"rbowman" wrote in message
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On 03/27/2019 11:02 AM, Jac Brown wrote:


"rbowman" wrote in message
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On 03/26/2019 10:47 PM, Jac Brown wrote:


"rbowman" wrote in message
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On 03/26/2019 01:21 PM, TimR wrote:
Do you have enough room to do a tilt up? (need wall height and a
little more in all directions)


What are you tilting up?

Concrete walls poured locally.

that sounds like a 'hold my beer and watch this' moment.

Most of the single story commercial building is done that way
here, by people paid quite a bit more than the minimum wage.
A few houses too.

I've never seen it. I'm not arguing, just saying I haven't seen the
technique.

http://tiltup.com/

"Tilt-up construction allows general contractors to build a wide range of
commercial buildings more quickly and with lower construction costs than
what is typical for traditional masonry construction projects. Texas,
California and Florida are currently the most popular states for tilt-up
concrete construction. In northern states with more severe winter
climates, Precast concrete buildings are more popular."

That explains a lot since I've lived my life in the north, but I haven't
seen precast around here either.

Yeah, ours is mostly like your south/texas etc.

https://slate.com/business/2018/03/t...-go-wrong.html

Few bugs to work out for bridge construction, I guess.

Yeah, we had one of those ourselves.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Gate_Bridge#Collapse

In one of my freshman classes at college they showed a film of the Tacoma
Narrows bridge as an object lesson in how not to do it.

Yeah, I have recently watched an entire series on the most
famous bridges around the world. Pretty spectacular failure.