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PPG Supplies DURANAR and DURACRON Metal Coatings for Port of Miami Tunnel
PPG Industries’ coil and building products group has supplied
DURANAR XL and DURACRON coatings to the recently opened
Port of Miami Tunnel, which is made up of two 4,200-foot-long
highway tunnels that travel under Biscayne Bay, connecting the
MacArthur Causeway on Watson Island to the Port of Miami on
Dodge Island.
Duranar XL coating—specified by Arquitectonica, the Miami-based architectural firm that designed the tunnels—is a three-part coating system consisting of a urethane primer coat, a
decorative color coat and a protective fluoropolymer clearcoat.
Arquitectonica selected Duranar XL Crystal Blue coating to cover the 4,000 metal panels lining both sets of tunnel walls.
Phil Buhr, PPG product manager, coil and building products
group, said the selection of Duranar XL coating for a transporta-
tion project is unusual but makes sense for the Port of Miami
tunnels. “As a high-end coating system, Duranar XL coating is
more commonly specified for monumental architectural proj-
ects and storefronts that demand long-term colorfastness, gloss
retention and chalk resistance,” he said. “All of those perfor-
mance factors and the ease of cleaning made Duranar XL coat-
ing an ideal choice for a high-visibility project like this, where the
architect and project owners were determined to find a coating
that would look good even after decades of constant exposure
to humidity, salt air and automobile exhaust.”
The solid aluminum plate panels and the hidden lattice-like
framework behind them were fabricated by Metalwërks, Ken-
nett Square, Pennsylvania, a product manufacturer and specialty
contractor of architectural metal cladding and ornamental metal.
The decorative panels were painted by Precoat Metal, St. Louis,
and the lattice work was painted by Spectrum Metal Finishing,
Youngstown, Ohio, a member of the PPG CAP CERTIFIED AP-
PLICATOR PROGRAM group. Duracron acrylic extrusion coat-
ings by PPG were applied to most of the lattice work to provide
a durable system for the large-panel mounts. Bouygues Civil
Works Florida (BCWF), Miami, was the design-build contractor.
The Port of Miami Tunnel is a $667 million project that incorporates three distinct components. In addition to the twin
underwater tunnels, which opened to traffic Aug. 3, the project
includes improved connections to the Port of Miami roadway
system as well as widening and realignment of the MacArthur
Causeway Bridge to provide direct access between Miami’s seaport and the Interstate 95 and Interstate 395 highways. As many
as 16,000 vehicles are expected to travel through the tunnels
each month.
Photo courtesy of PPG
