When Grande Boulevard Mall opened its doors in 1981, its owners envisioned success by catering to Jacksonville, Fla.'s growing upscale neighborhoods. Located directly across from the city's first gated community, Deerwood Country Club, the upscale mall boasted mostly specialty stores, expensive shops and entertainment venues, including a nightclub, a comedy club and a British-style pub.

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Concrete contractor and tilt-up entrepreneur Larry Clark discusses the construction of Capital Centre, an all-tilt-up sports and entertainment complex he is building in Lansing, Mich. The facility includes a 52,000-square-foot basketball stadium, a 176,00-square-foot building for soccer, hockey, and gymnastics, and a health and fitness building...

Many tilt-up contractors are discovering that they can save time and money, in addition to increasing the architectural options they can offer customers, by applying an exterior insulation finish system (EIFS) to the exterior of concrete tilt-up panels.

Part of this article provides coverage of the TCA's 2000 Tilt-Up Achievement Awards.

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.