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Tight dimensional accuracy of BauGrid®
Welded Reinforcement Grids (WRG™) eliminates corkscrewing, reduces
congestion, allows for easier placement of cages, concrete and forms.
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On the 42-story St. Regis Museum project in San Francisco, one BauGrid®
Welded Reinforcement Grid replaced 32 hoops and cross ties, and
construction time was reduced from one floor every seven days to one
floor every 4 days.
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UCSD Tests Prove Structures
(Reinforced with BauGrid® WRG™) Can Be
Constructed Using Less Steel Than
Required by Current California Code
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View CBS coverage of testing in Real Player
University
of California, San Diego (UCSD) structural engineers have announced that a
violent simulation of the violent Northridge earthquake shook a
seven-story structure at the UCSD Jacobs School of Engineering's
Englekirk Structural
Engineering Center, resulting in only minor cosmetic damage to the
building. For more on this story, visit
constructiontechnologytoday.com |
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One contractor reported cage assembly
took half the time, with half the crew,
a 75% savings in cage assembly labor!! |
Replace messy, inefficient conventional
hoops and cross-ties with automatically welded BauGrids,
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