The Tilt-Up Concrete Association has announced a new record for the heaviest tilt-up panel — a 339,000-pound panel set recently at the Ocean Center convention center project in Daytona Beach, FL. The ...
The general contractor on a project constructing two tilt-up buildings was able to use Tilt-Werks web-based software to create the drawings for the tilt-up and share the drawings with the layout crew.
Photo: www.tmtiltup.com Dayton, Ohio-based structural engineer Steinbicker & Associates has developed a free online tool to help owners, developers, and contractors estimate panel thickness and the ...
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The Tilt-Up Concrete Association (TCA) has released a position statement assigning responsibility for the assessment of floor slab capacity for the bracing of tilt-up panels. While the TCA previously ...
Forming, placing and erecting the Tilt-Up panels is done within strict tolerances. Shown here is Lindsay Lampasona setting one of the 80 panels in its spot to be braced temporarily to the slab on ...
The Massachusetts Concrete & Aggregate Producers Association (MaCAPA) recently hosted a presentation about the progress of tilt-up construction in New England. More than 55 attended, including ...
An extremely tight schedule that necessitated starting construction before design was complete, along with numerous complications that arose associated with the use of tilt-up construction required ...
In its 42 years, Alta High School in Sandy, Utah, about 17 miles south of Salt Lake City, has seen a big evolution in teaching technology, some demographic shifts and a change in school districts. The ...
The number of steps required to create a tilt-up panel varies depending on exactly what you're doing. But there are a few key points, which you'll see in the next several photos. Here, crews have ...
It takes a gigantic piece of machinery to lift up to 178,000 pounds of slab concrete and move it like a playing card in a 39-card deck. The Ness & Campbell hydraulic crane that this week is piercing ...