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... 16 Some airport hubs have annual budgets set aside for repair and maintenance projects of their parking structures. Eight out of the 12 airports surveyed have established budgets for renewal ranging from $45,000 for cleaning, signage replacement, and minor repairs, to $5,000,000 for replacing deteriorated caulk joints.
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... 17 allows a deterioration curve to be developed by plotting the annual renewal costs versus time. Knowing where the parking structure is on the deterioration curve helps the engineer to design and plan a proactive renewal program.
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... 18 The repair industry is also becoming more adept at extending the anticipated service life of structures. New methods such as passive cathodic protection for embedded reinforcement bars have become readily available and successfully implemented in large restoration projects (18, 19)
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... 19 tion indicated that the continual demand for concrete slab repair could be mitigated with full slab replacement. A 20-year cost analysis was performed comparing full slab replacement with the ongoing slab repair at five-year intervals.

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