Table of Contents
CHAPTER 1—INTRODUCTION AND SCOPE
1.1—Introduction
CHAPTER 2—DEFINITIONS
CHAPTER 3––HISTORY, TRENDS, AND SUSTAINABILITY
3.1—History of tilt-up construction
3.2—Trends
3.3—Sustainability
CHAPTER 4—PRECONSTRUCTION PLANNING
4.1—Introduction
4.2—Site layout and crane access
4.3—Review of drawings
4.4—Production schedule
4.5—Submittals
4.6—Staging
4.7—Crews
4.8—Panel layout and erection
4.9—Casting beds and stack casting
4.10—Concrete placement and testing
4.11—Panel orientation and bracing
4.12—Safety planning
CHAPTER 5—FOUNDATIONS
5.1—Foundation systems
5.2—Continuous footings
5.3—Spread footings
5.4—Foundation walls
5.5—Deep foundations (piles and drilled piers)
5.6—Foundation elevation versus bottom of panel elevation
5.7—Backfill at loading dock high panels
CHAPTER 6—CONSIDERATIONS FOR SLAB-ONGROUND
CONSTRUCTION
6.1—Temporary construction loads
6.2—Floor slab (casting bed) preparation
6.3—Joints and openings
6.4—Slab closure strips (pour strips)
6.5—Floor slab repair
CHAPTER 7—WALL PANEL FORMING AND CASTING
7.1—Forming
7.2—Architectural treatments
7.3—Reinforcement placement
7.4—Steel embedment plates
7.5—Lifting and bracing inserts
7.6—Concrete placement, finishing, and curing
CHAPTER 8—PANEL ERECTION
8.1—Before erection
8.2—Rigging
8.3—Panel erection sequence
8.4—Safety
CHAPTER 9—CONNECTIONS
9.1—Design of connections
9.2—Foundation and slab-on-ground connections
9.3—Roof connections and supported floor connections
9.4—Panel-to-panel connections
9.5—Connections for higher seismic design categories
CHAPTER 10—FINISHING AND SEALING
10.1—Surface preparation
10.2—Repairs
10.3—Joints
10.4—Paints
CHAPTER 11—INSULATED PANELS
11.1—Insulated panels
11.2––Sandwich panels
11.3––Insulation