SSPC Publishes New Compilation on Planning and
Specifying Coating Projects
Pittsburgh--SSPC: The Society for Protective Coatings
has published a new compilation titled Planning
and Specifying Industrial Protective Coating Projects. This new
246-page softcover combines excerpts from SSPC's Good
Painting Practice, The
Inspection of Coatings and Linings, and other publications together
with a collection of related SSPC standards, guides and specifications.
It is meant to provide a convenient source of
information and guidance to owners, specifiers, contractors,
and others responsible for planning, managing, and conducting
industrial protective coating operations.
 The
new Planning
and Specifying Industrial Protective Coating Projects is not intended
to be a do-it-yourself guide to coating projects, nor
does it provide detailed information on coating projects for
a specific type of facility or structure. Instead, its aim
is to offer a general overview of topics, procedures, and conditions
that are typically addressed during the development and
execution of an
industrial protective coating plan. Individual chapters discuss
the design of total protective coatings programs, comparative painting
costs, the use of plant surveys
to maintain coating
protection, maintenance coating programs, the preparation and
review of coating project specifications, quality control
for protective coating projects,
inspection plans, and more.
The new Planning
and Specifying Industrial Protective Coating Projects also contains
a select group of SSPC standards, guides,
and specifications referenced by the other chapters.
They include the SSPC standards for shop, field, and maintenance
painting (PA 1), and measurement
of dry coating thickness (PA 2); the SSPC guide to
maintenance painting programs (PA 5); the SSPC standard procedures
for evaluating field painting contractors (QP 1), shop painting
contractors (QP 3), and coating and lining inspection companies
(QP 5); the joint SSPC/NACE technical report on the preparation
of coating specifications (TR 4/NACE
80200); and the SSPC technology updates on overcoating (TU
3) and estimating costs for coatings
projects
(TU 9).
The book's appendices include the chapter "Economics
of Corrosion Control" from Corrosion
and Coatings: An Introduction to Corrosion for Coatings Personnel;
Dr. Richard W. Drisko's frequently cited paper "Total Protective
Coatings Program" from Technologies
for a Diverse Industry: The Proceedings of the SSPC '96 Seminars;
a bibliography of books, papers, articles, standards,
and other documents; plus a list and brief description
of every other SSPC standard, guide, specification,
technical report, and technology update mentioned throughout
the compilation.
Since it was established in 1950, SSPC has issued well over
100 different reference books, research reports, conference
proceedings, technical manuals, and other publications, in
addition to over
150 standards, guides, specifications and other consensus documents.
Many are mentioned in the
bibliography found in the new Planning
and Specifying Industrial Protective Coating Projects.
In a
sense, all of these publications and
standards were designed to assist those who plan, specify,
and manage coating projects. However, an attempt
to distill this encyclopedia of information into one useable
book, while certainly worthwhile, would probably be
unfeasible. Instead, SSPC decided on a more practical approach
by taking related chapters from several of its best selling
titles, combining them with the applicable SSPC standards,
and putting them all together in a single, convenient
resource publication. Putting the excerpts side by side
with the standards they reference not only helps to clarify
the text, it
also helps place the standards in a practical context. Other
compilations of this type include the new Guides
on Environmental Protection and the recent Surface
Preparation and Coating of Concrete.
How to Order
The new Planning
and Specifying Industrial Protective Coating Projects is now in
stock. Until December 31, 2004, it will sell for $57.00
to SSPC members and $85.50 to non-members. After
December 31, 2004, it will sell for $66.50 to members
and $95.00 to non-members. To place an order, or to obtain
further information, please
contact the SSPC Publications Sales
Office by phone at 1-877 281-7772 (toll-free within the USA)
or 1-412-281-2331 (from outside the USA); by fax at 1-412-281-9992;
or by email at books@sspc.org.
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and Specifying Industrial Protective Coating Projects is also among the many
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