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SIERRA PINES II, A SIX-STORY CLASS A TILT-UP OFFICE BUILDING IS THE FIRST OF ITS KIND IN TEXAS. THE PROJECT IS SITUATED ON A SNUG 4-ACRE SITE LOCATED IN THE WOODLANDS, A 28,000-ACRE COMMUNITY IN SUBURBAN HOUSTON, TEXAS.

By: Mitch Bloomquist | Tilt-Up Concrete Association

CLASS A TILT?

Contrary to a once popular belief, class A tilt is not...

Written by Powers Brown Architecture’s Jeffrey Brown, Tiltwallism is designed to be an introductory resource to architects and an inspiration to contractors, developers and structural consultants who have encountered the technology of tilt wall construction. The vast amount of trade and technical information available on the subject is interpreted in a formal treatment for the first time on a...

This year’s show benefited the Houston Furniture Bank, The Texas Association for Interior Design (TAID) and The Houston Design Community. The Houston Furniture Bank is a non-profit organization whose mission statement is to “make empty houses into homes”. The IIDA Houston City Center is proud to support an organization that is actively changing the Houston community, one home at a time. The Texas Association for Interior Design (TAID) is an...

Houston-based Freeway Properties has broken ground on the first mid-rise office building to be built west of the Grand Parkway in Katy.

The six-story, 151,000-square-foot building, dubbed Katy Ranch Offices Phase, will be located immediately off the eastbound exit ramp in the 130-acre mixed-use Katy Ranch Crossing complex, and is scheduled for completion in the first quarter of 2015. The Class A-building will feature 24,800-square-foot floor plates with 45-foot...