The Professional's Complete Manual of Parking Structure Rehabilitation and Deck Management: Condition Assessment, Repair Prioritization, Protective ... Cost Optimization for Parking Facilities

That Spall You Ignored Last Quarter Is Getting Worse Right Now. Parking structures fail quietly. A hairline crack becomes a delamination. A clogged drain becomes a slab saturated with chlorides. A patched joint becomes a reinforcing bar pitted beyond reuse. By the time a spall drops onto a sedan or a bay gets closed to the public, the repair bill has tripled and the lawyers are taking calls. This manual keeps that window from opening at your facility. Knowing Concrete Is Not the Same as Running a Rehab Program. You have the engineering background. You have the budget pressure. You have owners, tenants, and an insurance underwriter all expecting answers. What you do not have is a single operations-first reference that ties condition assessment, deterioration diagnosis, repair prioritization, material selection, coatings, contracting, construction oversight, preventive maintenance, and lifecycle cost into one playbook. Scattered standards and vendor brochures will not save your deck. Doing nothing is how garages end up on the news. An Operations-First Manual for the Four People Responsible for the Deck. Written for facility managers, structural engineers, contractors, and asset managers, this guide translates ACI 562, ACI 362.2R, ICRI technical guidelines, and ASTM protocols into numbered Standard Operating Procedures, decision logic blocks, escalation paths, scoring rubrics, and completed sample documents you can drop into your next project tomorrow morning. Ten Chapters. Four Appendices. Built for the Work You Actually Do. - Foundations: lifecycle mapping, stakeholder roles, and the rehabilitate-versus-replace framework - Condition assessment procedures, visual inspection, NDT selection, and laboratory analysis - Deterioration diagnosis: chloride ingress, carbonation, freeze-thaw damage, ASR, and post-tensioning failures - Repair prioritization scoring, phased capital planning, and board-ready business cases - Repair materials, surface preparation, placement methods, and quality control - Protective coatings, penetrating sealers, vehicular traffic membranes, and waterproofing systems - Bid documents, contractor prequalification, and specification language that holds up at closeout - Construction management, inspection hold points, daily logs, and punch-list procedures - Preventive maintenance programs, washdown cycles, and performance metrics that get tracked - Lifecycle cost modeling, reserve fund strategy, renewal scheduling, and portfolio benchmarking Standards-Aligned. Field-Proven. Written for the Deck, Not the Lecture Hall. Every chapter is grounded in industry standards and the decisions you face on a Tuesday morning with a wet slab, a concerned owner on the phone, and a contractor on site. Appendix A gives you sample templates across every phase. Appendix B sets documentation and reporting standards. Appendix C is the subject index. Appendix D is the technical glossary. The Concerns We Hear, and Why They Do Not Hold. Too technical? Each chapter opens with a plain-language summary and closes with a quick-reference checklist. Too generic for my facility type? Every procedure names the test method, the pass-fail threshold, and the document trail. No time to read cover to cover? Role-based reading paths tell facility managers, engineers, contractors, and owners which sections apply. Open to Any Chapter. Put It to Work This Morning. Flip to your current project phase and pull the template, the SOP, or the checklist you need. First-session win: a defensible condition rating and a prioritized repair list ready for your next board meeting. Order Your Copy and Protect the Asset Under Your Care.