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The Tilt-Up Concrete Association is proud of the recognition major publications have given to Tilt-Up and the success it embodies. Over the years, Tilt-Up, the TCA and its member organizations have been featured in a variety of key industry magazine articles. Below, you will find links to these selected online articles.
Also, be sure to check out all of our archived media coverage:
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Tilt-Up Construction on the Rise
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AWCI's Construction Dimensions (June 1999)
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The builder had an idea, the architect created a design, and the wall guys made it work. |
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 Tilt-Up Goes Sky High
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Concrete Construction (March 1998)
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Soaring to a record height of 91 feet, 7 ¼ inches, two tilt-up concrete wall panels were used by Gloria Dei Lutheran Church, Nassau Bay, Texas, to frame the 117-foot-tall cross for the church's new worship center. Though standard procedures were used to form and cast the panels, their enormous size and heft called for carefully engineered rigging and bracing. |
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From Healing the Body to Soothing the Soul
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Building Design & Construction (January 1998)
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Strategic space planning and tilt-up wall construction prove instrumental in transforming a medical facility into a performing arts center. |
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Canopy Helps to Fine-tune Sound
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Building Design & Construction (January 1998)
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One of the biggest challenges faced by the architect in designing the Mesquite (Texas) Arts Center was “creating an acoustically correct performance hall within a very limited budget,” said Milton Powell, principal with Dallas-based architect Milton Powell & Partners. |
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Refitting on the Fly
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Building Design & Construction (November 1997)
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Keeping pace with advancing technology pushes California high-tech manufacturer to initiate quick-response facilities programs for clean room retrofit projects. |
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Integrated Lab has People Talking
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Building Design & Construction (August 1997)
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By combining team laboratories with a pilot plant, the Genencor International Technology Center discovers a winning formula. |
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Designing for the Neighborhood
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Building Design & Construction (August 1997)
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Being a good neighbor means more than just tending to the lawn in the technological community of Stanford Research Park—the cornerstone of Silicon Valley. Building the Genencor International Technology Center on a 10-acre parcel in the heart of the park meant complying with the standards set by Stanford University and met by other prominent members including Hewlett Packard, Alza and Varian. Established landscape settings, heights, setbacks and quality materials demanded a design team familiar with the park’s and Palo Alto’s stringent building requirements. |
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A League of its Own
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Building Design & Construction (June 1997)
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A surprise game plan and tilt-up formation make the St. Louis Rams’ new training and administrative complex a winner. |
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Zeroing in on Freezer Facilities
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Building Design & Construction (January 1997)
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System requirements include a monolithic vapor barrier, fully insulated envelope and heated subslab. Freezer and cold-storage facilities comprise a unique and growing market niche. Indeed, trends in American life point to the construction of many more such buildings, and to the expansion and modernization of existing ones. At the same time, storage facilities present unusual design challenges and even the slightest miscalculation can compromise their performance. |
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Guidelines for Bracing Tilt-Up Walls
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Concrete Construction (December 1995)
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The primary purpose for the temporary bracing of tilt-up concrete wall panels is to help them resist lateral wind forces. In addition to stabilizing panels in gusty winds, braces may also be needed to support tilt-up panels subbject to other lateral forces, such as backfilling or the accidental impact of moving construction equipment. |
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Tilt-Up Opportunities in New Markets
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Concrete Construction (December 1994)
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In markets in which all competing general contractors rely on the same subcontractors and material suppliers to determine cost, tilt-up construction offers the opportunity for cost control. Contractors use more of their own workforce and are less susceptible to a subcontractor's schedule delays and the price fluctuations of plant-manufactured products. |
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Residential Tilt-Up in Colorado
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Concrete Construction (September 1994)
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Energy-efficient concrete tilt-up homes are making news in Pueblo, Colo., where Castle Construction Co. is using insulated concrete sandwich panels to build two different home designs. |
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The Northridge Earthquake: Another Test for California Construction
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AWCI's Construction Dimensions (April 1994)
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On Monday, Jan. 17, 1994, at approximately 4:31 a.m. an earthquake measuring 6.6 on the Richter Scale struck California..." The building itself, a concrete Tilt-Up structure, is in good shape, but the interior suffered a lot of damage from collapsed pallet racks." |
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Building Features Curved Tilt-Up Panels
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Concrete Construction (January 1994)
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Ten curved tilt-up sandwich panels were used to construct a 300,000-square-foot apparel distribution center in Troy, Ohio. Designed and built by The Haskell Company, Jacksonville, Florida, the curved panels are located at four of the facility's six corners. |
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Bond Breaker Forgotten on Tilt-Up Job?
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Concrete Construction (November 1990)
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Q&A - We have a number of tilt-up panels, 8 inches thick, lying in place on a 6-inch floor slab. We can't get them free of the base slab so that we can start tilting. It seems that someone forgot to put bond breaker on the foundation slab. We were unsuccessful in wedging the slabs free. What else can be done? |
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Want to See Your Project on the Cover of Magazines?
TCA can make that happen if you have some good jobsite photos to share. Although we have a wide variety of finished building photographs from our annual Achievement Award competition (though more photos are always welcome), TCA has a real shortage of good jobsite photos. The advent and subsequent explosion of digital photography has had a large impact on our photo archives. Obviously, digital technology provides for quick and easy manipulation and development of photographs for website and email purposes. However, most of these images are not suitable for print publications since all most magazines require digital photos to be at least 300 dpi (dots per inch) and 4 x 6 in size - usually in TIF format. And, for cover photographs, a slide, transparency or 8.5 x 11 inch photograph is necessary. With only small digital files to choose from in our archives, the TCA is losing valuable opportunities in the media to showcase tilt-up.
If you have photos you are willing to share, please send them to TCA today. Your company will benefit from exposure as well since the photo caption and cutline will highlight your company and the project. Thank you for helping "build" the tilt-up industry.
For more information on marketing efforts being undertaken by the TCA, contact Ed Sauter, Executive Director for the TCA at (319) 895-6911. |
