Your parking lot is one of the first things customers notice when they arrive at your business. Whether you manage a car dealership or a retail property, a well-maintained concrete lot creates a strong first impression and supports overall safety, accessibility, and ADA compliance in 2025.
Like any part of your property, concrete surfaces deteriorate over time. Cracks, uneven slabs, and surface damage often develop gradually—but when left unchecked, they can become safety hazards and lead to costly repairs.
The good news is that most major issues are preventable with consistent upkeep. Below are practical tips to help you care for your...
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2025-04-10Updated: 2025-05-13 Strengthening Technologies
Revitalize Your Concrete
2024-03-15Updated: 2024-06-20 Strengthening Technologies
Epoxy injection is a specialized repair technique used to mend cracks in concrete structures, effectively restoring their original strength and integrity. This process involves injecting an epoxy resin—a high-strength adhesive—into cracks under pressure, ensuring the resin fully penetrates and fills the voids within the concrete.
Once cured, the epoxy forms a bond that is often stronger than the concrete itself, sealing the crack against moisture and contaminants and rebonding the cracked sections.
Principles Behind Its Effectiveness
Penetration and Bonding Epoxy resins have excellent adhesive properties and low viscosity options, allowing them to penetrate deeply into fine cracks, creating a...
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Essential Concrete Parking Lot Maintenance Tasks
2022-06-16Updated: 2025-05-13 Strengthening Technologies
Concrete parking lots at car dealerships, retail centers, and commercial properties face year-round wear from high traffic, weather exposure, and chemical spills. Consistent, proactive maintenance not only improves appearance and safety but also prevents costly repairs and liability risks.
Strengthening Technologies has repaired hundreds of concrete parking lots nationwide, helping businesses extend the lifespan of their surfaces and maintain a professional, safe environment for both drivers and pedestrians.
Our experienced team addresses everything from post-tension repair and epoxy injections to barrier cable systems, spalling repair, and slab stabilization. Whether it's surface cracks, curb deterioration, or stormwater drainage issues—routine care is the...
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Why A Crack Can Be A Sign Of A Bigger Problem
2022-01-19Updated: 2024-06-20 Strengthening Technologies
At Strengthening Technologies, we are the nationwide experts in all types of concrete repairs. A concrete slab often develops cracks over time, and this type of foundation damage can happen for multiple reasons. Concrete repair of cracks in slabs and foundations is crucial for three reasons in residential and commercial buildings.
Cracks in a Concrete Slab Indicate Other Problems
There is always an underlying reason for the problem when a slab cracks. These reasons include:
Improper initial construction of the slab, such as insufficient or deteriorating steel reinforcement in the concrete
Poor drainage or leaks in pipes around the concrete slab or foundation beams,...
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When The Epoxy Injection Method Works Best
2021-12-27Updated: 2024-06-20 Strengthening Technologies
If you find cracks in a concrete commercial structure you own, you're likely to feel concerned about the situation. Cracks in concrete look unattractive, can pose a potential trip hazard if they are in a floor, and can cause people using the structure to wonder if the building is safe. In some cases, cracks can indicate serious underlying problems.
At Strengthening Technologies, repairing concrete is our specialty.
However, cracks developing in concrete are primarily an aesthetic issue in other situations. Many types of cracks in concrete structures can be successfully and economically repaired using various epoxy products. However, it's crucial to evaluate...
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What Makes This Method The Best For Concrete Repairs
2021-11-17Updated: 2024-06-20 Strengthening Technologies
Post-tensioning is a concrete reinforcing method that is superior to strengthening with rebar alone. Since the 1950s, contractors and engineers have designed and built new buildings using post-tensioning methods.
However, post-tension is a concrete strengthening technique that can also be used to repair existing concrete structures, and it is our number one specialty at Strengthening Technologies.
Here are five reasons for considering post-tension building methods when constructing or repairing your concrete structure.
Lower Costs of Repairs
Post-tensioned concrete uses steel cables embedded inside the concrete or installed externally to strengthen concrete slabs, beams, and columns. The wires are pulled into tension after the concrete...
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Keeping Your Structure Up To Code
2021-05-07Updated: 2024-06-20 Strengthening Technologies
If you own or manage a parking garage, preventing pedestrian and vehicle fall accidents is a top priority. You also want the structure to look attractive and be easy to maintain. The solution is a cost-effective barrier cable system installed by an expert in this type of construction, such as Strengthening Technologies.
Barrier Cables Explained
No doubt, you have seen barrier cables many times, perhaps without even realizing it. This type of safety structure is quite common in parking garages for pedestrian and vehicular safety. You’ll also see barrier cables on highways installed between lanes of traffic.
In parking garages, barrier cable systems...
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