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Concrete ConstructionWhat is Tilt-up Concrete Construction?Have
you ever driven past a commercial construction site and seen massive cranes lifting
huge panels of concrete in the air? Have you watched with amazement as a new commercial
building seems to spring into place, almost overnight? What you have witnessed
is tilt-up construction, an innovative method for building office buildings, retail
centers, warehouses, distribution centers, call centers, manufacturing facilities
and other commercial / industrial structures with amazing speed, safety, and cost
benefits. In traditional forms of wall construction, the walls can
be built with CMU blocks or blocks faced with brick. For some types of buildings,
the exterior wall is made up of structural steel columns with heavy gauge metal
studs covered with gyp sheathing, which is then faced with brick or stucco. Regardless
which traditional approach is used, building the exterior walls is a time-consuming,
multi-stepped process. Tilt-up construction (also called tiltwall or tilt wall
construction) employs a different approach. A tilt-up building's walls are created
horizontally as large slabs of concrete called panels. The panels are then lifted,
or tilted up, into position around the building's slab. This means the tilt-up
structure's exterior wall is virtually finished when it is tilted into place.
Tilt-up Construction in Today's Commercial Construction MarketTilt-up
construction has a long history, but its widespread use is a relatively new phenomenon.
In spite of this, tilt-up construction is fast becoming the method of choice for
constructing modern commercial construction projects like warehouses, call centers,
distribution centers, retail stores, office and storage buildings. Tiltwall
construction has since been used in buildings as large as 1.7 million square feet,
with individual panels reaching as high as 91 feet and weighing 150 tons. The
Tilt-up Concrete Association (TCA) reports that 15% of all industrial buildings
in the U.S. were created using tilt-up construction. It is growing at an annual
rate of almost 20% and is used in over 650 million square feet of new building
construction each year. In Texas and other sunbelt states, tilt-up accounts for
as much as 75% of new one-story commercial building construction. General contractors,
design build contractors and builders in Mexico, Canada and Australia are also
using tiltwall construction on an increasingly frequent basis. Tilt-up
Construction and Bob Moore ConstructionTilt-up construction has been a
key component of Bob Moore Construction's philosophy of delivering quality buildings,
on time and in budget, since the 1970s. The company has been a pioneer in tiltwall
construction for over 30 years, with more than a half-century of experience in
traditional construction and steel buildings. Over the years, the company has
built several million square feet of quality buildings using tilt-up. Bob Moore
Construction has used tiltwall construction for a wide range of commercial construction
applications, including office buildings, retail centers, warehouses, distribution
centers, call centers, manufacturing facilities and other commercial / industrial
structures. The company's Vice President of Construction, Ed McGuire, is
Vice President and Secretary of the Board of Directors for the TCA and a consulting
member of the American Concrete Institute Committee 301 - Specifications for Concrete
group. He was a founding member of the educational committee on Tilt-up Construction
Certification, a joint effort between the ACI and TCA to develop educational and
testing resources for industry professionals.
Experienced in the process
and educated on the latest innovations, Bob Moore Construction can work with you
to see if tiltwall is right for your project, and manage the process from design
to completion with your needs, schedule and budget in mind. If you would
like to learn more about tilt-up construction or discuss how commercial construction
company Bob Moore Construction can help on your upcoming project, please call
us at (817) 640-1200 or contact
us online. More Information on Tiltwall Construction The
website Tiltup.com
features a wide range of information about tilt-up construction, including
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