Airway Commerce Center

Location

Reno, NV

Size

890,000-sq-ft

Delivery

CM-at-Risk

Designer

Tectonics Design Group

Four buildings are planned, a total of over 890,000 square feet. The building configuration is tilt-up—an economical form of precast concrete construction—which is common in our region for warehouses and low-rise office buildings. The buildings’ panelized walls are formed, reinforced, poured, and cured on top of the slab. Once the concrete has attained the required strength, crews use a crane to lift and set the panels in place and brace them. The wall panels will be structurally united with a steel joist and column-supported roof structure.

Deceptively simple, this kind of construction requires understanding space constraints, structural knowledge for sequencing of different panel types or due to unique building features, and precision placement of thousands of embedded parts for future structural connections, crane pick points, door and window openings, block-outs, joints, architectural treatments, and utilities.

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