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Specialty Buildings |
Commercial Remodeling |
Cabinet Shop |
Storm-Tested Buildings |
Bridges & Highway Retaining Walls
The precast concrete walls of five buildings, constructed by Speed Fab-Crete, remained intact during a devastating tornado which struck Fort Worth, Texas in 2000. None of the walls sustained structural failure despite 157-mile-per-hour winds!
Five buildings, with exterior precast concrete walls produced and installed by Speed Fab-Crete, were in the path of the 2000 Fort Worth, Texas tornado March 28. At each location, the walls remained intact! Three of the buildings re-opened within days despite total destruction around them.
At each building, the Speed Fab-Crete precast concrete wall system apparently was unaffected by the Fujita scale "F-2 category" winds up to 157 miles per hour. This is consistent with previous independent tests by the Construction Research Center at UT-Arlington. And, now an "F-2 category" tornado proved it!
Other Specialty Applications Using the Speed Fab-Crete Precast Concrete Wall Building System
The precast concrete walls are produced as "sandwich panels" for refrigerated facilities and church building customers in "colder climate" regions. Normally, the thickness of the wall is ten inches with a two-inch thick, rigid insulation board covered on both sides by concrete.
Other Precast Applications
- Electrical, blower & pump utility buildings
- Elevator shafts
- Bell towers
- Microwave and fiber optic transmission stations
- Vaults (Bank Protection Act approved)
- Chemical & munitions storage buildings
- Gymnasium & stadium bleachers
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