Market Insights: U.S.
Field Summit Lands in Hawaii as Tilt-Up Momentum Builds
A locally driven Field Summit in Hawaii responds directly to one of the region’s biggest challenges: getting tilt-up considered before projects are already defined
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Stories and analyses reflecting trends, data, and regional dynamics within the United States tilt-up market.
Leadership & Mentorship
Mentorship as Infrastructure
Mentorship in the tilt-up industry is not a program or initiative, but a quiet, essential system for transferring judgment, responsibility, and standards across generations of professionals.
Structural Engineering
TCA Releases Engineering Tilt-Up
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 building system — has announced the release of Engineering Tilt-Up. The newest Read more…
Education
Tilt-Up Concrete Association Announces Engineering Seminar Series
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 building system – will present an engineering seminar series titled, “Applying the Read more…
Events
Tilt-Up Concrete Association Announces New Speaker to Round out Convention Presentations
The Tilt-Up Concrete Association (TCA) has announced the addition of Kim Basham PhD, PE, to the 2012 TCA Convention line-up. Basham, President of KB Engineer, LLC, will present “Controlling Cracks in Slabs” a session focused Read more…
Events
Tilt-Up Concrete Association Expands Education, Membership into Latin America
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 building system – has announced the success of its first major offshore Read more…
Education
Building the Future – Students Participate in Tilt-Up Demonstration
Over 140 students at Pittsburg State University, Pittsburg, Kansas, participated in the nation’s first college-level “tilt-up” concrete panel demonstration over the last two semesters at the Kansas Technology Center. Seth O’Brien, an instructor in the Read more…
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Convention Wrap Up
KANSAS CITY, HERE WE COME What’s the phrase they use in the movies – “It’s a wrap?” That phrase certainly applies to the 2010 Annual Convention completed this past October in Irvine, California. The convention Read more…
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Expanding Tilt-Up to the Middle East
For nearly a decade, members of the design and construction community have been exploring opportunities to expand their business into the Middle East. While many have pursued work in locations such as Dubai, one innovative Tilt-Up Read more…
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ACI Introduces New Tilt-Up Panel Design Guide
Those familiar with the document development at ACI know that it is not a speedy process. In part, that is intentional. It allows ample time for review, dissenting opinions, and for resolution of differences. It is Read more…
Sustainability & Resilience
MIT’s New Concrete Sustainability Hub (CSH)
Concrete is the most widely used building material on the planet; however, the production of some of its component materials account for up to five percent of global carbon dioxide emissions annually. To address the Read more…
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Surviving the Economy
By: Wendy Ward It is no secret that 2009 presented many challenges for members of the design and construction community. One of the best ways to develop ideas for how to weather an economic downturn is by speaking Read more…