People + Perspectives - Tilt-Up Today

Growing Pains

June 14, 2022

The current state of the tilt-up concrete market, from volume and opportunity standpoints, is the best it’s ever been in my lifetime. If you are wanting to get into the tilt-up design and/or construction market, Read more…

Influence vs Expertise

June 14, 2022

The Tilt-Up Concrete Association (TCA) recently published an updated list of tilt-up industry influencers. As with the first release in the spring of 2020, the announcement was shared on social media, posted on company websites, Read more…

Blessed

March 16, 2022

As I write this President’s letter today for Tilt-Up Today magazine, I have been asking myself to think of one word that would best describe the current state of the TCA and the tilt-up industry. Read more…

The Right Way

March 16, 2022

I had the honor of filling in for Shawn Hickey during World of Concrete as I presented the 4-hour tilt-up certification preparatory seminar to a packed room of certification candidates. After giving them the disappointing Read more…

Facilitating Community Action

December 20, 2021

“I Have Looked Upon the Community as the Unit of Social Organization in Which Lies the Greatest Element of Hope for Permanent Progress.”I Following our virtual gathering in October of 2020, I wrote a letter Read more…

2021 Convention Success, the Big Box Market, and Keeping an Architectural Focus

December 20, 2021

Despite being in a global pandemic, we just had an in-person, SAFE, and successful 2021 TCA convention in September in my hometown, in the great “show me” state of Missouri! It was a pleasure and Read more…

Eliminating Barriers to Engagement

August 26, 2021

Have you noticed that you don’t need a password to register for the Tilt-Up Convention and Expo? More on that after a quick story. . . . This August, our family traveled to Cincinnati, Ohio, Read more…

E-Commerce Boom, Out of Stock, and Help Wanted!

August 26, 2021

All three of these items are having a HUGE effect on the tilt-up industry right now and for the foreseeable future! The e-commerce world is what is driving this best ever tilt-up economy, and “out Read more…

Growth and Getting Back to Normal!

June 3, 2021

First, it is an honor of a lifetime to serve as the 2021 TCA president! Let me introduce myself: My name is Barclay Gebel. I grew up on a farm in Hillsboro, Missouri, and after Read more…

Remaining Calm in the Storm

December 23, 2020

What a difficult year this continues to be. First there was a national health crisis, then a national financial crisis, and then national political unrest. If viewed independently, each of these events are considered a Read more…

Pivot and Persevere

December 23, 2020

This year, we couldn’t be together. But we virtually shared space. We weren’t able to gather and share critical and valuable knowledge. But we found a way to disseminate information. We missed the live demonstrations, Read more…

Tilt-Up’s Best Celebrate in the Aggregate

December 23, 2020

The tilt-up industry’s best-dressed avatars gathered virtually on October 7, 2020, to honor the organizations, people, and projects that demonstrated the variety, beauty, and flexibility of tilt-up construction. Although the coronavirus pandemic prevented the usual Read more…

When Tilt-Up Becomes the Interior Finish

Architecture & Design

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 Read more...

Shared Ascent and the Next Standard of Tilt-Up Practice

Community & Culture

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 Read more...

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, Read more...

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, Read more...

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 Read more...

Opinion & Editorial

How Industry Engagement Is Taking Shape for 2026

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

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...

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

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...