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The tilt-up industry’s top professionals gathered at the St. Louis Gateway Arch to honor those organizations, people, and projects that have successfully illustrated the variety, beauty, and flexibility of tilt-up construction. The Tilt-Up Awards Gala, Read more…

Why Glue Don’t Work

By Chad Bruce, president, GluDown, Inc. Executive Summary GluDown, Inc. and KRÜSS Scientific has spent the last 18 months measuring tilt-up concrete slabs and the impact of using curing compounds, bond breakers as a curing Read more…

TCA Journal – Call for Manuscripts

To submit a manuscript to the TCA Journal, please read and follow the guidelines below. Complete manuscripts in PDF format can be emailed year-round to timothy.mays@citadel.edu (Timothy W. Mays, Ph.D., P.E. , TCA Journal Technical Read more…

Concrete Strategies Takes the Outdoor Demo to New Levels

In 2018, the then-TCA president, Tim Manherz, challenged his young, high-potential leaders, Chase Carter and Hector Valenzuela, to lead the TCA Outdoor Demo as part of the 2018 Tilt-Up Convention and Expo. TAS Commercial Concrete Read more…

Tilt-Up Education, Products, and Technology

The Tilt-Up Convention and Expo, presented by Concrete Strategies Inc., Leviat, and White Cap, continues to deliver the most valuable education and technology that the industry has to offer, and after a year of adjusting Read more…

TCA’s New Cyber Roundtable is Now Live

For years, the TCA’s cyber roundtable (also known as the technical hotline) has been an essential tool for professionals seeking advice and troubleshooting tips for project issues. Conversations surrounding contract language, engineering details, product reviews, Read more…

New Online Education Transcript Allows for Seamless Recertification

In an effort to bring the Tilt-Up Concrete Association’s new education platform (Tilt-Up Academy) and its continuing education management functionality full circle, TCA is proud to announce the immediate release of member transcript pages. Members’ Read more…

A Conversation With TCA’s Executive Committee

Leadership within the Tilt-Up Concrete Association (TCA) consists of 15 people serving on the board of directors. They serve in rotational three-year terms that may be renewed for up to two consecutive terms. During their Read more…

Team Erects First Industrial Project Using Innovative Steel Design

BEAMS VS. JOISTS: A CASE STUDY IN SOLVING CURRENT CONSTRUCTION DELAYS By Chris Heath, senior vice president, industrial and Colorado regional manager, Arch-Con® Corporation When Arch-Con® Corporation began preconstruction on the eighth and final industrial Read more…

Tilt-Up, Newburyport

By William Morgan Newburyport, Massachusetts, an historic Yankee maritime town, north of Boston, seems an unlikely place for a building revolution. Yet, here at the Hillside Center for Sustainable Living, a new village of 48 Read more…

TCA’s Tilt-Up Academy Wins Platinum Hermes Creative Award

Hermes Creative Awards recently announced winners for its 2021 international awards competition for creative professionals involved in the concept, writing, and design of traditional and emerging media. Judges awarded the Tilt-Up Concrete Association’s online education Read more…

Extollo Bringing Tilt-Up Construction Technology to Haiti

The 7.2 earthquake that struck southern Haiti on Aug. 14, leveling homes and other structures with people still in them, made it brutally apparent that Haiti’s normative construction techniques and re-construction plans will not prevent Read more…

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

Award Winners

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 Read more...

Only in Reflection

From the Director

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

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

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...

Community & Culture

TUExpo Nashville 2025: 10 Booths That Stole the Show

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...

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