Catalana Occidente Head Office, Sant Cugat del Vallès, Spain
Following our work on its main head office, Catalana Occidente again called upon our team for this new project. The building’s fair-faced concrete facades were showing defects in prefabricated elements due to rebar corrosion. Our work involved cleaning wall surfaces, treating damaged areas, repairing and passivating or replacing rebars, recovering volumes with high-strength, low-shrinkage thixotropic mortars, renewing sealing between elements, and weatherproofing surfaces and blending colors with mineral glazing techniques. Other exterior conservation and improvement work included the installation of lacquered aluminum profiles with drip edges and the restoration, protection, and painting of metal doors and railings.