SEDL / STP / STP1444-EB / STP11471S

How Deteriorated Can Marble Facades Get? Investigation and Design of Repairs

Lavon, B
Principal, Feld, Kaminetzky & Cohen, P.C., Consulting Engineers, Roslyn Heights, NY

Pages: 11    Published: Jan 2004

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Abstract

The existing condition of the exterior marble panel facade of a high-rise building in midtown Manhattan were unsafe. A number of marble faced panels had bulged out and were ready to pop out and fall down to the crowded street below. These deteriorated and unsafe conditions necessitated a facade investigation, close examinations, field testing of marble, and analyses of the deteriorated marble panels. The causes for the failure were determined in order to design effective repairs.