An interesting flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.Foundation Maintenance and Repair
PREVENTIVEMAINTENANCE
PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE
Amazingly, they knew it would happen all along.
Structural concrete — foundation walls, footings, slabs, and below-grade systems — is the most neglected maintenance category in commercial facilities. It’s rarely inspected until damage has already escalated into a major repair, often costing well into six figures and rarely addressing the root cause.
Here’s what deferred maintenance actually costs:
Preventive maintenance — inspections, crack sealing, joint repair, protective coatings — runs $1 to $5 per square foot.
Reactive structural repair — concrete rehabilitation, corrosion remediation, foundation stabilization — runs $15 to $50 per square foot.
Full-depth structural replacement — when the damage has gone too far — runs $30 to $100+ per square foot.
On a 20,000-square-foot facility, that’s the difference between a $40,000 maintenance program and a $600,000 emergency. And the repair bill is only half the story. Facility downtime — tenant displacement, halted production, lost revenue, regulatory holds, rerouted operations — often exceeds the cost of the physical repair. Every day your building is out of service costs you in revenue, lease obligations, and the kind of operational disruption that doesn’t show up on the invoice but hits your bottom line harder than the contractor’s bill.
Most building and property managers don’t include concrete condition assessment or waterproofing evaluation in their maintenance programs. That’s how a $2-per-square-foot crack seal becomes a $40-per-square-foot structural rebuild — and a planned two-day service visit becomes a three-month emergency project.
Foundation Technology recommends structural concrete inspections at least once every ten years — and every other year for high-traffic, below-grade, or water-exposed structures. A proactive maintenance plan keeps repair costs predictable instead of catastrophic — and keeps your facility open for business
- Maintenance Inspections
- Crack Inspections
- Corrosion Mapping
- Vibration/Crack Monitoring
- Settlement Monitoring
- Structural Risk Assessment
- Pressure Washing/Cleaning
- Positive/Negative Waterproofing
- Corrosion Protection
- Painting
- High wear coatings
- 100% Water containment coatings
- Chemical Resistance Coatings
- Crack Injection
- 100% Water-Stop Solutions
Water doesn’t announce itself. Waterproofing systems fail behind walls, beneath slabs, and inside joints — where corrosion has been working for years before it shows up as a visible leak, a rust stain, or a spalling ceiling in your parking structure. By the time the damage is obvious, the repair scope has already multiplied.
Design professionals and facility managers rarely receive early warning. Most waterproofing failures aren’t reported until structural damage is well underway — and by that point, the fix requires significantly more than patching the visible symptom.
Foundation Technology eliminates water intrusion at the source — not just where it surfaces. Effective waterproofing often demands a combination of systems: polyurethane and acrylate injection through floors and walls, positive and negative-side barrier applications, crystalline saturation coatings, topical membranes, and when conditions require it, active water management through extraction pumps and educator wells. Some projects require multiple phases of investigation and treatment to locate and seal every intrusion pathway.
The goal isn’t to manage water. It’s to stop it — and to reverse the corrosive damage before it compromises your structure, your operations, or your budget.
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The repair you need today will cost less than the emergency you’ll face tomorrow. Foundation Technology’s sales engineers are standing by to evaluate your foundation or concrete issue, determine the most effective repair method, and provide a comprehensive proposal with scope, timeline, and pricing. Don’t wait for a small problem to become a shutdown.
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