Protect Your Foundation from Structural Damage

When the bottom floor of a building requires temperatures to be below freezing, (e.g., refrigerated warehouses, freezer storage facilities, ice-skating rinks), the soil underneath that building is vulnerable to freezing as well. When soil freezes, it can wreak havoc on the foundation of a building, causing stress, heaving and possible permanent structural damage.

Safety and Cost Savings

When Uponor’s Permafrost Prevention System is installed underneath a freezer building, the foundation is protected from freeze damage and the building’s occupants, in turn, are protected by a strong, sound structure. Additionally, permafrost prevention can eliminate costly foundation repairs. Protecting a building with a permafrost prevention system ensures the structure will never encounter cracks, stress fractures or any type of structural compromise from freezing.

 Key Benefits

  • Maintains a continuous soil temperature to ensure a stable and reliable surface for a building’s foundation
  • Keeps foundations solid and strong by preventing stress, heaving and cracking due to freezing soil
  • Protects soil from frost, permafrost and freezing without compromising the necessary freezing temperatures of the building
  • Provides a stronger corrosion resistance for rebar
  • Offers high durability and long life to a building’s subfloor in severe temperature environments

 Typical Permafrost Prevention Applications

Commercial Applications:  Freezer storage facilities, Coolers, Chill coolers, and Refrigerated warehouses

Recreational Facilities:  Ice-skating rinks

Typical Permafrost Prevention Installations

 


 

 

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