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Lots of columns to erect? Save crane time for more profit

Crane time is a major cost in any construction project. When you succeed in limiting crane time, you will instantly lower your overall costs.

There’s a lot to be saved in projects which have a lot of columns to erect. Usually these buildings are built horizontally, they are low, and span ove...

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May 9, 2017

Installing column shoes into a precast mold

Compared to starter bars, column shoes are installed in the exact position by using endplates – goodbye to floppy corrugated pipes! If you are doing a...

April 28, 2017

3 ways to connect precast columns to foundation – choose yours!

Socket connection This is undoubtledly a tried and true method – to the extent that even the ancient Romans used it. They dug a hole in the ground, e...

March 29, 2017

Russia – to invest or not to invest?

Next to us sat a young Russian lady and we started to chat. She had never lived in Soviet Union (was born in 1992), was educated by an university in F...

January 30, 2017

Peikko in North America: 10 M$ milestone in sales reached in 2016

I joined Peikko in August 2005, and the innovator of Peikko’s DELTABEAM®, Jorma Kyckling, told me in the early autumn that he had made a deal with “on...

January 23, 2017

Assembling building frame in weather of -18 C degrees

Last week one old friend of mine from Spain visited Finland. We had a good time to talk about construction business in general, and compare practices ...

January 4, 2017

Peikko’s ECO Galvanized HPM Rebar Anchor Bolts and PPL Anchor Bolt Installation Templates Used in Stora Enso Project, Finland

The renewable materials company Stora Enso is investing into a EUR 70 million new polyethylene (PE) extrusion coating plant and Automated Roll Warehou...

November 23, 2016

Ready to face the wind in Norway!

One of the first ones is Tellenes windpark, an interesting project to be built in the middle of mountains. Fabulous scenarios, tough building conditio...

October 31, 2016

South Africa – Column Shoes used in major projects

A district referred to as Fourways is the fastest developing commercial- and residential hub in northern Sandton, north of Johannesburg, South Africa....

October 25, 2016

Peikko's Reinforcement Systems in residential construction

What was interesting, was the reason why a full precast solution was not considered for the project. The condominiums were sold parallel during the co...