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Nawkaw Southeast
Nawkaw Southeast was honored by the American Concrete Institute’s Georgia Chapter for participation on a high-rise concrete restoration project in downtown Atlanta. The firm submitted the project last year for the ACI Awards Competition and walked away with First Place in the Restoration Category. This year the project was submitted under the contracting company, with mention of Nawkaw’s concrete staining, and won first place again.
The exterior surfaces of the high-rise building were constructed of exposed river-rock aggregate consolidated concrete walls. After years of pollution buildup, the building’s bare spots began to contrast unevenly and unattractively with the concrete surface.
Maintaining the character of the original building, Nawkaw Southeast presented a solution that included a stain wash to imitate the river rock using the company’s proprietary NWRT-91 product. Not only did the river rock become more vibrant with cleaning and staining, but areas that were void of rock now appear abundant with the aggregate. Templates were designed to replicate the river rock pattern in concrete, a process that involved strict matching of scale and texture to the existing river rock. Nawkaw stained almost 70,000 square feet of consolidated concrete surfaces, and the project took 6 months to complete.
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