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Tilt-Up Building Trends

Tilt-up is not a new building system, having been used for more than 100 years. But its efficiency, flexibility, and speed of construction have emerged over the past 20 years to drive its growth. In the early 1980s most tilt-up buildings were stark concrete boxes—warehouses or big box stores. Today's tilt-up buildings incorporate an endless variety of panel shapes, colors, and decorative features.

The Tilt-Up Concrete Association (TCA) estimates that 300 million square feet of tilt-up panels are constructed in the U.S. each year—about 10,000 structures enclosing more than 750 million square feet of space. Concrete Construction magazine's CC100 listing indicates that revenue for tilt-up construction among its top 100 concrete contractors grew from $667 million in 2006 to $960 million in 2007 and that 43 of the CC100 companies made more than $1 million on tilt-up in 2007.

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