Bonded post-tensioning provides an ideal reinforcement for heavily trafficked parking garages, and the parking garage for the Owings Mills Town Center at Owings Mills Station is no exception. Located near Baltimore in Owings Mills, Md., the Owings Mills Town Center is a mixed-use development including residential, office and retail space as well as restaurants, a new public library and a community college building.

VSL's bonded post-tensioning was used to construct this eight-story garage with over 2,800 spaces. Bonded post-tensioning provided the advantage of long-term durability for the structure and afforded the best solution for the owner's requirements of maximizing durability and mitigating repair and maintenance costs over the garage's lifespan.

VSL's VSLAB+® bonded post-tensioning systems were specified for the garage's decks, and VSL's ECI bonded post-tensioning systems were specified for the beams. Plastic ducts in the slabs and beams provided enhanced corrosion protection for the post-tensioning tendons. VSL supplied more than 2 million linear feet of post-tensioning strand, over 600,000 linear feet of plastic corrugated duct, more than 8,700 VSLAB+®  anchorage systems and in excess of 600 ECI anchorage systems for installation of the bonded slab tendons and bonded beam tendons.

In addition to supplying all of the materials and equipment for the post-tensioning installation, VSL provided the shop drawings and engineering calculations. Work began in December 2005 and ended in November 2006.