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FRP Carbon Wrapping

Kaduna 2023

Project Overview

Combined carbon fiber wrapping and carbon laminate strengthening for the Nigerian Railway Station (NRS) in Kaduna. The intervention restored structural capacity to beams and columns affected by deterioration and increased loading.

Scope of Work

Structural capacity assessment
Carbon wrapping of columns
Carbon laminate bonding of beams
Final inspection and documentation

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Site Gallery

Photographs from the FRP Carbon Wrapping works on site.

Technician bonding carbon fibre fabric to a column at NRS Kaduna

Crew applying epoxy and wrapping carbon fabric around a concrete column

Exposed column and beam with reinforcement prepared for strengthening

Wrapped and finished columns across the station floor plate

Operatives applying protective coating to a strengthened column

Team cutting a chase in the soffit for carbon laminate installation

Concrete breakout around a column ahead of repair works

Prepared beam and column faces after removal of defective concrete

Operatives breaking out deteriorated concrete from a beam soffit

Crew wrapping carbon fibre fabric around the base of a primed column

Two operatives stretching carbon fabric around a column base

Operative scabbling a slab soffit from a scaffold platform

Engineer grinding a beam face in preparation for strengthening

Worker cutting back defective concrete on a column with a reciprocating saw

Completed carbon fibre wrapped beam running along the ceiling

Underside view of a beam fully wrapped in carbon fibre fabric

Technician bonding carbon fibre sheet to a beam soffit

Team installing carbon fabric to a beam from working platforms

Operatives consolidating carbon fibre wrap along a strengthened beam

FRP Carbon Wrapping of Columns

Repair of Basement Beam & Columns