by Warren Brand
I’m fascinated by failures. Some would say obsessed. While Chicago Corrosion Group’s ...
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by Warren Brand
When I started my corrosion mitigation consulting firm in 2010, I had one fundamental...
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by Lee Wilson
A great deal of the coating condition survey is visual in nature, and for this reason...
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by Lee Wilson
I have always expressed my concerns in regard to the health and safety of offshore wo...
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by Warren Brand
Understanding run-of-the-mill corrosion on steel is complex enough. I remember my co...
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by Warren Brand
It brought down both Space Shuttles, is responsible for the disaster at Deepwater Hor...
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by Warren Brand
I am intimately familiar with the fine art of “eye-rolling.” As the followers of my b...
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by Warren Brand
My eldest daughter, Jessica, 21, excitedly called me a few months ago to tell me abou...
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by Lee Wilson
Asset integrity can be defined as the ability of an asset to perform its required fun...
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by Lee Wilson
I was approached recently by a fellow coating inspector who had applied for a positio...
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by Lee Wilson
Way back in June 2011, I wrote an article that was published in a European coatings j...
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by Warren Brand
The three-hour drive through the scrub of the Northwestern Shelf of the Permian Basin...
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by Lee Wilson
As I have stated time and time again, if a protective coating does not stick to the s...
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by Warren Brand
When I was nine or 10, my summers were spent with gun-toting workmen, driving around ...
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by Warren Brand
In coatings, as in every other profession, you can go by the book or you can go with ...
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by Warren Brand
It takes an enormous amount to get under my skin. But I just attended a conference fo...
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by Lee Wilson
As we are well aware, many factors can and do cause premature coating failure. The us...
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by Lee Wilson
Inspectors and others in the protective-coatings field often ask me which is “better”...
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by Lee Wilson
I recently returned from inspecting a high-profile gas plant being developed by a maj...
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by Warren Brand
So, I get a call from the manager of a tony high-rise condo on Chicago’s Gold Coast.
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by Warren Brand
Over 30 years in the industry, I’ve been on most sides of many paint issues. I’ve own...
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by Warren Brand
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by Warren Brand
It all started over coffee with a friend. I had wondered to Dean, a coating rep, how ...
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by Warren Brand
We are in the process of getting a water tank—85 feet in diameter and roughly 80 feet...
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by Warren Brand
Thanks to everyone for reading, thinking about and commenting on my last blog on the ...
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by Simon Hope
Life is great, things progress, and every day a shiny new techno-toy arrives to make ...
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by Simon Hope
Having dispensed with human competence, can we hope for any better from its inanimate...
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by Tim Race
Ever hear anyone state with great authority that you can't know what surface preparat...
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by Karen Kapsanis
I have been trying to write this little essay for weeks, but I keep getting interrupt...
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by Simon Hope
One of the eternal problems that our industry grapples with is defining the differenc...
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by Tim Race
Tap ... tap ... tap ... Between the years of 1660 and 1664, my ninth great-gra...
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by Tim Race
In 1973, I was playing baseball for Parkside High School Eagles with Tony Dungy. That...
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