Design + Engineering - Tilt-Up Today

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.

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.

BUILDING SMARTER INSIDE THE BOX

December 10, 2025

Tilt-Up Innovation for Interior Demising Walls By David Venegas, President, VEMAC, Inc. 2023 TCA Contractor of the Year When vacancy pressures started creeping into the industrial tilt-up market, subdividing large bays felt like the obvious Read more…

Interpreting Modularity and Precision in a Corporate Tilt-Up Headquarters

November 24, 2025

This 21,600-square-foot tilt-up headquarters applies a strict modular system to develop a cubic form with recessed planes, layered materials, and patterned shadows. The project demonstrates how site-cast construction can deliver precision, façade complexity, and schedule efficiency within a compact corporate building.

Shaping Realism and Resilience in Public Safety Training

November 20, 2025

Recognized with a 2025 Excellence in Achievement Award, the Orange County Fire Training Facility demonstrates how tilt-up construction can support immersive, scenario-driven environments for firefighter training, combining durable architectural concrete with complex structural elements tailored to public safety preparedness.

Tilt-Up Pavilion Earns AIA Arizona Design Award

November 15, 2025

Tilt Lab’s full-scale pavilion earned a 2025 AIA Arizona Design Award in the Component category, recognizing the Opus Luteum prototype and its advancement of double-curvature, earth-formed tilt-up construction.

Integrating Craftsmanship and Scale in Educational Design

November 7, 2025

Deseret Peak High School in Tooele County, Utah, demonstrates the advanced use of tilt-up concrete in educational design. Featuring 80-foot-tall panels, custom form-liners, and exposed interior finishes, the project combines engineering precision with architectural refinement across a 336,000-square-foot facility.

Precision and Performance in Tilt-Up Design

November 6, 2025

The 23XI Racing AirSpeed facility redefines tilt-up construction through precision detailing, accelerated sequencing, and complex panel integration. Completed in just over ten months, the project illustrates how tilt-up can merge architectural expression with technical performance in a fast-paced, high-profile environment.

Advocacy Brief: NACA Surface Transportation Letter (July 2025)

September 22, 2025

The North American Concrete Alliance submitted a letter to the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee emphasizing the role of cement and concrete in national surface transportation infrastructure. While the focus remains largely on roads, Read more…

TCA Submits Support for Stronger Carbon Accounting Standards

September 22, 2025

The Tilt-Up Concrete Association has submitted formal support for language in Section 6.6.1 of the ASHRAE 240P draft standard.

Building Sweet Success: Brothers Desserts Partners with Newcomb Construction

September 22, 2025

By Ava Kahn When two Brooklyn-born Italian brothers packed up their dreams (and their cannoli recipes) and headed to sunny California, they were on their way to creating an ice cream empire. Gary and Errol Read more…

From Boots on the Ground to Eyes in the Sky: Reinventing QC for Tilt-Up Construction

September 22, 2025

The quality control (QC) challenge in tilt-up work is staggering. A single panel might require checks on two dozen non-rebar elements, plus rebar placement, totaling around 50 individual verifications. On a 100-panel building, that adds up to more than 5,000 items—each of which must be correct to avoid rework.

Integrating Manufacturing and Office Programs Within a Unified Industrial Campus

Architecture & Design

December 20, 2025

How Industry Engagement Is Taking Shape for 2026

Opinion & Editorial

December 17, 2025

As firms plan for 2026, industry engagement is shifting from isolated moments to more structured, system-based participation. This perspective examines why organizations are consolidating engagement around fewer platforms that provide continuity, clarity, and long-term value. Read more...

Award Winners

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

December 12, 2025

From the Director

Only in Reflection

December 10, 2025

By: Mitch Bloomquist, Tilt-Up Concrete Association There’s a familiar line from Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” that often finds its way into moments of reflection: “I took the one less traveled by, and that Read more...

From the President

Carrying the Momentum Forward

December 10, 2025

Robert F. MurrayPresidentTilt-Up Concrete Association A month has passed since we gathered in Nashville, yet the conversations and connections from that week remain fresh in my mind. The Tilt-Up Convention and Expo has always been Read more...

Architecture & Design

BUILDING SMARTER INSIDE THE BOX

December 10, 2025

Community & Culture

TUExpo Nashville 2025: 10 Booths That Stole the Show

December 10, 2025

By Jill Heald Business Development Director, Tilt-Up Concrete Association Each year, the show floor at the Tilt-Up Convention and Expo comes alive with innovation, creativity, and connection—and Nashville set a new standard. From bold visual Read more...

Featured

MOCK-UP MEDLEY

December 10, 2025

By Mitch Bloomquist, Executive Director, Tilt-Up Concrete Association ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Teams from across North America came together in Nashville to showcase architectural mock-up panels that pushed the boundaries of tilt-up construction. Displayed on-site during the 2025 Read more...

Research & Innovation

Peer-Reviewed Journal Publishes Tilt Lab Research on Double-Curvature Tilt-Up Construction

December 2, 2025

The Plan Journal, an international peer-reviewed architecture journal, has published a research article documenting Opus Luteum, the Tilt Lab initiative developed for the 2024 Tilt-Up Convention & Expo in Phoenix. The article, written by Pablo Read more...

Architecture & Design

Interpreting Modularity and Precision in a Corporate Tilt-Up Headquarters

November 24, 2025