Steve Arendt of the Luxembourg bus operator TICE:
An office building in the Luxembourg town of Esch-sur-Alzette was subsiding. Cracks had appeared in the façade within a relatively short space of time and the windows could no longer be closed. Thanks to the URETEK DeepInjection® method, the problem was quickly resolved.
Steve Arendt – engineering director at TICE, a Luxembourg bus transport company – explains: “Our main building in Esch-sur-Alzette is almost 100 years old and began to subside at the end of summer 2018. Cracks appeared in the façade, the windows would no longer close properly and gaps of around 3 cm had formed between the doors and their frames.”
Dilemma
“We called in engineers from a design consultancy to see how we could solve the problem. There were two options: either to replace the foundations of the subsided section – which accounted for about a third of the building; this would have taken a great deal of time and money – or to rely on URETEK DeepInjection®. There was a great deal of scepticism: we were unfamiliar with this method and wanted to be absolutely sure it would work. During a meeting with the URETEK team, we were shown videos of similar projects and all our questions were answered. The design consultancy gave its approval, so we decided to go ahead with URETEK.”
Phenomenal
“The first meeting, the ground survey, the quotation and the final contract: everything happened very quickly. The work took place at the end of January 2019 and lasted three days. We were working in the offices ourselves when we heard the creaking of the floors and walls: the cracks were closing up. Laser indicators were positioned at various key points, giving us a perfect view of the floors being raised. It was phenomenal and I’m absolutely delighted with the result.”
