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Meet the Tilt-up Concrete Association
   
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What is Tilt-up Concrete Construction? How Are Tilt-up Buildings Constructed?
   
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Why Design - Build Contractors Choose Tilt-up Concrete Construction
  
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Steel and Tilt-up Together
  
Tilt-up Delivers Theater Ahead of Schedule
  
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Construction Cost Fluctuations Make Tilt-up Construction a Better Choice Than Ever
   
A Showcase of Completed Tilt-up Construction Projects
   

 

 
 

Tilt-up Construction: A General Contractor's Approach to Innovative Commercial Building Construction

Have you ever driven past a 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. A tilt-up building's walls are created horizontally in 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 (also called tiltwall or tilt wall 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 warehouses, call centers, distribution centers, retail stores, office and storage buildings and other types of industrial and commercial facilities

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Preparing the Concrete Panel Forms
Workers plan out and build the forms, then place the rebar, embeds and inserts into the forms.
Pouring the Concrete Panels
After pouring the concrete into the forms, the workers smooth the surface. Once the concrete sets, they remove the forms.
Standing the Panels
Here's where tilt-up gets its name. The crew lifts the panel with a crane and stand it up into position, then brace it safely into place.

     

 
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