cast-in-place

Molded on location

Cast-in-place describes concrete poured and cured at its final location rather than precast elsewhere and transported.

The technique allows custom shapes and continuous structures: cast-in-place foundations, cast-in-place walls.

Construction workers build forms on site, pour the concrete, and remove the forms once it hardens.

Also hyphenated as cast-in-place or written as three words.

construction

concrete

Solid building mixture

foundation · slab · footing · reinforcement · rebar · curing · structural · continuous · joints · walls

piling

drilled

Pierced or rehearsed repeatedly

  • shaftNarrow vertical passage
  • augerSpiral hole-maker
  • boredLacking interest or engagement

caisson · pier · slurry · casing · socket · bearing · excavation · bentonite · friction · subgrade

Opposites
construction method/fabrication location

cast-in-placeprecast

Shaped before placement

prefabricated · prefab · modular · tilt-up · panelized

Family

cast, in, place, casting, caster, casters, castings, casts, recast

Familiarity
Top 1,000,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Rated G