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Dallas convention hotel building momentum
by BYRON HARRIS / WFAA-TV
Posted on January 19, 2010 at 9:38 PM
Updated Tuesday, Jan 19 at 10:23 PM
DALLAS — With 23 floors, a thousand rooms and a price tag of $550 million, the Dallas convention center hotel is far from a paltry project. But in the last few weeks, it has been rising as fast as a model home in a subdivision.
Just six weeks ago, the hotel was a three-story deep hole. Now, parts of it are already three stories tall.
The site bustles with highly-orchestrated frenzy. On a busy day, close to 50 concrete trucks arrive over an eight-hour period. They can carry as much as 100 tons of cement among them.
The 300 workers at the site — metal fabricators, concrete finishers, form carpenters and plumbers — observe a tight close order drill. One floor is poured, using hydraulic concrete pumps.
It hardens in a day. As it does, workers begin removing forms beneath in readiness to pour the next floor above.
As the hotel gains altitude, the workforce will increase to as many as 800.
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http://www.wfaa.com/news/local/HOTEL...-82115967.html
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