Hurricane Sandy Cleanup
The total job is 150,000 square-feet (13,935 m²), and each of the 15
basement floors had to be drained of floodwater and then prepped
using various grinders and shot blasters before they could be recoated.
The crew, which is working over the course of 15 weeks, is applying
12,000 linear feet (3,658 m) of 4-inch (10 cm) seamless cove base
around the exterior walls. Some areas are even being tiled after that.
pumping equipment could be brought in to fully drain the tens
of thousands of square feet of fooded basements.
According to Koerner, "entire basements were flled to the
top with water, and in some cases, the water reached the frst
foor as well. Te water sat for so long that the foors came up on
their own, and what was left was removed by demo contractors.
We came in and ground what remained down to the slab."
With a crew of 10 full-time workers broken up into teams
of three to four, depending on the day, Manhattan Concrete
Design is still working on three to four buildings at a time
to complete the project with an estimated completion date
of February 2014. Te rehabilitation steps are laborious,
especially considering the risk of contaminants from both the
receding water and soil beneath the slab, which, at the time of
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