Articles by Mitch Bloomquist

Exploring the aesthetic and spatial potential of tilt-up construction.

Opinion & Editorial

From Attendance to Opportunity

January 26, 2026
The exhibit hall is central to the Tilt-Up Convention and Expo, yet its full potential remains underutilized. By better aligning structure, intent, and expectations with how professionals prioritize their time, exhibit hall engagement can become a purposeful extension of professional work—strengthening connections, conversations, and long-term industry collaboration.

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Architecture & Design

When Tilt-Up Becomes the Interior Finish

January 16, 2026
This project illustrates how tilt-up concrete can function as a finished interior material in a large educational facility. Delivered through a record-breaking winter and significant labor shortages, the building relied on advanced 3D modeling and complex sequencing to execute exposed tilt-up panels that support durability, constructability, and long-term community use.

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Community & Culture

Shared Ascent and the Next Standard of Tilt-Up Practice

January 9, 2026
The 2026 Tilt-Up Convention and Expo introduces Shared Ascent as a field-shaping framework focused on collective performance, elevated standards, and disciplined practice. This article outlines how the 2026 education program prioritizes depth, rigor, and transferable knowledge that advances the shared capability of the tilt-up industry.

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System Evaluation & Decision-Making

Evaluating Tilt-Up More Accurately

January 7, 2026
Tilt-up construction is often underestimated because it is evaluated as a building type rather than understood as a delivery system. By examining where that misclassification limits judgment, this article reframes tilt-up’s role across office, education, civic, industrial, and vertical applications where its performance is already proven.

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Award Winners

Phased Tilt-Up Strategies for Critical Civic Infrastructure

January 5, 2026
The Baytown Public Safety Building demonstrates how tilt-up construction can be adapted for critical civic facilities through phased sequencing, constrained-site strategies, and enhanced coastal engineering. The project provides transferable insight into panel planning, embed coordination, and finish integration under demanding operational and environmental conditions.

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Architecture & Design

Integrating Manufacturing and Office Programs Within a Unified Industrial Campus

December 20, 2025
This Excellence in Achievement project demonstrates how manufacturing and office programs can be unified within a single industrial campus through early structural coordination, site-responsive engineering, and enclosure strategies scaled to program needs. The project offers transferable lessons for managing schedule risk, daylighting, and façade articulation in complex industrial facilities.

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Award Winners

Panel Geometry and Seismic Coordination in an Industrial Tilt-Up Condominium

December 12, 2025
Fraser Mills Business Centre applies tilt-up concrete construction to an industrial condominium within a mixed-use master-planned community in Coquitlam, British Columbia. The project illustrates how panel geometry, seismic coordination, and erection strategies can support architectural variation, integrated glazing, and urban interface while maintaining structural performance.

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Workforce & Training

Scaling Knowledge: TCA Introduces Team Access for Tilt-Up Academy

November 21, 2025
The Tilt-Up Concrete Association has expanded its award-winning digital learning platform with the introduction of Team Access for Tilt-Up Academy. This new organizational-level offering enables companies to enroll multiple employees, centralize continuing education records, and engage with the Academy’s growing library of seminars and documentary-style films, including new content from the 2025 Nashville Convention and Expo and the recent release Beneath the Surface – The Art of Exposed Aggregate.

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