TAC System Formwork allows high rise buildings to be built at a rate of one complete floor every 4 days (or six floors a month); everything including:
How can such an extraordinary rate of production be consistently achieved?
The answer is "CYCLING":
- Divide the typical floor into 4 work zones;
- Divide the work into 4 tasks for 4 work teams;
- Each team works in a different zone & simply carries out the same task every day;
- Size the teams so that all members are fully occupied every day;
- Every 4 days a work cycle is completed and a new floor built.
Structural work on site divides into four main tasks:
- Erect and strike vertical forms (walls & column forms)
- Erect and strike horizontal forms (slabs)
- Install deck steel and M&E ducting
- Pour the concrete
These tasks follow a logical sequence. Each task is performed by a separate team which specializes in that task.
A simplistic example:
Assume a restangle building; divide floor into four work zones.
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DAY 1:
Wall Forming Team starts in Zone A.
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DAY 2:
Wall forming team moves to Zone B; and slab forming team starts in Zone A. |
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DAY 3:
Wall forming team moves to Zone C; slab forming team moves to Zone B; and Barbender+M&E starts in Zone A.
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DAY 4:
Wall forming team moves to Zone D; slab forming team moves to Zone C; Barbender+M&E moves to Zone B; and pouring concrete team starts in Zone A. |
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DAY 5 (Typical):
Now all teams are on cycle. |
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