{"id":750,"date":"2011-11-17T10:34:05","date_gmt":"2011-11-17T15:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/72.167.124.155\/tilt-uptoday\/?p=750"},"modified":"2015-06-08T02:50:54","modified_gmt":"2015-06-08T07:50:54","slug":"1000-year-old-construction-solution-addresses-overcrowded-schools-sitecast-construction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tilt-up.org\/tilt-uptoday\/es\/2011\/11\/17\/1000-year-old-construction-solution-addresses-overcrowded-schools-sitecast-construction\/","title":{"rendered":"Una soluci\u00f3n constructiva con m\u00e1s de 100 a\u00f1os de antig\u00fcedad da respuesta al problema del hacinamiento en las escuelas \u2013 SiteCast Construction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-751\" title=\"2001_03-Ecole-Elementaire-008\" src=\"http:\/\/tilt-up.org\/tilt-uptoday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/2001_03-Ecole-Elementaire-008-290x290.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"290\" height=\"290\" \/><\/strong>(Ottawa, Canada<strong> \u2013 <\/strong> November 17, 2011) Mention overcrowded schools these days and you&#8217;re bound to hit an  emotional button \u2013 in new communities and older ones. Whether you&#8217;re  building a new school, adding a school addition or moving in portables,  you can&#8217;t seem to please everyone. But, when it comes to the actual  construction of the building, a technique that has been around since the  early 1900s is gaining popularity across Ontario and Canada. It&#8217;s  called concrete tilt-up panels and its list of benefits reads like it was discovered just for schools:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Speed\u2013 Classroom walls can be erected  in a few hours; an eight-classroom structure with washrooms and air  conditioning can be completed in mere weeks. A school can be built in as  little as six months.<\/li>\n<li>Energy Efficiency &#8211; The natural thermal mass properties of concrete reduce energy costs.  Tilt-up buildings offer an overall energy and life cycle performance  that is typically 20-60 percent more efficient. This translates into a  comfortable learning environment.<\/li>\n<li>Cost and Value \u2013Tilt-Up construction is the most cost effective solution for durable wall construction, and  why the use of tilt-up has exceeds a billion square feet of wall area  annually, globally.<\/li>\n<li>Durability: The natural properties  of a concrete insulated core help to protect against vandalism and  maintenance abuse. The inherent fire resistance of concrete allows  classrooms to be located closer to an existing school (attached in most  cases) without sacrificing valuable playgrounds or forcing students and  staff to walk outside during inclement weather.<\/li>\n<li>Versatility &#8211; The fluid properties  of concrete allows for any size, design and finish. Every school  addition can be designed and constructed to suit the architecture and  requirements of the existing school.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Concrete tilt-up is a construction technique whose name says what it is &#8212; concrete panels are cast on-slab, then <em>tilted<\/em> to install,&#8221; says Shawn Hickey, president of <a href=\"http:\/\/ctt.marketwire.com\/?docid=0745550001&amp;id=1005049&amp;type=0&amp;url=http%3a%2f%2fwww.sitecast.ca%2f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SiteCast Construction<\/a>,  Canada&#8217;s leading concrete tilt-up specialist. &#8220;When school or classroom  structures are built with tilt-up concrete panels, students and staff  study and work in a healthy, sound, safe, comfortable environment,  suitable for a productive work day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In 1999, SiteCast built its first school in Cumberland  Ontario using insulated concrete tilt-up panels. The school was built  three times faster than its sister school that was built using  conventional brick\/masonry construction. Within a few years, the school  had saved 38% on its energy costs. Since then SiteCast has worked with  general contractors and construction managers throughout Ontario to  build schools additions.<\/p>\n<p>To view a time-lapse video on the construction of Louis Riel School and a video on tilt-up construction, visit the SiteCast school resource centre: <a href=\"http:\/\/ctt.marketwire.com\/?docid=0745550001&amp;id=1005055&amp;type=0&amp;url=http%3a%2f%2fwww.sitecast.ca%2fschools\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.sitecast.ca\/schools<\/a><\/p>\n<h5>About SiteCast Construction<\/h5>\n<p>SiteCast Construction specializes in tilt-up panels to create  custom, superior building envelope solutions for retail, industrial,  commercial and institutional customers. For the past two decades,  SiteCast has been pushing the boundaries in what designers can do with  tilt-up and as such creates panels of any size, shape or texture.  SiteCast has produced more tilt-up structures than any other contractor  in Ontario. Projects in Ottawa include: Kanata Montessori School  (gymnasium and classroom additions), Louis Riel School (addition),  Canadian Bank Note (addition), Waste Services Inc. (waste transfer  facility) and the Coca Cola&#8217;s distribution facility, and many retail  centres, including LCBO, Staples, Starbucks, Subway and Blockbuster.  International projects include the Military Housing Project in Amman  Jordan and Eritrea Orphanage in Africa. <a href=\"http:\/\/ctt.marketwire.com\/?docid=0745550001&amp;id=1005058&amp;type=0&amp;url=http%3a%2f%2fwww.sitecast.ca%2f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.sitecast.ca<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">(Ottawa, Canad\u00e1 \u2013 17 de noviembre de 2011) Hoy en d\u00eda, basta con mencionar el tema de las escuelas saturadas para tocar una fibra sensible, tanto en las comunidades nuevas como en las m\u00e1s antiguas. Ya sea que se est\u00e9 construyendo una escuela nueva o ampliando una ya existente <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/tilt-up.org\/tilt-uptoday\/es\/2011\/11\/17\/1000-year-old-construction-solution-addresses-overcrowded-schools-sitecast-construction\/\" title=\"Una soluci\u00f3n constructiva con m\u00e1s de 100 a\u00f1os de antig\u00fcedad da respuesta al problema del hacinamiento en las escuelas \u2013 SiteCast Construction\"> Leer m\u00e1s\u2026<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":751,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,14],"tags":[57,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-750","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-industry","8":"category-member_news","9":"tag-schools","10":"tag-sitecast"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tilt-up.org\/tilt-uptoday\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750","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=750"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/tilt-up.org\/tilt-uptoday\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7418,"href":"https:\/\/tilt-up.org\/tilt-uptoday\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750\/revisions\/7418"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tilt-up.org\/tilt-uptoday\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tilt-up.org\/tilt-uptoday\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tilt-up.org\/tilt-uptoday\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tilt-up.org\/tilt-uptoday\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}