in a city of a million or more people can easily be 1 to 4°C warmer than in the rural surroundings. On a clear, calm night the difference can measure even 12°C or more. The main cause of urban heat island effect is the modification of the land surface in cities. Natural vegetation is replaced by the built environment. Most surfaces of new structures are characterized by low solar reflectance and high impermeability. Additionally, they are often built with high-density materials which absorb great amounts of thermal energy and release it as heat.
Architectural concrete facade with joint sealing
  • Joint Sealing

Considerations for Facade Joint Design

The facade is the face of buildings. In contemporary architecture, the facade is of special interest expressed by large dimensions, unconventional shapes and high material diversity. Especially with these unique shapes and connections, joint design is demanding and prone to mistakes. For integral joint specification, following some rough guidelines will result in a long-lasting and tight building envelope.
Hydrophobic impregnation for protection of concrete structures
  • Concrete Admixture
  • Waterproofing

Watertight Concrete System

Waterproof concrete is an impermeable concrete used for long-lasting, durable watertight construction. To improve the impermeability of the concrete, water-resisting admixtures can be added. Nevertheless, design and construction of a watertight concrete structure is a system approach, and waterproof concrete is only one element of it. Water impermeability is determined by fulfilling requirements to limit water permeability through the concrete itself, the joints, installation parts and cracks.
Excavator standing on heavy duty cementitious floor in warehouse
  • Flooring

Dry Shake Hardeners for Concrete Floors

Dry shake aggregate floor hardeners are commonly applied to the surface of freshly placed concrete to improve wear resistance and occasionally to color a concrete surface. They decrease typical plain concrete negative properties like dusting and liquid absorption by improving the abrasion resistance and reducing surface permeability.
Fireman extinguish the fire with water
  • Joint Sealing

International Standards and Classifications for Fire Testing

Sika’s passive fire protection solutions are designed to be able to seal all different types of building joints and penetrations, in order to help keep fire in defined compartments for a certain period of time, thereby allowing people to evacuate safely. Sika passive fire protection solutions comply with the most relevant national and international standards (including EN, UL, EAD (ETAG), ASTM, AS, Certifire), in order to confirm that they meet the highest fire resistance requirements and consequently can help save people’s lives.
Collection of Sika 3D concrete printed elements columns towers shapes forms
  • Concrete
  • 3D Concrete Printing
  • Article
  • Architect
  • Contractor

3D Concrete Printing

3D concrete printing (3DCP) is a form of cementitious, additive manufacturing used to fabricate buildings, houses or construction components in completely new shapes not previously possible with traditional concrete formwork. Sika offers Sikacrete® 3D material solutions for printing concrete rapidly, precisely, and inexpensively according to your project needs.
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  • Concrete Admixture
  • Flooring

SikaFiber® Software for Fiber-Reinforced Concrete Calculation

The SikaFiber® software for calculating fiber-reinforced concrete slabs on grade is a powerful tool for optimizing designs. The software has been developed in accordance with two globally recognized guidance documents and is free to download.
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