Project: Devil’s Slide Tunnel – Custom Crown Forms Pacifica, California
UFP Plant: Thornton, California
Jared Hillier, concrete forming specialist, from Thornton, CA, helped a customer out of a hole when an entire forming system purchased from another company couldn’t be manufactured and delivered on time. The contractor needed UFP’s help for the Devil’s Slide Tunnel project, a twin-tunnel arrangement that will help reduce highway overflow traffic and create a shorter route. Each tunnel is more than 4,000 feet long.
When it was obvious that the first company could not come through for the project, the customer approached Jared with two design pictures and asked UFP to build the forms. After 22 forms were delivered, the customer called with a rush order for 11 more—all manufactured in less than a week.
Jared and his team at the Thornton plant worked with UFP’s Engineering Department to design and manufacture a custom form. The customer was pleased with UFP’s excellent service, fast reactions and turnaround, and with the quality of the forms.
This is one example of how Universal Forest Products helps customers take form, pour after pour.
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Universal Forest Products delivers all of your concrete forming product needs coast-to-coast from California and Texas on to the shores of Virgina ...and straight to your job site. Direct from our lumberyards or from the mill, we'll provide you with the forming products that help you take form—pour after pour. Whether it's a run-of-the-mill forming 
project or a custom job, UFP is here to help you and your project look good. Our team of product experts will work with you to fulfill your needs on time and within budget.
UFP's wide range of innovative concrete forming products is just right for your formwork and shoring project needs. Universals forming products include dimensional lumber, architectural form plywood, wet curing blankets and floor protection material, concrete forming panels, OSHA-approved wood scaffold planks, engineered wood products, plated trusses, beam sides, edge forms, forming boards, load transfer products and even Gates Concrete Systems.
Need a concrete form designed? UFP's engineering department will design or engineer custom wood forms to meet your unique needs.
Universal has teamed up with Gates & Sons, the leader in labor-efficient concrete forming systems, to provide solutions for a wide variety of commercial concrete forming projects. Both UFP and Gates specialize in custom forms built to meet your job specifications, but with Gates. Let Universal Forest Products and Gates help you save time and money on your next concrete forming job.
From column forms to concrete wall construction forms, UFP and Gates Concrete Forming Systems have a safe, fast solution for your custom concrete forming needs. Best of all, Gates forming systems are available for lease or purchase through UFP’s national concrete forming products network.
Our concrete forming products team works directly with Gates to provide solutions for your column 
forming needs. Column forms using Gates Lok Fast Column Clamp is a great great choice for both custom one-time pours and for multiple-column pour projects like parking garages, high-rise structures, highway bridges and more. Gates column forms can be ganged for higher columns, which will save time and overall project cost.
About Gates & Sons
Since 1948, Gates has been supplying the concrete forming industry with streamlined system-based solutions for concrete forming. Gates & Sons is the industry leader in pre-assembled forming systems in the U.S. A Gates motto is, "Make your forms fit the job. Don't try to make your job fit the forms." UFP and Gates are of the same mindset: We want construction companies to think of their job as a custom job, because chances are, it is.
Project: Custom-designed Precast
Location: West Michigan
Universal Facility: Granger, Indiana
Custom-designed Precast Project DetailsA West Michigan company that specializes in specialty pre-cast products was looking for a new design idea for a poured, pre-cast staircase to be used in a 256-space
parking garage. The company typically purchases
precast stairs from specialty pre-cast shops. Universal Forest Products not only provided the customer with the custom design it needed for this one-of-a-kind job, but supplied release agent,
pre-engineered truss frames, CNC-routed stair stringers and plywood.
This custom precast project is the first for which the company manufactured its own stair sets. UFP impressed the customer with design work and with service.
This is one example of how Universal Forest Products helps customers take form, pour after pour.
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On the job site, the old adage "time is money" has never been more true than it is today. With crews looking to trim costs at every turn, they also want to deliver a quality product. When your job calls for it, Universal Forest Products has a wide variety of concrete forming options to maximize your crew's performance.
UFP offers dimensional lumber, panels, engineered wood products, plated trusses and beam sides. And because we operate our own fleet of trucks, we'll deliver your forming material on time to your job site in full or partial truckloads.
Our concrete forming dimensional wood is perfect for beam sides, walls, forms and stakes. It's made from treated lumber and available in all grades and sizes—including cut-to-length. Dimensonal lumber is also ideal for retaining walls.
Beam sides and edge forms can be pre-built or custom-built to exact specifications. They are suitable for support beams and are available in HDO, MDO, BB and PSF Phenolic surface finishes. The ends of the beam sides overhang to allow for proper concrete release.
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