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Innovative Design Constructs Tilt-up Concrete Over Code Height Limit in High Seismic Zones

Special Reinforced Concrete Moment Frames allow tilt-up concrete walls to be built over the 40-foot code height limit in high seismic zones The Folsom Cordova Unified School District Education ...
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Creating a Light, Modern Feel with Tilt-up Concrete Construction

Tilt-up Concrete Association 2013 excellence award winning project combines tilt-up, steel and brick for a light, airy and modern feel The 73,751-square-footTooele Applied Technology College in Utah ...
The Columbian

Building’s walls go up thanks to huge crane

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 ...
Santa Rosa Press Democrat

Tilt-up process, commonly used for big-box stores, cuts construction time, cost

Giant concrete walls, three stories high and 30 feet wide, cut slowly through the air Tuesday morning, hoisted by a giant crane that moved the 204,000-pound slabs as easily as a child lifts the panels ...
Engineering News-Record

E-Commerce Logistics Test Limits of Tilt-Up Construction

While “fulfillment centers” and other e-commerce logistic facilities drive a hot market for the manufacturing sector, traditional construction methods such as tilt-up concrete panels are being pushed ...