Site visit 1: Pre-cast Concrete Panels

The Parade, Ocean Grove 24/3/2007

This building has pre-cast concrete panels as its primary
from of structure. The builder/architect would have
chosen pre-cast over tilt-up because of the sites tight
boundaries/close proximity to surrounding buildings.
This form of construction allows for relatively fast
erection thus saving the client time and money.

Here the temporary props are holding up the wall
whilst it is waiting to be secured. The steel beams
that will form the perimeter of the first floor have
just been installed.

In these two images we can see the point at which
the temporary props that support the pre-cast walls
meet the ground. They are fixed to brackets that were
placed in a strip footing, it is also possible to place
these temporary fixing brackets in a concrete slab.

This photo shows the point at which the temporary
prop meet the pre-cast wall, the is a fixing pretty much
the same to that of the ground yet the bracket has instead
been placed in the concrete panel when being
manufactured.