EFCO offers formwork and shoring solutions for all types of concrete construction projects. EFCO, formerly known as Economy Forms Corporation, is headquartered in
Des Moines, Iowa
Des Moines () is the capital and the most populous city in the U.S. state of Iowa. It is also the county seat of Polk County. A small part of the city extends into Warren County. It was incorporated on September 22, 1851, as Fort Des Moine ...
, and currently has operations in 12 countries and manufacturing facilities in both Des Moines, Iowa, and
Georgetown, Ontario
Georgetown is a large unincorporated community in the town of Halton Hills, Ontario, Canada, in the Regional Municipality of Halton. The town includes several small villages or settlements such as Norval, Limehouse, Stewarttown and Glen Wil ...
, Canada. EFCO is privately held, employee-owned, and continues today in its second, third, and fourth generations of leadership with Scott Walter, the great-grandson of EFCO’s founder, W. A. Jennings, serving as the president and CEO of the organization. W. A. Jennings started EFCO as Economy Forms Corporation in 1934.
FORMWORK
EFCO’s product offering includes formwork and shoring solutions for commercial and residential high-rise buildings, bridges, highways, stadiums, water treatment facilities, power plants, tunnels, mining, industrial, civil, and transportation projects.
ENGINEERING
EFCO is known worldwide for high-quality and innovative products and engineered solutions for concrete forming and shoring construction projects. The EFCO engineering team is the leader in the industry for solving some of the most challenging project opportunities in the concrete forming industry. This team focuses on project design‚ cycling of equipment‚ cost savings, and the quality of the finished concrete and provides these solutions as part of EFCO’s form erection drawings supplied to the construction project.
FIELD SERVICE
EFCO field supervisors provide job site assistance with formwork assembly and cycling, using the EFCO drawings, and they assist with the development of methods and procedures to promote safety and productivity.
EFCO ONLINE
EFCO ONLINE provides internet access to order all EFCO products via the internet 24 hours a day and 7 days a week if you have signed a user agreement.
EFCO CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION & FORMING INSTITUTE
Designed with the future concrete construction industry in mind, EFCO offers hands-on instruction and training to customers in EFCO’s Concrete Construction and Forming Institute training facility for all of EFCO’s forming and shoring equipment.
Product overview
The product range includes handset, radius, and heavy-duty formwork girders, column formwork, various shoring systems, a variety of slab formwork systems, aluminum posts, jump systems, self-climbing systems, tie systems, services, software and training.
Notable projects
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Wilshire Grand Tower
Wilshire Grand Center is a skyscraper in the financial district of downtown Los Angeles, California, occupying the entire city block between Wilshire Boulevard and 7th, Figueroa, and Francisco streets. Completed in 2017, it is the tallest bui ...
- Los Angeles, California
* World Trade Center Tower One - New York, New York
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Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas
The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas (commonly referred to simply as The Cosmopolitan or The Cosmo) is a resort casino and hotel on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada. The resort opened on December 15, 2010, and is located just south of the B ...
- East Tower, Las Vegas, Nevada
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Project City Center - City Center Casino & Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada
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Trump Tower
Trump Tower is a 58-story, mixed-use skyscraper at 721–725 Fifth Avenue in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City, between East 56th and 57th Streets. The building contains the headquarters for the Trump Organization, as well ...
- Las Vegas, Nevada
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San Diego Convention Center
The San Diego Convention Center is the primary convention center in San Diego, California. It is located in the Marina district of downtown San Diego near the Gaslamp Quarter, at 111 West Harbor Drive. The center is managed by the San Diego Co ...
- San Diego, California
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Prado Dam
Prado Dam is an earth-fill dry dam across the Santa Ana River at the Chino Hills near Corona, California in Riverside County with the resulting impounded water creating Prado Flood Control Basin reservoir. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers built ...
- Corona, California
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O'Hare International Airport
Chicago O'Hare International Airport , sometimes referred to as, Chicago O'Hare, or simply O'Hare, is the main international airport serving Chicago, Illinois, located on the city's Northwest Side, approximately northwest of the Loop busines ...
- Chicago, Illinois
* Indianapolis Colts - Indianapolis, Indiana
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Estadio Nacional de Panamá
Estadio Nacional de Panama, also called the Rod Carew National Stadium, is a multi-purpose stadium in Panama City, Panama. The stadium has a capacity of 27,000 and was built in 1999.
It is currently used mostly for baseball matches from the natio ...
(Panama National Stadium) - Panama City, Panama
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Eastlands Stadium - Manchester, England
* Juan Soldado Bridge - La Serena, Chile
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U.S. Bank Stadium
U.S. Bank Stadium is an enclosed stadium located in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota. Built on the former site of the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, the indoor stadium opened in 2016 and is the home of the Minnesota Vikings of the National Footbal ...
- Minneapolis, Minnesota
* Ariari River Bridge Puerto Lieras - Meta, Colombia
* Ottawa Light Rail Transit - Ottawa, Ontario
* Balcones de Chilina - Chilina, Peru
* I-4 Ultimate Project - Orlando, Florida
* The Sentral Residences - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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Panama Metro
The Panama Metro ( es, Metro de Panamá) is a rapid transit system in Panama City, Panama. It links the south and the east of the metropolitan area to the city center. The metro was inaugurated on April 5, 2014, and it entered revenue service tw ...
- Panama City, Panama
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Sam Rayburn Tollway
The Sam Rayburn Tollway (formerly the State Highway 121 Tollway) is a tollway operated by the North Texas Tollway Authority that runs from Grapevine to McKinney. Its frontage road are signed State Highway 121.
The original portion of the toll ...
- Texas
* Calumet Water Treatment Plant - Chicago, Illinois
* West Closure Complex - New Orleans, Louisiana
* United States DOF Minute Man Missile Silos & Control Centers - United States
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Arena Ciudad de Mexico - Mexico City, Mexico
* Cape Canaveral Power Plant - Cocoa Beach, Florida
See also
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Formwork
Formwork is molds into which concrete or similar materials are either precast or cast-in-place. In the context of concrete construction, the falsework supports the shuttering molds. In specialty applications formwork may be permanently ...
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Climbing formwork
Climbing formwork, also known as jumpform, is a special type formwork for vertical concrete structures that rises with the building process. While relatively complicated and costly, it can be an effective solution for buildings that are either ver ...
References
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External links
EFCO Official site
Construction and civil engineering companies of the United States
Companies based in Des Moines, Iowa