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Early Bird Roundtable: Bringing MARS Down to Earth! - Applying Technologies Used in the MARS Pavilion to Tilt
September 20, 2018 from 7:00am to 8:00am Central Time
Dallas Ballroom D3
Wake up early for a sneak peak of one of the most impressive demos that will be executed at this year’s event. Discover how CTS and Helix collaborated to apply the same technologies used to create Form Found Design's rebar-less MARS canopy, commissioned by Jeff Bezos, to make thinner til...
Disaster Preparedness: Lessons Learned from 2017’s Catastrophic Hurricanes, Floods and Fires
September 20, 2018 from 9:00am to 10:00am Central Time
Dallas Ballroom BC
It’s fair to state that in 2017, Mother Nature delivered a wrath of extreme challenges for many of us, from extreme heat, record lows, and historical floods, to devastating winds, relentless mudslides and overwhelming fires. Planning for such disasters has become a necessity in most of o...
A Practical and Reliable Means to Polished Concrete Walls
September 20, 2018 from 10:00am to 10:30am Central Time
Dallas Ballroom BC
Polished concrete is a beautiful, durable, low maintenance finish. Until lately it has been limited to horizontal surfaces. Past attempts at vertical applications have often failed to match the consistency and quality clients are used to in floors. Today, the tilt-up construction method is pro...
Breaking into the School Market
September 20, 2018 from 10:30am to 11:30am Central Time
Dallas Ballroom BC
Why are school boards across Ontario Canada demanding site-cast tilt-up panels? Is it the project cost savings, construction timeline saving, continual energy and operations savings or a combination of them all? This presentation will walk through the design, procurement and construction aspec...
What Happened to Work Ethic? Are the Kids Alright?
September 20, 2018 from 11:30am to 12:30pm Central Time
Dallas Ballroom BC
When things don’t go well with a particular employee or crew, we tend to say work ethic (or lack of it!) is to blame. But what does that really mean? In this interactive session, we will examine work ethic as we define it in the tilt-up industry and find ways to align company needs with ...
Student Luncheon
September 20, 2018 from 11:30am to 12:30pm Central Time
Dallas Ballroom A3
Students from the Richardson Independent School District will join us for a lunch-talk on careers in construction and an introduction to tilt-up construction methodology.
The EPD Movement – It’s Closer than you Think
September 20, 2018 from 2:00pm to 3:00pm Central Time
Dallas Ballroom BC
Environmental Product Declarations (EPD) provide environmental transparency of products and solutions and are gaining global acceptance for construction projects.
As the demand for EPD grows, their requirement for project bid packages will also increase. Is your organization prepared t...
A New Generation of Tilt-Wall Icons
September 20, 2018 from 3:00pm to 4:00pm Central Time
Dallas Ballroom BC
Looking for inspiration from modern technology and historical precedent, Lake|Flato Architects has designed some iconic structures with tilt-wall concrete. Lake|Flato Partner Greg Papay, FAIA will share their approach to using a common material in uncommon ways to create transformational projects...
The Tilt-Wall System and Commodity Architecture
September 20, 2018 from 4:00pm to 5:00pm Central Time
Dallas Ballroom BC
Unlike contractors and developers in whose professions there is a very close alignment of the business and the ...
Early Bird Roundtable: Donuts with David C. Whitlock, Esquire
September 21, 2018 from 7:00am to 8:00am Central Time
Dallas Ballroom D3
We all have them, questions we don’t want to know the answer to. Questions that if answered may mean more work for us or may mean we’re doing it wrong. Worse yet, the answer may suggest we're not in compliance with current laws and regulations. Maybe it’s your “friend&r...
Heading to New Heights for E-Commerce
September 21, 2018 from 9:30am to 10:30am Central Time
Dallas Ballroom C
The growing e-commerce industry is creating a need for significantly larger warehouse spaces to house inventory, which means greater clear heights and a need for more cubic square footage. Warehouses have typically been measured by their base square footage, but now it is important to know how...
Construction Fails – A Review of Conditions and Decisions Leading to Disastrous Accidents and Near Misses
September 21, 2018 from 11:30am to 12:30pm Central Time
Dallas Ballroom C
Without a doubt, construction can be a dangerous business. Even so, not many mishaps on construction sites are freak accidents; the vast majority are completely preventable. During this seminar, Barclay Gebel will lead a panel of tilt-up experts in a review of several recent construction fails...
Now What? Managing the Aftermath of a Jobsite Accident
September 21, 2018 from 2:30pm to 3:30pm Central Time
Dallas Ballroom C
So, you’ve unfortunately had a jobsite accident, now what? Join Robert Schindler, safety director at Arch-Con Construction, as he breaks down the need for crisis management planning. Key elements including communication strategies, a plan for media interaction, cell phone and social medi...
Unpacking the New TCA Bracing Guideline Version 18.1
September 21, 2018 from 2:30pm to 3:30pm Central Time
Dallas Ballroom A3
This presentation will discuss the significant changes the new TCA Guideline for Temporary Wind Bracing of Tilt-Up Concrete Panels During ...
Roundtable: Tall Panels Bring Tall Challenges
September 21, 2018 from 3:30pm to 4:30pm Central Time
Dallas Ballroom C
Trends of panels getting taller and heavier means the challenge to temporarily brace them safely becomes greater. Join the discussion on some of the best practices engineered and used in the field for different panel and project applications. We will discuss market data to identify and confirm...
Attendees will get a behind the scenes look at the construction of the monumental polished tilt-up panels making up the Saint Louis Art Museum's new building.
The Saint Louis Art Museum, Located in Forest Park in Saint Louis, Missouri, is situated atop Art Hill overlooking the Grand Basin, the central gathering place for the 1904 World's Fair. Designed by renowned American architect Cass Gilbert, the Saint Louis Art Museum's original structure was the only building from the World’s Fair designed to be permanent. The 200,000 square foot addition, designed by London architect David Chipperfield, consists of large, clean expanses of glass and monumental planes of highly polished black concrete. The stark contrast created by the simplicity and darkness of the expansion keeps clean the reading of the original building and establishes a somewhat submissive attitude while sustaining its own sense of monumentality.
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Founded in 1986, the Tilt-Up Concrete Association (TCA) strives to improve the quality and acceptance of site-cast Tilt-Up construction - one of the fastest growing industries in the United States, combining the advantages of reasonable cost with low maintenance, durability, speed of construction and minimal capital investment. Over 10,000 buildings, enclosing more than 650 million square feet, are constructed each year using this construction method.
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