SOLUTION

The project team turned to the Krystol® Concrete Waterproofing System, developed by Kryton a worldwide leader in crystalline waterproofing technology. The team wanted to avoid using a traditional membrane system because it is costly, labor intensive and vulnerable to human error.

Kryton’s distributor in Italy, System & Project recommended  the Krystol® waterproofing system, which was applied internally in the 1m (3.28ft) thick base slab, in all the perimeter walls and the ground-level plaza deck

The project team also used the Krystol® Waterstop System, an advanced joint design system that provides both chemical and physical waterproofing barriers to be used in all the cold joints of all the slab-to-wall joints. In following the original specifications, the project team took the precautionary step of applying Krystol® Waterstop System in conjunction with bentonite strips on all slab-to-slab and wall-to-wall joints.

By utilizing Krystol® to protect the concrete, the team not only had the world’s leading crystalline waterproofing technology to protect the structure, but one that also saved a substantial amount of time and money over installing a traditional membrane system.

The Krystol® system is an integral, permanent part of the concrete and allows the owner to save the life cycle costs that are included with the eventual reapplication of a traditional membrane system.

The Krystol® Concrete Waterproofing System at the Piazza Leonardo Da Vinci included 20,000kg (44,092lbs) of Krystol® Internal Membrane (KIM), an admixture suitable for new concrete construction, in 2500m³ (88,286.666ft³) of concrete.  Hundreds of lineal meters of Krystol® Waterstop System were also applied.

LOCATION
Brescia, Italy

OWNER
Comune di Salo (Province of Brescia)

CONTRACTOR
Atig Bresciana Construzioni s.r.l.

APPLICATOR
A.R.T.I.M. di Alessandro Rebussi

ENGINEER
Ing. Luigi Buffoli and Ing. Guiseppe Turotti

ARCHITECT
Bosetti e Bosetti s.r.l. and Architeto Francesco Valente

DISTRIBUTOR
System & Project s.r.l.