Sports Fans Are Sure to Appreciate Tnemec's 2009 Tank of the Year
The votes are counted and the winning entry for Tnemec’s 2009 Tank of the Year competition is a 2-million-gallon hydropillar featuring exterior artwork inspired by its location inside Darree Fields Park, a major sports and recreation complex operated by the City of Dublin, Ohio. “This year’s selection features an impressive palette of earth tone colors serving as a background for silhouettes of larger than life sports figures,” announced Doug Hansen, director of sales, Water Tank Market. “The sports theme is a perfect fit with the baseball and softball diamonds, soccer fields, and Dublin’s Miracle League Field where children with disabilities compete in sports.”
More than 100 entries were received this year from across the country, many of which feature Tnemec’s advanced fluoropolymer finish coat that provides unprecedented long-term gloss and color retention and resistance to ultraviolet (UV) light. “The winning entry utilized Tnemec’s Series V700 Low VOC HydroFlon, which is the only fluoropolymer coating that is compliant with Ohio’s environmental regulations for volatile organic compounds (VOCs),” Hansen noted.
The award-winning tank features five different finish colors - Gray Oak, Stout, Clover, Ginger Mist, and Castle Gray - which were applied over an off-white intermediate coat of Series 73 Endura-Shield, an acrylic polyurethane. “Each of the five colors of HydroFlon provided good coverage and hide with a single coat,” according to Tnemec coating consultant Dan Haines. “This is important in the City of Dublin where they take a very strong interest in the aesthetics of their town - even the aesthetics of a water tank.”
The design of the tank by URS Corp. of Columbus, Ohio, combined both form and function. The interior of the tank’s column is designed to house a break room, restroom, and storage area for Dublin Parks and Recreation Department maintenance equipment. The design includes an oil and water separator for the floor drains coming off the storage area and a geothermal system that provides radiant floor heating for the occupied space. The tank is operated by Columbus Division of Power & Water (DOPW), which continuously monitors water quality from automated equipment within the tank.
The tank was fabricated by CB&I and constructed to meet the City of Dublin’s growing residential population and economic development, which includes a 1,500-acre parcel at U.S. Route 33 that is planned as a technology park and the new Dublin Methodist Hospital. The city is expanding the interchange at U.S.-33 and has entered into water and sewer pacts with the City of Columbus that promote the development of a technology corridor. Dublin is headquarters for Ashland Chemical Company, the Midwestern Volkswagen complex, and in 2010 will celebrate its bicentennial.
Tnemec Company’s Tank of the Year contest is designed to recognize and celebrate beautiful, creative, and innovative uses of Tnemec coatings on water tanks. New and renovation projects may be nominated, and all styles of tank construction are eligible. Nominations are judged by a committee of water tank enthusiasts based on several criteria including artistic value, significance of the tank to the surrounding community, and challenges encountered during the project.
All nominations will be featured in Tnemec's 2010 water tank calendar. To reserve your copy, please contact your local Tnemec coating consultant or email us.