If you have ever driven past a construction site and seen massive cranes lifting huge panels of concrete in the air? Have you watched with amazement as a new commercial building or home seems to spring into place, almost overnight?
What you have witnessed is precast construction, an innovative cost effective, stronger material method for building anything with amazing speed, safety, and cost benefits.
So what is the difference between EnviroBuilt Systems and other types of Construction?
In traditional forms of wall construction, the walls can be built with wood, blocks or blocks faced with brick. For some types of buildings, the exterior wall is made up of structural steel columns with heavy gauge metal studs, covered with sheathing which is then faced with brick or stucco.
Regardless which traditional approach is used, building the exterior walls is a time-consuming, multi-stepped process using weaker and less than perfect materials. A precast tilt-up building’s walls are created in large slabs of concrete called panels. The panels are then lifted into position on engineered footers. This means the structure’s exterior wall is virtually finished when it is tilted into place. That stucco look is actually created in the concrete at the plant and coated on site with materials (ceramic Polymers) that reflect 70% of the sun’s light. The surface can be coated, stoned, bricked, planked and can take on a fascia that looks like any other home, but behind the skin is 5500PSI concrete that protects you from fire, wind, rot, bugs and water better than any conventional building system.
Precast tilt-up construction is fast becoming the method of choice for constructing modern buildings and other types of Industrial, Commercial and Residential Facilities.
Even with this innovation, this construction did not gain wide acceptance until after World War II, when the mobile crane was first developed. The mobile crane allowed builders far greater ability to lift the massive panels into place, regardless where the job site happened to be. At about this time, ready-mix concrete was introduced to the industry, making precast tilt up an even more viable alternative.
Over the years, industry experts have continued to refine and enhance the process, allowing contractors and design-build construction managers to ensure continued growth in quality and acceptance for this method of construction.
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Several terms – tilt-up panel construction, precast concrete building construction – are used to reference new or nontraditional cement building processes. Do they all mean the same thing? If not, what are the differences? Tilt-up concrete building, the walls are created by assembling forms and pouring large slabs of cement called panels directly at the job site.
The precast concrete building process is similar to tilt-up construction, but it addresses the challenges presented by weather. For precast concrete buildings, work crews do not set up forms at the job site to create the panels. Instead, workers pre cast concrete panels at a large manufacturing facility. Because the precast concrete forms are poured indoors, this activity can take place regardless the weather conditions. After curing, the precast concrete panels are trucked to the job site. From this point, precast concrete buildings are assembled in much the same manner as tilt-up buildings. Either way these building are far superior to conventional stick or block buildings.
Concrete Construction provides numerous Advantages over Traditional Construction.
The Advantages?
Benefits of a project built with precast construction continues long after it is completed:
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