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Zensteeldude

Mar 22, 2010, 10:29 PM

I remember when it was decided not to use a central plant like the old complex. As I recall, it had something to do with the Hudson River fish. It also led to the office towers being designed a little higher.

Now that the Hudson has fish again.:D

Yea, the first plant had to cool but 2 towers and some low rise buildings. It would take a huge central plant to cool 4 towers and the Hub and the Memorial. (The new plant cools the Memorial and the Hub.)

eaalkaline

Mar 23, 2010, 7:17 AM

Sorry to keep talking about the twins, but is any of the steel being used in this tower?

I'm not sure how much steel was actually recovered and recycled from Ground Zero, but about 7 tons of steel from the Twins was melted down and used for the construction of the USS New York's bow.

RockMont

Mar 23, 2010, 2:59 PM

That was a good question, though.

NYguy

Mar 23, 2010, 4:48 PM

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FerrariEnzo

Mar 23, 2010, 6:16 PM

This goes without saying but I'll go ahead and be Captain Obvious. -This will be the single most photographed construction of all time.- Any contenders that I am missing? Burj Dubai with all of its phallic glory does not have the amount of lenses and eyeballs this one has fixated on it.

2-TOWERS

Mar 23, 2010, 6:57 PM

your right it is by a long shot the most photographed....and the observatory deck will probably be a major tourist spot surpassing ol faithful E.S.B. as the busiest.........

NYC4Life

Mar 23, 2010, 7:47 PM

Imagine how that last shot would have looked like if all 4 towers were under construction.

evanmack

Mar 23, 2010, 8:22 PM

^^^ Yeah that's depressing.

FerrariEnzo

Mar 23, 2010, 9:18 PM

Imagine how that last shot would have looked like if all 4 towers were under construction.

and transit hub, and above ground museum, and cultural center and Deutche bank property...

37TimPPG

Mar 23, 2010, 9:44 PM

Does anyone know how far behind the Concrete Core is? I know they are working on the Office floors currently - just curious to know where the Core is at the moment? Thanks!

NYguy

Mar 24, 2010, 12:20 AM

and transit hub, and above ground museum, and cultural center and Deutche bank property...

Work on the transit hub is going on, you can see the excavation continuing in that last shot, and the Deutche Bank is coming down faster now. The memorial voids are pretty much there.

And somewhere, at the end of this view, the Freedom Tower rises...

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Zensteeldude

Mar 24, 2010, 1:56 AM

This year well see much progress at the entire WTC site. The big hole on the west side well start filling in soon.

AtlantaMustang

Mar 24, 2010, 1:57 AM

:previous: That view is going to be amazing once its finished! :tup:

sw5710

Mar 24, 2010, 2:43 AM

with 2 office floors at a time going up. How do they put the steel floor on the lower floor if they put it on the above floor 1st?

uaarkson

Mar 24, 2010, 3:39 AM

with 2 office floors at a time going up. How do they put the steel floor on the lower floor if they put it on the above floor 1st?

The decking is corrugated sheet metal and is placed by hand.

sw5710

Mar 24, 2010, 4:56 AM

The decking is corrugated sheet metal and is placed by hand.

Thanks .

J_M_Tungsten

Mar 24, 2010, 1:32 PM

So will they finish up the curving of the road before OWTC and the memorial is built?

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4066/4452521264_a8e6fc6fdc_b.jpg

SkyscrapersOfNewYork

Mar 24, 2010, 3:50 PM

i know im probrally gonna get yelled at for asking but...when is cladding going to begin?

Domamania

Mar 24, 2010, 4:27 PM

i know im probrally gonna get yelled at for asking but...when is cladding going to begin?

what is cladding?

SkyscrapersOfNewYork

Mar 24, 2010, 5:21 PM

what is cladding?

its the installation of the building's exterior windows,glass,steel ect.

Ghost

Mar 24, 2010, 5:25 PM

i know im probrally gonna get yelled at for asking but...when is cladding going to begin?
http://www.panynj.gov/wtcprogress/milestones.html

Q3

SkyscrapersOfNewYork

Mar 24, 2010, 5:33 PM

http://www.panynj.gov/wtcprogress/milestones.html

Q3

thanks alot

NYguy

Mar 24, 2010, 10:13 PM

Cam shot, couple of minutes ago..

http://www.pbase.com/nyguy/image/123012591/large.jpg

Innsertnamehere

Mar 25, 2010, 12:06 AM

does anybody know if that big red crane is going to leave soon? Because the building looks like its getting too tall!! :banana: (for the crane)

Acer1

Mar 25, 2010, 4:10 AM

does anybody know if that big red crane is going to leave soon? Because the building looks like its getting too tall!! :banana: (for the crane)

They'll have to add extenders on the boom for the mobile cranes so it can lay more steel on the top. It'll keep getting extended until it's 1776' in height. I mean, how else will they raise that spire that goes on top?

NYguy

Mar 25, 2010, 1:11 PM

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toymatz121

Mar 25, 2010, 1:36 PM

Why are the first two office floors shaped as square when viewed from above? Is it not suppose to be another octagon in reverse going up?

Ghost

Mar 25, 2010, 1:41 PM

Why are the first two office floors shaped as square when viewed from above? Is it not suppose to be another octagon in reverse going up?
Actually it is...

Great updates, great progress. I have to visit NYC in 2012 or 2013 :P

toymatz121

Mar 25, 2010, 1:48 PM

Actually it is...

Great updates, great progress. I have to visit NYC in 2012 or 2013 :P

So that explains the "weird-looking" corner columns..:yes:

Domamania

Mar 25, 2010, 4:16 PM

wow a week and a half and they are going up again they are really picking up real fast speed.

androo_k

Mar 25, 2010, 5:01 PM

They'll have to add extenders on the boom for the mobile cranes so it can lay more steel on the top. It'll keep getting extended until it's 1776' in height. I mean, how else will they raise that spire that goes on top?

I hope your kidding lol Hello, that's what tower cranes are for.

uaarkson

Mar 25, 2010, 5:36 PM

are people in today's societies losing the mental capacity to detect sarcasm? more on this story coming up.

Puzzlecraft

Mar 25, 2010, 6:26 PM

The upper third of the SE corner transition just went in.

BStyles

Mar 25, 2010, 7:02 PM

Egad. It's becomming to tall for the earthcam!

Floors 23 and 24 will barely fit on the earthcam, about to floors 42 or 43 on the RBGZ cam, and then most of us will have to go to the site ourselves to see. Unless of course, they move the cameras upward.:D

uaarkson

Mar 25, 2010, 7:34 PM

I wouldn't be surprised if the RGBZ guy rearranged his cam, since Earthcam has the memorial completely covered.

RockMont

Mar 25, 2010, 7:39 PM

what is cladding?

In other words, the skin. Just like the bones, which is the work that is currently in progress.

Puzzlecraft

Mar 25, 2010, 9:57 PM

Looks like the NE corner is in too! Just out of the webcam, but the east facing horizontal corner beam is in for floor 23 and presumably not connected to air.....

Big Red's current duty is just about done.

Zensteeldude

Mar 25, 2010, 11:21 PM

Pics by Lofter1 over at WNY.

The 16000 did it with about 10 feet to spare. The first of the third section of a corner node is in.
http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p242/Lofter1/WTC/1%20WTC/100325_1WTCCorner_07.jpg

Better sense of scale here.
http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p242/Lofter1/WTC/1%20WTC/100325_1WTCCorner_10.jpg

http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p242/Lofter1/WTC/1%20WTC/100325_1WTCCorner_16.jpg

Indescribable

Mar 25, 2010, 11:28 PM

NYGuy, do you know which cemetary that is?

Zensteeldude

Mar 26, 2010, 12:11 AM

what is cladding?

The technical term for it is "curtain wall", the exterior skin of the building.

GioFX

Mar 26, 2010, 12:14 AM

NYGuy, do you know which cemetary that is?

It's the old cemetery of the St. Paul's Chapel, across Church Street.

Gateway395

Mar 26, 2010, 12:16 AM

NYGuy, do you know which cemetary that is?

Saint Paul's Chapel

www.saintpaulschapel.org

NYC4Life

Mar 26, 2010, 12:19 AM

NYGuy, do you know which cemetary that is?

The chapel and cemetery are also associated with Trinity Church, which is located right on Broadway near the WTC site.

2-TOWERS

Mar 26, 2010, 3:24 AM

wow ....work is really moving fasttttttttttttttttt......look how small the workers are...there is your answer on how massive the steel is!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

NYguy

Mar 26, 2010, 4:35 AM

NYGuy, do you know which cemetary that is?

Your question was answered already, but here are a couple of older shots from the same cemetary...

http://www.pbase.com/nyguy/image/120452931/large.jpg

http://www.pbase.com/nyguy/image/120452979/large.jpg

From the NY Times...

http://www.pbase.com/nyguy/image/123038906/large.jpg

http://www.pbase.com/nyguy/image/123038906/original.jpg

http://www.pbase.com/nyguy/image/123038970/original.jpg

Spud

Mar 26, 2010, 5:56 AM

That's one huge construction site. It's all rather exciting. I'm going to have to have a bit of a lie down!

eaalkaline

Mar 26, 2010, 10:01 AM

Pics by Lofter1 over at WNY.

http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p242/Lofter1/WTC/1%20WTC/100325_1WTCCorner_16.jpg

Wow, that's a really cool picture of the corner node from the side-- looks a lot more dramatic than I thought it would. Thanks for posting!

NYguy

Mar 26, 2010, 12:02 PM

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1260816/Pictured-Americas-daring-ironworkers-stride-girders-hundreds-feet-ground-Ground-Zero.html?ITO=1490

True Grit: America's daring ironworkers walk the girders just like their forefathers as they rebuild at Ground Zero

By Mail Foreign Service
26th March 2010

It is a symbol of blue-collar America at its very best.

The daring ironworker strides confidently across a foot-wide steel girder, hundreds of dizzying feet above the ground.

The images echo the famous 1932 picture of the riveters balanced vertiginously above the city streets while they ate the lunch during the building of the Rockefeller Centre.

But these incredible pictures were taken yesterday...

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/03/26/article-0-08DF78B7000005DC-518_634x406.jpg

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/03/26/article-0-08DF78C7000005DC-277_634x421.jpg

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/03/26/article-1260816-08DF78EB000005DC-535_634x770.jpg
One World Trade Center, also known as the Freedom Tower, is under construction by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/03/26/article-0-08DF5120000005DC-317_634x430.jpg
World Trade Center Tower 4, centre left, under construction by developer Larry Silverstein

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/03/26/article-0-026783B3000004B0-733_634x422.jpg
Workmen relax and eat their lunch on a girder at the Rockefeller Centre in New York in the famous photo 'Lunch Atop A Skyscraper' by Charles Ebbets taken in 1932.

Larger view

http://www.pbase.com/nyguy/image/123042780/original.jpg

canadate

Mar 26, 2010, 1:01 PM

^^ Those have to be the most amazing photos that I've seen of Tower 1 to this date! Much props to the photographer that took those and thanks for posting that here NYguy :tup:

SteveD

Mar 26, 2010, 1:17 PM

That black and white Charles Ebbets image is one of my favorite images of all time.

2-TOWERS

Mar 26, 2010, 1:54 PM

yeah...thanks NY GUY amazing pics... the corner nod is one huge piece....also its amazing how precise the steel is... all that construction and piece by piece is perfect . Amazingly perfect for the sheer size it is:tup:

BStyles

Mar 26, 2010, 1:58 PM

Looks like the 16000's job is over? The tower cranes can lift the perimeter columns, right?

mr.John

Mar 26, 2010, 7:56 PM

I'm willing to bet most of those ironworkers (the connectors) are Mowhawks from Kahnawake a suburb (reserve)south of Montreal
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kahnawake

NYguy

Mar 26, 2010, 9:03 PM

Update from morrongiello (http://www.flickr.com/photos/morrongiello/4464765967/sizes/l/) (March 26)

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2706/4464765967_f4c6bab1d1_b.jpg

kenratboy

Mar 27, 2010, 5:28 AM

Did they switch steel types (the treated red to the rust brown), or will they just be spraying on the fire insulation later (turning ti whitish)?

JSsocal

Mar 27, 2010, 8:26 AM

The "raw steel," will get spray-on fire proofing, while the bright red will not. The paint itself is the fire proofing, and the reason it isn't being coated like the rest of the steel is because the sleeves for the columns would be too thick otherwise.

Domamania

Mar 27, 2010, 11:50 AM

hello everybody i just visited freedom tower aka tower 1v2 yesterday and i was talking to one of the enginiers there and they told me why there is the difference of the two typs of steel. one: is the strenght meaning the base steel is higher strenght then the office floors cause the base steel would have to carry a bigger load. two: the paint as some of you say is practlically the fire proffing.

also the the big red on the west side of the tower will be taken down very soon i was told.

i must say that the building is getteing pretty damn tall now , and yes its true by december it will be about 52 floors high.

OneWorldTradeCenter

Mar 27, 2010, 3:07 PM

Innsertnamehere

Mar 27, 2010, 3:14 PM

I noticed on the webcam that the 16000 has ben moved! (presumably to be dismantled) :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana:

OneWorldTradeCenter

Mar 27, 2010, 3:21 PM

Yes, this crane will now build the Transportation Hub.

I hope the they will swirl the webcam up, so that we can follow the building rising.:cool:

StoOgE

Mar 27, 2010, 3:48 PM

I was in New York back in late October.. it's amazing how much progress has been made in that relatively short period of time. I'm hoping to get back soon, but it may be close to the end of the year before I can weasel my way into a work trip to NYC... can't wait to see the differences in this beast by then.

NYguy

Mar 27, 2010, 4:22 PM

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Innsertnamehere

Mar 27, 2010, 5:09 PM

Thanks, NYguy, thats the most comprehensive update I've seen yet!

I hope the they will swirl the webcam up, so that we can follow the building rising.

I don't think they will, as the earthcam is meant to follow the memorials construction progress, not 1WTC. Though the webcam on WTCprogress.com should be angled up as construction moves on, as that is meant to follow the progress of 1WTC.

OneWorldTradeCenter

Mar 27, 2010, 5:44 PM

Significant progress!!

Now the building takes shape. Just great to see it rising! :cheers: :banana:

Lecom

Mar 27, 2010, 9:49 PM

Getting visually vertical now, breaking way from the square shape..

djvandrake

Mar 28, 2010, 12:57 AM

What I enjoy is the comments in this thread are now about how members cant believe the progress and how fast it's going up.

Not that long ago it was just the opposite. :haha: The work moving above ground lets us see just how hard they've always been working, and I'm lovin it. :tup:

Indescribable

Mar 28, 2010, 3:30 AM

Thanks for posting the pictures.

Acer1

Mar 28, 2010, 7:58 AM

Slightly off-topic but a crane fell on a building a few blocks from the WTC site
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/27/new-york-crane-collapse-s_n_516059.html

NYC4Life

Mar 28, 2010, 11:23 AM

The tapering portion has finally begun to rise :-)

MadGnome

Mar 28, 2010, 1:49 PM

Anybody ever figure out if they're going to keep laying the top floor of the two floor additions first?
Delaying the laying and pouring of the odd number floors a couple of weeks could let them use two completely different crews for that job and speed up the process, letting them achieve the famous "one a week" rate.

Zensteeldude

Mar 29, 2010, 9:30 PM

The reason for placing decking on the 22nd floor before the 21st is clear now, they wanted to get rid of the 16000 and get it moved to the Hub construction. (it has to do with safty rules and how high they can go without decking)

PS: the floor a week thing has to do with steel erection, not the actual pouring of the floor slabs.

Great pics NYGuy, I'm going to go study them at my leisure.

NYguy

Mar 30, 2010, 1:48 AM

PS: the floor a week thing has to do with steel erection, not the actual pouring of the floor slabs.

Great pics NYGuy, I'm going to go study them at my leisure.

They seem to be accurate with the "floor" rate as long as they're still doing a couple at a time.

NYguy

Mar 30, 2010, 1:40 PM

Juan Beltran (http://www.flickr.com/photos/21853995@N06/4469200785/sizes/o/)

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MadGnome

Mar 30, 2010, 2:14 PM

Now, that's a great picture. Juan deserves a cigar.

Just-In-Cali

Mar 30, 2010, 8:53 PM

I have been following the progress and must say it is heartwarming to see that finally downtown is being reclaimed by New Yorkers...at ground level...and in the sky. Despite the nonsense and incompetance of the different agencies involved, the people of the city are still pulling for it, the workers cant wait to get this juggernaut skyward, and the forumers havent lost their enthusiasm in here. Dubai can throw up a hundred glass and steel monuments to themselves, but New York is still the Worlds city.
Cant wait to see the view from the top of this tower...
From your aspiring little brother city on the west coast...great job guys!

tulip city madman

Mar 31, 2010, 3:01 AM

What's goin on here?

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4067/4477549083_7cfe9208c0_o.jpg

QuarterMileSidewalk

Mar 31, 2010, 5:56 AM

^I had thought that was discussed earlier in the thread, but I don't know...
NYguy? Zen?

hunser

Mar 31, 2010, 11:02 AM

:previous: obviously the beam doesn't fit, i'm sure it will be replaced by another one soon.

NYguy

Mar 31, 2010, 1:02 PM

^I had thought that was discussed earlier in the thread, but I don't know...
NYguy? Zen?

There was a lenghty discussion on those beams a while back.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2010/03/31/zero-tower-115875-22150774/
New skyscraper rises from site of 9/11

By Ryan Parry 31/03/2010

It Will be a beacon of hope to millions of people around the world.

Almost nine years after New York's Twin Towers were wiped out in the 9/11 terror attacks the 105-storey Freedom Tower is rapidly rising from the rubble.

"Construction has really picked up pace in the last six months," says Steve Coleman of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey who are developing the 16 acre site after years of wrangling over money and design. "We expect to be building on average a floor a week. In all we will have 105 floors of which 69 are dedicated to offices.

"By the end of this year, if everything goes to plan, we will have reached the 60th floor or around 600ft."

And by mid 2011 the gleaming new skyscraper should already be rivalling New York's 1,454ft Empire State building.

NYguy

Mar 31, 2010, 1:56 PM

Frankenstein (http://www.flickr.com/photos/frankenstein/4476271467/sizes/l/)

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2751/4476271467_0112946bfb_b.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2751/4476271467_2dc5bfb143_o.jpg

bobdreamz

Mar 31, 2010, 3:00 PM

^ nice aerial shots! Why is there a gap on the left side though.

thenbagis

Mar 31, 2010, 5:00 PM

Why is there a gap on the left side though.

I'd guess so the big red crane can work in the area. Looks like the limit of what that crane can do is being reached.

Zensteeldude

Mar 31, 2010, 10:13 PM

. . . and then there were three !

http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t183/CAT345BL/1%20world%20trade/corner%20node%20lift/765.jpg
Photos taken today by Sal Schiano over at WNY.

The 18000 has one lift left. Yes, they left out that steel to clear the jib of the 18000.

http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t183/CAT345BL/1%20world%20trade/corner%20node%20lift/175.jpg
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t183/CAT345BL/1%20world%20trade/corner%20node%20lift/181.jpg
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t183/CAT345BL/1%20world%20trade/corner%20node%20lift/178.jpg

22"x 16" of solid low alloy high tensile steel times 2 !

Notice all the New Yorkers passing by not even giving such an awesome sight a moments notice!:koko:

NYCLuver

Mar 31, 2010, 11:10 PM

March 31st, 2010

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Zensteeldude

Mar 31, 2010, 11:16 PM

OK NYCLuver, seeing as April is tomorrow I'll give you the "Best Steel Porn Photographer of the Month" for April now.

Wheelingman04

Apr 1, 2010, 1:17 AM

This tower rocks the world!!!

NYguy

Apr 1, 2010, 1:28 AM

Notice all the New Yorkers passing by not even giving such an awesome sight a moments notice!:koko:

There's so much construction going on in the area, and Manhattan in general. People will pay a little more attention when these towers start to tower above every other buildng in the area though, if only in a quick glance up to see the new WTC taking shape. But in general, yeah people don't pay attention to construction if nothings falling...:)

pamule (http://www.flickr.com/photos/pamhule/4479560198/sizes/l/)

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NYCLuver

Apr 1, 2010, 1:48 AM

OK NYCLuver, seeing as April is tomorrow I'll give you the "Best Steel Porn Photographer of the Month" for April now.

:cheers: :D

Govertical

Apr 1, 2010, 2:54 PM

So why are the other phases only proposed?

NYguy

Apr 1, 2010, 4:35 PM

So why are the other phases only proposed?

If you mean towers 2 and 3, that's over in highrise proposals.

TOWER 2 (http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=130301)

TOWER 3 (http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=130306)

mgrammat (http://www.flickr.com/photos/mgrammat/4480730904/sizes/l/)

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wong21fr

Apr 1, 2010, 5:16 PM

. . . and then there were three !

The 18000 has one lift left. Yes, they left out that steel to clear the jib of the 18000.

Zen, I 've got a question for you.

Just what in the hell is a sliding crane that is mentioned as helping out with the 1 WTC construction after the departure of the 16000 and 18000?

I keep on thinking of something like a gantry crane, but that makes no sense.

J.M.

Apr 2, 2010, 2:48 AM

OK NYCLuver, seeing as April is tomorrow I'll give you the "Best Steel Porn Photographer of the Month" for April now.

I hope we well see even more steel porn this month. Wonderful progress is happening, *La La La LaLa LaLa sing a happy song!* :tup:

Zensteeldude

Apr 2, 2010, 8:44 PM

Zen, I 've got a question for you.

Just what in the hell is a sliding crane that is mentioned as helping out with the 1 WTC construction after the departure of the 16000 and 18000?

I keep on thinking of something like a gantry crane, but that makes no sense.

I think "climbing crane" got changed to "sliding crane" between the folks that know such things and the folks that do the press releases. The latest intelligence I have is that there well be a climbing crane installed somewhere on the north side. When, I don't know.

I asked a friend of mine if Federated Equipment had an external climbing crane smiler to there internal one and he said he had not herd of any but would ask.

wong21fr

Apr 2, 2010, 8:56 PM

^Thanks. That makes sense.

Paris-New York City

Apr 2, 2010, 10:00 PM

http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/5169/64091501.jpg

I have just noticed this picture on another thread, it's a skyscraper under construction in the city of Incheon, its design is really close to 1WTC...

(Sorry if it has been already posted here)

Thanks everyone for all the great updates!! :tup: