With tilt-up concrete, the wall panels are also cast, but the casting is done on site. This method required a fairly wide-open site that can accommodate tilting the walls into place.

Unlike cast-in-place concrete, precast systems allow for off-site manufacturing under controlled conditions. This improves the quality of the structure, while also reducing waste and labor. The CRETE ...

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Between the two is a continuous layer of extruded polystyrene insulation. With the concrete left exposed on both sides, this construction method allowed the exterior cladding, insulation, vapor ...

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A New York startup called Automatic Construction has developed an ingenious technique that lets its workers blow up a house and pump concrete inside its walls. Your future home could be inflated ...

It's also the first cast-in-place, board-formed concrete house in Sarasota. In fact, the home is comprised of three primary materials: board-formed concrete, cedar wood and impact glass.

In total, the EHT engineers installed eleven high-performance concrete and carbon fiber slabs to form the 861-square-foot, 15-tonne ceiling that connects the lower floor of the DFAB house with a ...

The 3D-printed concrete can handle overhangs and can easily be programmed to print out curved, tilted or complexly textured walls that normally would require a lot of custom formwork to cast on site.

Grafted made the concrete corbels by hand, creating moulds of plywood and foam to cast each of the 82 precast panels required. "Fabricating the panels in-house gave us more control over the detail ...