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Title: Extreme Concrete Exposure

Author(s): Laurel Dovich

Publication: Concrete International

Volume: 36

Issue: 5

Appears on pages(s): 37-40

Keywords: construction, repair, overlay, seawall

DOI:

Date: 5/1/2014

Abstract:
St. Ouen’s Bay takes up almost the entire western side of Jersey, an island within the archipelago known as the Channel Islands. The shoreline of the bay is protected by a concrete wall that was originally designed and constructed as an antitank barrier during the Second World War. Near the beginning of the twenty-first century, the wall was evaluated and repaired. The seawall’s history, deterioration, maintenance, and repair are discussed