{"id":16364,"date":"2022-06-14T09:21:58","date_gmt":"2022-06-14T14:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tilt-up.org\/tilt-uptoday\/?p=16364"},"modified":"2025-10-28T11:10:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T16:10:20","slug":"growing-pains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tilt-up.org\/tilt-uptoday\/2022\/06\/14\/growing-pains\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing Pains"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tilt-up.org\/tilt-uptoday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Barclay-Casual-r-1-783x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15501\" width=\"176\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tilt-up.org\/tilt-uptoday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Barclay-Casual-r-1-783x1024.jpg 783w, https:\/\/tilt-up.org\/tilt-uptoday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Barclay-Casual-r-1-229x300.jpg 229w, https:\/\/tilt-up.org\/tilt-uptoday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Barclay-Casual-r-1-768x1005.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tilt-up.org\/tilt-uptoday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Barclay-Casual-r-1.jpg 917w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 176px) 100vw, 176px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The current state of the tilt-up concrete market, from volume and opportunity standpoints, is the best it\u2019s ever been in my lifetime. If you are wanting to get into the tilt-up design and\/or construction market, now is the time. The market demand for this great product is at an all-time high!&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This huge tilt-up market demand is great. Whether you are a new tilt-up contractor or an established tilt-up contractor who has been in the business for decades, you can easily bid on tilt-up projects and be awarded as much tilt-up work as you desire.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bidding and being awarded the tilt-up work is the easy part right now. After being awarded the work, you then must perform and build it. This performing and building of the tilt-up product is the hard part and you are going to feel these growing pains once you start the preconstruction process!&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These industry growing pains are the worst I have seen in my lifetime. You may easily find yourself getting an award on a tilt-up project, and then start the procurement and preconstruction process only to discover you can\u2019t get the concrete material you need, the tilt-up brace and lift design is 8-10 weeks out, reinforcement shop drawings to fabrication is 8-10 weeks out, the manpower needed to make the construction schedule is short in every trade that is required to build a tilt-up project, and you may learn that there are no braces available to brace your tilt-up panels!&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Beware of all of these growing pains before you commit to bid and build any tilt-up project. What you don\u2019t realize when you are bidding on a tilt-up project can really harm you when you begin to construct the project!&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The best way to learn about and help solve these growing pains is to get involved with this great organization of people called the TCA!&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tilt-up.org\/tilt-uptoday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Barclay-Gebel-Signature-680-r-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15700\" width=\"193\" height=\"52\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tilt-up.org\/tilt-uptoday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Barclay-Gebel-Signature-680-r-1.jpg 680w, https:\/\/tilt-up.org\/tilt-uptoday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Barclay-Gebel-Signature-680-r-1-300x81.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 193px) 100vw, 193px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">The current state of the tilt-up concrete market, from volume and opportunity standpoints, is the best it\u2019s ever been in my lifetime. If you are wanting to get into the tilt-up design and\/or construction market, <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/tilt-up.org\/tilt-uptoday\/2022\/06\/14\/growing-pains\/\" title=\"Growing Pains\"> Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":15501,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[374],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16364","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-opinion-editorial"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tilt-up.org\/tilt-uptoday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tilt-up.org\/tilt-uptoday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tilt-up.org\/tilt-uptoday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tilt-up.org\/tilt-uptoday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tilt-up.org\/tilt-uptoday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16364"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/tilt-up.org\/tilt-uptoday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19109,"href":"https:\/\/tilt-up.org\/tilt-uptoday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16364\/revisions\/19109"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tilt-up.org\/tilt-uptoday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tilt-up.org\/tilt-uptoday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tilt-up.org\/tilt-uptoday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tilt-up.org\/tilt-uptoday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}