Asset Protection — Cake Commercial Services

Asset Protection

Every steel and concrete asset is deteriorating from the day it goes in. CAKE slows that down, protecting and repairing assets so owners get more years out of what they already have. We work across commercial, industrial and infrastructure environments nationwide, from bases in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch.

Cake asset protection project on site
Specialist services

Our asset protection services

Replacement is the expensive option

Corrosion and concrete deterioration are predictable, and they are far cheaper to manage than to ignore. Estimates put national spending on corrosion at around three percent of GDP, and most of that is avoidable through maintenance rather than replacement.

The economics are usually clear once an asset is assessed. Recoating a structure costs a fraction of replacing it. Repairing spalled concrete and protecting the surface costs a fraction of rebuilding the element. The difficulty is that deterioration is invisible until it is advanced, so the work gets deferred until it becomes urgent and expensive.

That is why we offer condition assessment and specification as services in their own right, not only application. An asset owner who knows what condition their assets are in can plan maintenance to a budget rather than reacting to a failure.

Coatings, concrete repair and access all sit under one team here, so an asset needing more than one of them does not need more than one contractor. We take on work at any scale, from a single tank or car park deck through to multi-year programmes.

Frequently asked questions

Yes. Protective coatings and blasting cover steel and coated concrete surfaces, and our concrete remediation service covers repair, strengthening and injection. Many assets need both, and we scope them together.

A condition assessment will tell you. Coating breakdown, section loss, spalling and active water ingress all progress at different rates, and some can be safely monitored while others accelerate quickly once started. We inspect, report on condition and give a view on timing so it can be planned and budgeted.

The technical work overlaps considerably. Asset protection covers the services themselves, applied to buildings and structures of any type. Infrastructure maintenance covers how we apply those services to network and utility assets such as water, transport and energy infrastructure, where the compliance requirements and operational constraints are different. If you are unsure which fits, either enquiry reaches the same team.

It depends on the environment and the coating system, but a periodic inspection cycle is far cheaper than discovering a failure. Aggressive environments such as coastal, marine and wastewater need more frequent attention than sheltered internal assets. We can set an inspection interval as part of a maintenance strategy.

Talk to us about your assets

Tell us what you need protected, or send photos of what you are seeing. We are happy to look at an asset and advise before anything is priced.