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Every wall, column and entry feature we seal is a stack of parts that each have a job, from a screen wall up to a curved steel entry that spans a whole street. Pick a detail, pull it apart with the slider and drag to turn it.

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    Steel sports court covers: curved steel frames over tennis, padel and pickleball courts.

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    Illustrations for explanation. Sizes, bars and materials on a real job come from the sealed plans for that job.

    Parts list for each detail

    Stone and mortar gravity wall

    1. Stone base with toe and heel
    2. Battered face stone
    3. Fully mortared zone
    4. Tightly fitted stone core
    5. Back stones, irregular back face
    6. Cap stone
    7. Weep pipes
    8. Drainage zone
    9. Filter fabric around drainage zone
    10. Compacted soil below weep pipe
    11. Clay cap from onsite soils
    12. Retained soil
    13. Final grade per civil
    14. Fence if required

    Brick thinwall screen wall

    1. Drilled concrete piers
    2. Pier cages
    3. Pier hook bars
    4. Pier caps and grade beam
    5. Beam and pier cap reinforcing
    6. Carton void form
    7. Single wythe thin brick panel
    8. Joint reinforcement
    9. Major column CMU cores
    10. Column vertical bars
    11. Stone veneer on the major columns
    12. Minor brick columns
    13. Caps

    Entry monument sign wall

    1. Grade beam footing
    2. Void boxes
    3. Drilled concrete piers
    4. Pier cages
    5. Pier hook bars
    6. Footing reinforcing
    7. Vertical bars in grouted cells
    8. CMU core
    9. Natural stone veneer
    10. Veneer ties
    11. Sign panel and letters
    12. Cast stone caps

    Overhead entry feature

    1. Spread footings
    2. Footing and pedestal reinforcing
    3. Concrete pedestals
    4. Steel posts
    5. Post-to-truss connections
    6. Gusset and splice plates
    7. Top and bottom chords
    8. Side web diagonals
    9. Plan bracing
    10. Verticals and struts

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