Expansion Joint Specialists London
With more than 50 years of experience in civil engineering, Vision Specialist Contracting specialises in providing high-quality expansion joints. These are essential for managing movement in critical infrastructure, and ensuring the structural integrity of buildings and constructions over time. We offer a range of high-performance solutions, each designed for specific applications:
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Zenflex J-Series
Zenflex J-Series is the epitome of exceptional joint design. Celebrated for its adaptability, resilience, and unrivalled performance, it’s an ideal fit for structures demanding high flexibility and robustness against environmental factors. Our skilled team of expansion joint specialists in London and Essex ensures that your Zenflex J-Series joints are expertly installed and maintained, fostering the seamless operation of your infrastructure.
Quickseal
Quickseal expansion joints, known for their rapid installation and immediate usability, offer unrivalled resistance to chemicals, water, and abrasion. As your trusted expansion joint contractors in Southend, we guarantee the quick and proficient installation of Quickseal joints, enriching the functionality of your structures with zero delays.
Uniflex
Uniflex expansion joints are commended for their extraordinary flexibility and durability. These joints are perfect for structures that undergo significant movement or temperature changes. Our Essex-based team excels in deploying Uniflex joints, ensuring they perform optimally while preserving the structural integrity of your facilities.
500 Series
For heavy-duty applications, the 500 Series expansion joints offer unparalleled durability and strength. Capable of withstanding extreme loads and temperature fluctuations, these joints promise lasting reliability. Our expansion joint specialists in London are proficient in installing and maintaining 500 Series joints, guaranteeing their top-tier function and durability.
EMR
The EMR Expansion Joint System is a mechanical marvel, with a central elastomeric seal inserted into two steel carrier rails. This surface mounted solution excels in cost-effectiveness and has a broad range of applications. Our technicians’ extensive training ensures professional installation and maintenance.
APJ
Asphaltic Plug Joints (APJs) are a type of bridge expansion joint that serve as a simple, all-purpose expansion device for bridges. The joint is made up of an asphalt concrete plug and a rubber sealant. Our professional team has extensive experience in installing and maintaining APJ systems, ensuring their safe operation.
Elastomeric
The Doshin rubber bridge expansion joint comprises of a steel angle and bridging plate system, enclosed in a flexible elastomer. It sustains up to 330mm of loads and movements without harming the surface or supporting structure, and also provides excellent riding quality.
Comprehensive Range of Services
We offer a variety of expansion joint services, including installation, repair, and maintenance of Zenflex J-Series, Quickseal, Uniflex, and 500 Series joints. Whether you need support for a new project or ongoing maintenance for an existing one, Vision Specialist Contracting is your trusted partner in Colchester.
Contact our Expansion Joints Specialists Today
At Vision Specialist Contracting, we focus on delivering a high degree of versatility with dynamic solutions. Rest assured, our work is customised to meet your unique needs and conditions.
For a dependable and professional service that optimises the efficiency and lifespan of your infrastructure, choose Vision Specialist Contracting. Let’s discuss your expansion joint requirements today. Get in touch with us and start your journey towards stronger, longer-lasting infrastructure.
Buried Highway Joints
Sentinel B Type 1 joints feature a reinforced elastomeric central membrane that integrates seamlessly with Eliminator waterproofing. This synergy ensures full waterproofing capabilities while accommodating a movement range of 5–20mm.
- The system is easy and quick to install compared to separate components, potentially reducing your construction timelines by 7–10 days.
- With gap widths of up to 50mm, expected highway shifts over decades are well catered for.
- The buried highway system is versatile and suitable for both new construction and rehabilitation projects. We offer customised sizes to fit any bridge deck.
- Once installed, our buried highway system requires virtually no maintenance for the lifespan of your infrastructure, contributing to cost savings and hassle-free operations over time.
Trusted for decades on highways nationwide, our integrated expansion joint and waterproofing system promises safety, longevity, and exceptional value for money.
Multi-use Car Park and Bridge Joints
For multi-use applications like car park decks and highway overpass bridges, our Uniflex expansion joints are designed to handle dynamic structural shifts, temperature changes, and continuous heavy loads over decades, with minimal maintenance required.
- Uniflex joints feature a central flexible membrane that accommodates movement both inline and at changes in grade or slope.
- Galvanised steel edge beams on both sides offer protection to the internal membrane alongside a smoother transition for vehicles.
- For extra stability, Uniflex joints are anchored into the concrete deck.
- Resilient wear-resistant surfacing ensures the Uniflex withstands vehicular traffic and weathering. Surfacing options include steel plates, aluminium, or hot-mix asphalt.
- Engineered for user-friendly installation, reliability, and low whole-of-life costs, Uniflex joints are an excellent choice for multi-use applications.
Cost-Effective Highway Joint Solutions
Armour Joint expansion solutions offer cost-effectiveness for highway applications—including overpasses, bridges, road surfaces, and parking structures—while delivering top-tier performance:
- Their resilient polymer construction is compatible with both asphalt and concrete surfacing, making them widely adaptable.
- Quick and easy installation is facilitated, cutting down project timelines.
- Armour joints provide excellent weather resistance and longevity.
- Specialised anchorages allow firm embedding while facilitating movement as designed.
- For affordable expansion and contraction allowances, the Armour Joint series ticks all the essential boxes.
Commercial and Heavy-Traffic Solutions
We also provide Zenflex J-Series expansion joints and Quickseal joint sealant ideal for commercial applications. Zenflex is flexible and waterproof, ensuring reliable performance in heavy traffic and harsh environmental conditions. Quickseal is a fast-curing, highly adhesive joint sealant that offers long-lasting seals, with waterproof properties and resistance to chemicals and abrasion.
Contact Vision Specialist Contracting for expert advice on expansion joints for your projects. We’ll review your project requirements and provide tailored expansion joint recommendations. Our services include custom design, installation, and maintenance advice.
Reach out for information on how we can assist with reliable and cost-efficient expansion joints for your infrastructure needs.
AlgaFlex TX Series Rubber Expansion Joints
General Features
The Algaflex TX are waterproof expansion joints that allow absorption of the deck movements. These joints are manufactured with rubber elements and are restrained to the structure with proper anchor bolts. The reinforcing metal profiles made of steel are completely inserted and vulcanised to the rubber.
This process is a total guarantee against corrosion and allows a longer life for the product. The rubber compound, too, has been intentionally formulated to resist the oil, grease, petrol, salt and sand, without besides, suffering premature ageing phenomena due to sun rays, salt and snow. All the joints follow the deformations and movements of the structures (the movement can exist with every skew angle from 0° to 90°) by shear deformation of the rubber elements. Anchor bolts, made of steel and protected with anticorrosion treatments, absorb the elastic reactions and all the other kinds of mechanical solicitations.
The joints are also able to compensate for height differences or vertical movements. This characteristic is very important in all the cases where load and movement conditions can cause relative vertical movements. Each kind of joint may be combined with aluminium or rubber kerb units or sidewalk joints. The joint series has been manufactured by Alga since 1978.
Stainless steel anchors may be provided on request. In that way the horizontal forces, due to braking of vehicles and to the reaction that rubber opposes to the joint deformations (shrinkage, fluage, thermal variations etc.), are transmitted by friction between the rubber and the concrete. The joints can be assembled on a metallic infrastructure. The joints of bigger movements with four upper grooves are manufactured in order to prevent the lifting of the elements during the contraction. These devices guarantee the adhesion of the elements to the structure and the noiseless of the traffic.
Main advantages
Simple and linear design with few elements | Low height of the profile | Total impermeable | Easy assembling either on concrete bridges or on steel bridges | No box out requested in the concrete structure | Suitable for the replacement of existing joints | Easy and quick to be replaced | Good resistance to vehicles sliding | Vertical movements absorption.
The joints are supplied in variable length elements depending on the joint type. A joint line consists in fact of many units joined together with a groove-and-tongue junction welded with special glue. The joints fixing is obtained by chemical anchors; the nuts are locked using a dynamometric key so that permanent compression strength is given to the joint.
Gap covering with continuous vulcanized expansion joint:
