Although basically in good shape, the 12-story, 76-unit Watermark Place high-rise condominium in Columbia, Md., needed a facelift. Built in 1989, Watermark Place had a lot of stains and algae on the building, and it definitely needed sprucing up, according to building manager Jeanne Fisher. Local firm Gardner James Engineering was hired to find a coating for Watermark Place that wouldn't get stained as its original paint had.
“We used two coats of Lotusan for the project and it really stands out,” said Dave Gertz of Gardner James. “If you watch the coating during a rain, the coating never really seems to get wet as the water continually rolls off the surface.”
Lotusan is an exterior wall coating modeled on the microstructure of the Asian lotus plant. This technology imparts microscopic, super-hydrophobic properties to the coating, the same way a lotus plant's structure naturally keeps water and dirt from adhering to its surface. The features of Lotusan include high resistance to soiling, pronounced self-cleaning effect, and high resistance to mold, mildew, and algae.
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