Additional Tilt-Up Resources

The primary resource for information on the design and construction of tilt-up concrete structures in the U.S. is the Tilt-Up Concrete Association (TCA). Some of the things TCA offers are:

The Tilt-Up Construction and Engineering Manual: A Comprehensive Reference Manual for Tilt-Up Contractors and Engineers 6^th edition (Sept 2007) provides extensive information on planning, designing, and building tilt-up structures. It includes a lengthy design example and many drawings of details and connections.
The Architecture of Tilt-Up,First Edition, was published in 2005 and guides architects to design the most aesthetically pleasing tilt-up buildings.
TCA also publishes a safety guide, bracing guidelines, and guide specifications in CSI format.
On TCA's web site there is information on many things related to tilt-up, including FAQs answered by Meadow Burke's David Kelly.
TCA publishes Tilt-Up Today, its member magazine, four times each year. The magazine also goes to interested nonmembers. A digital edition is also available.

Other sources of information include:

Portland Cement Association: PCA funded the development of the TCA in the 1980s and much of what's on PCA's page links visitors to the TCA site.
American Concrete Institute: ACI Committee 551, Tilt-Up Concrete Construction, has developed and published ACI 551R-92 (re-approved 2003), Tilt-Up Concrete Structures (currently being revised and updated by the committee) and ACI 551.1R-05, Tilt-Up Concrete Construction Guide.
The National Ready Mixed Concrete Association, in cooperation with TCA and with the Insulating Concrete Forms Association has a web site called Concrete Buildings. This site has some pretty good promotional info on tilt up—benefits, possibilities, contribution to sustainability; and a pretty good FAQ, especially on fire resistance.
Concrete Construction magazine has published many articles on tilt-up over the years and continues to run an intermittent tilt-up column. The magazine is the official media sponsor of TCA's annual meeting. Some good recent articles include "Minimizing Risks when Lifting and Bracing Today's Tilt-Up Structures" by Joe Steinbicker and Jim Baty (January 2005), "The Right Mix for Tilt-Up" by Jim Baty (January 2006), and "Shall We Tilt?" by Jim MacKinnon (January 2008).
Another web site that one might come across is www.tiltup.com, sponsored by Bob Moore Construction, Inc., Arlington, Texas. There is a little information here, although it really just focuses on the work of Bob Moore Construction.