– PROJECT REVIEW PAINTING
UHS Central Power
Industrial Power Facility
University Health System’s power plant needed painting most commercial subs won’t touch. Pipes, mechanical equipment, and infrastructure, all inside an active utility facility.
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The 36-inch cool water return piping, coated in industrial epoxy, San Antonio.
Scope: 36-inch piping, sprinkler pipes, doors, CMU walls, industrial coatings.
The build at a glance
♦ What we did
This was coatings work, not commercial painting. The crew coated the facility’s 36-inch cool water return piping, sprinkler pipes, doors, and CMU walls using industrial-grade systems: Macropoxy epoxy, Acrolon 218 urethane, and two-component A and B epoxies specified to hold up in a power plant environment.
Product knowledge is half the job on a project like this. Each surface got the right system for what it is, steel pipe, block wall, or door, applied to spec across a facility where the substrate changes every few feet.
♦ The Challenges
There is no drywall rhythm on a job like this. Every run of pipe, every piece of equipment, every access point is its own problem. Two-component epoxies have pot life limits and recoat windows, so sequencing has to be planned, not improvised. The crew worked the facility from January through completion and everything came out as anticipated. Most painting contractors pass on this work because the production math doesn’t look like a commercial interior. Travis took it on and delivered.
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