Expected Service Life and Cost Considerations for Maintenance and New Construction Protective Coating Work

From JPCL, July Special 2017 - Special Issue

By Jayson L. Helsel, P.E., and Robert Lanterman, KTA-Tator Inc.

This guide is designed to assist the coatings engineer or specifier in identify-ing candidate protective coating systems for specific service environments. Applicable to a broad array of industries, it provides details on commonly used generic coating systems, the service life expectancy for each in specific envi-ronments, current material costs, current field and shop painting costs and guidelines for calculating approximate installed costs of the systems....