Ryan Biggs Clark Davis provided a walking inspection of the top floor of the North Parking Garage Structure at Albany International Airport. The Parking Garage is five stories consisting of one at-grade and four elevated parking levels. The parking garage superstructure is constructed of precast-prestressed concrete and consists of double tee floor framing members supported on inverted tee beams which span between square concrete columns.
It was determined that the upper level had issues that needed to be remedied and that comprised the garage’s structural integrity. These included: failed anchorages at connection points of the strand wire safety rails; cracked/split caulking joints between double tee beams; cracked/peeling spandrel caulking joints; cracked/peeled double tee to window wall joints; worn/delaminated traffic overlay; surface cracks and spalls; post-installed caulking has failed or corroded at lift points; and the expansion joints in several locations appeared to be nearing the end of their serviceable lives. We provided Design, Bid, and Construction Phase services for the implementation of the repair and maintenance recommendations provided in our initial investigation. The intent of the project was to improve water collection and drainage and to mitigate water leakage onto lower levels of the structure.
