When you construct a new building, regardless of its purpose, you want a building that works, is attractive, reasonably priced, and efficient - a building in which you can take pride! You can have all of these benefits with tilt-up concrete construction.

Tilt-up concrete construction is not new; it has been in use since the turn of the century. Since the mid-1940s it has developed into the preferred method of construction for many types of buildings and structures. Nationwide, over 15% of all industrial buildings are tilt-up, ranging in size from 5,000 to over 1.5 million square feet. They are typified by their attractiveness, efficiency and longevity.

The building construction proceeds while the design is being developed, speeding completion. Tilt-up lends itself to this process because construction of the wall panels can proceed while the rest of the building is being designed.

You benefit from "assembly line" prefabrication. Load-bearing reinforced concrete wall panels are cast horizontally on the floor or a casting slab, and are tilted up into their final vertical position with high-capacity mobile cranes. The entire process is designed for efficiency and speed of erection.

In-place material costs are more competitive than pre-cast, masonry and steel structures; fewer skilled laborers are needed to achieve high-quality construction. In addition, the speed of erection and ease of other subcontractors' work, further reduces costs. Tilt-up is highly competitive with traditional construction for a wide range of building types.

Tilt-up is innovative. This highly efficient, practical method of construction makes beautiful buildings possible at costs that rival the most utilitarian industrial building. Tilt-up contractors are innovative, and continually work to improve tilt-up techniques.

Your new tilt-up concrete building will require less maintenance. The exterior can be left unpainted with no damage from the elements. If painting is desired, it need be repainted only every five to ten years. Concrete interiors are less subject to damage, and easier to wash down.

Any tilt-up structure can be an attractive building in which you can take pride. The large tilt-up panels lend themselves to a variety of decorative treatments:

• An unlimited array of colorings that can be added to the concrete mix or textured paints of any color may be used for beautiful effects.
• Textures produced with improvised techniques and form-liner cast surfaces in a variety of patterns, including striated, fractured fin, stone, brick and wood grains.
• Exposed aggregate and mechanical tooling surface treatments.