"Tilt Slab"

Many Gisborne residents observed with interest the first "Lift Slab" operation in the city last year when the pre-stressed concrete floors of the Government Life building were jacked into position.

Builders of the New Zealand Fisheries building, opposite the harbour basin, employed a similar method recently when they poured the walls on the ground, and then lifted them into position with a mobile crane.

Commonly known as "Tilt Slab", this revolutionary method of construction saves the cost of boxing, and because of the smoothness obtained on the upper surfaces of the slabs, the expense of plastering the interior of the walls.

The operation was the first of its kind in Gisborne, and was considered a great success.