Post-tensioning is not the answer to every structure, and we will say so when it's not. Where it does earn its place, it earns it decisively:
• Longer spans with fewer columns, more usable floor plate, more parking stalls per level, more leasable area from the same footprint.
• Thinner slabs, which compounds: less concrete, less reinforcing, lower floor-to-floor heights, and in a multi-story building, sometimes an entire additional level under the same height limit.
• Better crack control and deflection performance, because the slab is in compression rather than waiting to crack before the steel engages.
• Stiffer, more tolerant slabs-on-ground over the expansive soils that show up across the Front Range.
• Lower dead load carried down through the structure, which reaches all the way to the foundations and the piers.