ARTS COMPLEX CASE STUDY
Denver Performing Arts Complex, restored without a lift.
Decades of exhaust soot and bird droppings had settled on the complex's glass and white decorative beams, above stone walkways too delicate for a lift. We cleaned them from the air with hot water at high pressure, 70 feet up, and kept heavy machinery off the walkways.
THE JOB
The job at a glance.
- Client
- Denver Performing Arts Complex, Denver, Colorado
- Venue
- Buell Theatre
- Areas cleaned
- The glass facade and the decorative metal beams
- The challenge
- Decades of soot, bird droppings and fragile walkways
- Our solution
- Hot water, high-pressure drone cleaning
- Reach Capability
- 70 ft
- Applied Weight
- 55 lb or less
- Dirt Buildup
- 20 yrs.
The height we cleaned, the most weight we put on the stone walkways and the years of buildup we took off.
THE CHALLENGE
Soot overhead, fragile stone underfoot.
The Denver Performing Arts Complex is a cultural cornerstone of the city, and its architecture made upkeep hard. Under an overhead skylight and close to busy roadways, its glass and decorative metal beams had become a trap for decades of vehicle exhaust and soot, and heavy bird activity had left droppings across the metal.
The bigger obstacle was the ground. Delicate stone walkways run through the complex with a snow-melt system just beneath the surface. A boom lift or a crane risked crushing the heating elements and cracking the stone, so heavy machinery was ruled out from the start.
The complex needed a way to reach high glass with no heavy equipment on the walkways.
OUR SOLUTION
Hot water, behind and between the beams.
We were selected in a competitive bid, in part for our experience with high-profile Denver landmarks: we had already cleaned the former Stapleton control tower, now FlyteCo Tower, and the Denver Coliseum.
For the stubborn, baked-on soot and droppings we flew hot water at high pressure. The heat broke down the organic waste and the industrial oils far more effectively than cold water alone.
Our pilots flew the aircraft behind and between the decorative beams and hit the glass at precise angles a traditional window crew could not reach, with 55 pounds or less applied to the walkways.
THE RESULTS
Clean glass, intact stone.
The facade was transformed. The glass and the metal came out in pristine, brand-new condition, and the work stayed within the project's budget.
Most important, the structure came through uncompromised. Working from the air kept heavy machinery off the fragile stone walkways and the snow-melt system beneath them, and the complex avoided the costly repairs a lift could have caused.
We left the complex a clean, welcoming gateway for Denver's arts community.
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