11/01/2008
Tilt-Up Construction in The Military Engineer Magazine
As the U.S. government continues to leverage technology and concepts from the commercial construction industry to meet the building challenges of the MILCON transformation, tilt-up construction has become a solution in many circumstances. The strengths of the tilt-up method work directly toward the stated goals of the MILCON Transformation—15% cost savings, 30% time savings, and quality facilities with a 50-year life cycle. For the MILCON Transformation, tilt-up can also be designed to provide achievement of anti-terrorism/force protection goals. Tilt-up has proven to be a commercially viable, off-the-shelf technology, and it can do the same for the MILCON transformation.
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