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Forming this project was the most difficult challenge, Pelletier says. Action Concrete used four different forming systems. For the walls on grade, the company was able to use typical aluminum forms. For the elevated columns they used a Gates Column Form System, which allowed them a faster turn around. "It allowed us to set the rebar, lower the gang form system over the rebar and pour right away," Pelletier says.

For the structural elevated flat slabs, Action Concrete used its PERI SkyDeck system which didn't require shoring and saved on labor. But the slabs with drop beams required a different system. Here they used a PERI Multiflex form system, Pelletier says. "Using the combination of these two different form systems for the slabs, we were able to utilize the benefits of each to make it work," Pelletier says.

Space was another issue, requiring Action Concrete to use its mobile tower crane to move all materials and equipment on the jobsite. And because they were working on an open campus, the company had restrictions on the times it could work as well.

Pelletier says that detailed planning both before and during the project was the key to it running smoothly.