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Market Vertical: Civil Infrastructure: Coatings & Surface Preparation

Track: Coating Materials
Technical Session

Coatings 101: Materials, Operations, and More (Part I of II)

Wednesday, March 18, 2026
8:00 AM - 12:00 PM Central
Location: 371 AB

The session will provide an overview of industrial protective coatings,including design considerations, material selection, surface preparation guides, ambient conditions, and basic quality control techniques. What participants will attain out of this course is a basic understanding of how protective coatings are specified and applied to meet the goals of a project. We will review and present typical inspection instruments used on a paint project, surface preparation guides, how to read a product data sheet, and how to measure ambient conditions.

Presentations:

  • 8:00 AM - 8:30 AM Central
    Measuring Surface Roughness

    Presenter: Neil Pittman – Lake Superior Consulting

  • 8:30 AM - 9:00 AM Central
    Internal Pipe Lining

    Presenter: Miles Venzara – United Pipeline Systems

  • 9:00 AM - 9:30 AM Central
    Chemical Vapor-Deposited Coatings Enhance Anti-Fouling and Corrosion Resistance of Heat Exchangers and Process Instrumentation

    Presenter: Luke Patterson – SilcoTek Corp

  • 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM Central
    Breaking the Corrosion Cycle: Why It's Time for a Coating Revolution

    Presenter: Sunil Kulkarni

  • 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM Central
    Building Resilience: Wastewater Pretreatment and Coating Strategies for Food, Beverage, and Pharma Facilities

    Presenter: Heather Stiner – The Sherwin-Williams Company

    Co-Presenter: Steven Roetter – The Sherwin-Williams Company

  • 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Central
    The challenges with fireproofing selection materials for brownfield HPI projects and a proposed innovative solution.

    Presenter: James Meier

  • 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM Central
    Optimization and validation of epoxy passive fire protection structural steel design solutions for enhanced sustainability

    Presenter: Robin Wade

  • 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM Central
    Investigating the long-term anti-corrosion property of epoxy coatings via hydrothermal ageing

    Presenter: Mark Joseph Pasciolco – The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology