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The BauGrid®
Reinforcement System is protected by U.S., Japanese and European patents.
BauGrid® reinforced
structural members have been extensively tested in research
laboratories at five universities and two national
laboratories.
The BauGrid®
Reinforcement System has been issued Evaluation Report
ER-5192 by ICBO
Evaluation Services Inc., a subsidiary corporation of the
International Conference of Building Officials (ICBO), which
publishes the Uniform Building Code that governs construction in
many U.S. cities.
The BauGrid® Reinforcement System, with its
dimensionally exact BauGrids®, enables in-plant automation of the
assembly of cages, in-plant installation of forms and cladding,
and on-site bottom-up pumping of concrete. Conventional
reinforcement is not dimensionally accurate enough to allow
automation of cage assembly. Onsite, the BauCages™ are rapidly set and easily
connected using BauTech’s proprietary SpliceGrids™ at the common
vertical edges of the 12-foot wide BauCages™. Forms are speedily
set around the dimensionally exact BauCages™ and concrete is rapidly
placed and vibrated the full height of the HOOK-FREE "cells" of the
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The BauGrid® Reinforcement
System has been issued a City of Los Angeles Research Report,
RR25438, which approves its use in the City of Los Angeles, based upon ICBO ES Report ER-5192.
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Similar approvals have been
issued for the use of the BauGrid® Reinforcement System in the
cities of San Francisco, Oakland, San Diego, Daly City and Long
Island, New York.
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Testing of
BauGrid®
reinforced structural members made with high strength concrete (138 Mpa) has shown ductile performance superior to structural members
reinforced with conventional reinforcement.
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The Precast Seismic
Structural Systems (PRESSS) research project, partially funded by
the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Precast/Prestressed
Concrete Institute (PCI), showed that constructability of it's hybrid
structural system depended upon the BauGrid®
Reinforcement System. It was determined that using
conventional reinforcement was not economical.
BauGrids® save labor in both cage
fabrication and installation, and eliminate congestion, speed up
concrete placement and form setting, and expedite schedules while
providing superior ductility. With ±1/8" manufacturing tolerance, BauGrids® provide accurate vertical
bar location, making it possible to install a two-story BauCage™ with
vertical rebar couplers in less than 30 minutes.
For more information, or consultation
on how we can help you to "Advance Construction Performance"
on your next project; please contact Hanns
Baumann at (949) 361-0888, or send e-mail to
hanns@BauTech.com.
Unique
Features of the BauGrid® Reinforcement System
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