Construction for the Unimaginable!

As I write this Letter from the Director, a new threat from Mother Nature is barreling up the East coast of the United States.  We are also about to observe the 10th anniversary of the 9-11 attacks.  This letter, however, isn’t about hurricanes, tornadoes, climate change or terrorist attacks but rather about Man’s response to […]

Get Involved!

Hopefully by the time you are reading this you are on your way to, enjoying yourself at, or just returning from the 2011 TCA Annual Convention. The annual convention is a great way to dive in to all that the TCA has to offer. Taking advantage of all that the TCA is doing is the […]

The Value of Participation

By: Mitch Bloomquist, Tilt-Up Concrete Association A common suggestion of many non-profit organizations such as trade associations is that the association belongs to and is shaped by its members. When it comes to the TCA, this is absolutely the case. Oftentimes, this fact is overlooked by existing and potential members. The mission of the Tilt-Up […]

Taper-Lock Form Saver Engineered to Provide Fastest Connections in the Industry

DAYTON, Ohio, June 21, 2011 – The introduction of Dayton Superior’s Taper-Lock ® Form Saver exemplifies the manufacturer’s commitment to developing advanced technologies to provide unparalleled rebar splicing products and systems in the concrete construction market. The Taper-Lock Form Saver, a taper-threaded, mechanical splicing system brings together the best of the unique, but well-respected and […]

Tilt-Up as a Re-Emerging Design Technology

By: Mitch Bloomquist, Tilt-Up Concrete Association and Jeffrey Brown, Powers Brown Architecture As a low cost, low technology building system, Tilt-Up concrete construction has become one of the fastest growing solutions used to meet current industry wide budget constraints. This is no subtlety – it represents a grass roots insurgency on the part of low […]

Citadel Enters Uncharted Territories with Charter School and Tilt-Up

By: Kimberly Corwin, A.H. Harris Construction Supplies Glenn Doncaster, an avid sailor, knows that if you’re in uncharted waters, you are in a situation that is unfamiliar to you, that you have no experience of and don’t know what might happen. This was the case as Citadel Contractors recently took on the widest known panel […]

A.H. Harris Announces New President

West Hartford, CT – Bob Parsons, Chairman and CEO of A.H. Harris & Sons, Inc., announced the promotion of Kimberly Corwin, from Vice-President of Sales and Marketing, to President. Kimberly Corwin has more than 20 years in the concrete construction industry. She began her career in Iowa at Composite Technologies Corporation. She joined Hughes Supply in […]

Tilt-Up Concrete Association Spearheads Design and Construction of Missouri Korean War Veterans Memorial

The Tilt-Up Concrete Association (TCA) – a non-profit international organization that serves to expand and improve the use of Tilt-Up as the preferred construction method – along with the Kansas City, Missouri Parks and Recreation Department and the Concrete Promotional Group of Kansas City is very proud to be spearheading the design and construction of […]

Member Profile: VLMK Consulting Engineers

By: Wendy Ables, Constructive Communication, Inc. Founded in 1970, VLMK Consulting Engineers has always had a primary emphasis on providing quality consulting structural engineering services. The firm is committed to providing safe, economical and functional design. “Our focus on providing creative design solutions with an attention-to-detail and meeting critical timelines has made our staff one […]

The TCA is on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and YouTube… Why?

By Mitch Bloomquist | Tilt-Up Concrete Association Why should you follow the TCA across four different social media platforms? Because we use them differently! While there is some validity in maintaining a presence on each of the major social media platforms simply because people and businesses favor one over the others and it is important […]

Tilt-Up Convention 2011 – Strategies

Final details are coming together for the 2011 TCA Convention, which will be held from September 28-30 at the Hyatt Regency Crown Center in Kansas City, MO.  If you haven’t made plans (or hotel reservations), we suggest you do so as soon as possible.  We have a great room rate ($145/night) but we reduced our […]

Tilt-Up Company Certification

Certification is coming.  It is the trend of the future, like it or not.  Building code jurisdictions are asking for it; Owners are asking for it; Our own members are asking for it. If is going to happen would you prefer that it is developed within the industry or by an outside, third party, who […]

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