{"id":2589,"date":"2008-04-01T14:52:31","date_gmt":"2008-04-01T19:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/72.167.124.155\/tilt-uptoday\/?p=2589"},"modified":"2015-06-08T03:30:16","modified_gmt":"2015-06-08T08:30:16","slug":"new-largest-spandrel-panel-tops-tca-top-ten-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tilt-up.org\/tilt-uptoday\/es\/2008\/04\/01\/new-largest-spandrel-panel-tops-tca-top-ten-list\/","title":{"rendered":"El nuevo panel de spandrel m\u00e1s grande encabeza la lista de los diez mejores de la TCA"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Por: Wendy Ward<\/em>
\n Constructive Communication, Inc. wward@constructivecommunication.com<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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TCA has announced a new largest spandrel panel on the Top Ten list. The new titleholder is the 125-foot long spandrel panel for the NSA-8 Office and Hangar in Scottsdale, Ariz.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re quite excited to learn about this project,\u201d said Jim Baty, technical director of the TCA. \u201cNot only does it evidence the ability of project teams to accomplish ever-increasing feats, it also places yet another example of a quality solution to what was thought to be a very difficult program type for Tilt-Up to achieve.\u201d<\/p>\n

The owner selected Tilt-Up for this project to achieve an industrial-type look that features concrete, metal panels and rivets with a modern twist. \u201cThe large spandrel panel was necessary, because the hangar door required a header over the top for the roof connection,\u201d said Steve Rafalski, project manager\/ estimator for Jones Concrete Construction, LLC of Phoenix, Ariz. \u201cFurther,\u00a0the owner wanted to keep the appearance of the concrete Tilt-Up panels consistent with the rest of the hangar. The large spandrel panel was the best way to accomplish the proper connection and provide the desired look.\u201d<\/p>\n

Presenting several challenges, the large spandrel panel had to be engineered for top picks only because of the extensive rigging. Crews had to bring in a 70- foot major bar and then use two smaller 30-foot minor bars underneath it. On a typical panel, the 30-foot minor bar would be used as the major bar. Further, the crew faced obstacles with the crane. Located at an airport, several height restrictions of the boom of the crane were in place. Crews had maxed out the cable because of\u00a0the restrictions, total length of the rigging, height that the panel had to be set at and the height of the panel. \u201cWe had only two feet to spare before the hook and block hit the shutdown sensor at the top of the crane, which left no margin of error,\u201d said Rafalski.<\/p>\n

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The site was confined by private property, taxiways and public streets, which required precise coordination. The building layout did not provide much usable slab space to place panels, so casting beds were used and panels were stack cast, which limited space on the site for crane. A 300-ton crawler crane was utilized, because it was able to pick up panels from just a few select places, because crews could not get next to the building on all four sides.<\/p>\n

Comprised of 43 panels (10 of which are spandrel panels), the hangar\u00a0is 11,000 square feet and the two- story office is 6,000 square feet.\u00a0Still under construction, the project was completed in April 2008. This complex project demonstrates the importance of pre-planning and pre- pour checklists. \u201cPre-planning was crucial on this project to ensure that we had a usable erection sequence,\u201d said Rafalski. \u201cInput from the Tilt-Up hardware supplier, crane operator, project general contractor and structural engineer made for a much smoother job.\u201d<\/p>\n

To learn more about other projects on the TCA Top Ten List, visit www.tilt-up.org\/toptendefault.htm.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Por: Wendy Ward, Constructive Communication, Inc. wward@constructivecommunication.com TCA ha anunciado la incorporaci\u00f3n de un nuevo panel de spandrel, el m\u00e1s grande hasta la fecha, a la lista de los diez primeros. El nuevo r\u00e9cord lo ostenta el panel de spandrel de 125 pies de largo del edificio NSA-8, que alberga oficinas y un hangar. Leer m\u00e1s\u2026<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[173,118,28],"class_list":{"0":"post-2589","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"tag-spandrel-panels","8":"tag-tilt-up","9":"tag-top-ten"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tilt-up.org\/tilt-uptoday\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tilt-up.org\/tilt-uptoday\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tilt-up.org\/tilt-uptoday\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tilt-up.org\/tilt-uptoday\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tilt-up.org\/tilt-uptoday\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2589"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/tilt-up.org\/tilt-uptoday\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7555,"href":"https:\/\/tilt-up.org\/tilt-uptoday\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2589\/revisions\/7555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tilt-up.org\/tilt-uptoday\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tilt-up.org\/tilt-uptoday\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tilt-up.org\/tilt-uptoday\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}