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Originally Posted by Fryguy
In the posted picture, the floor lifted (or added) by the cantilever seems different from the third floor previously added. Also, is the cantilever (all the red steel) permanent? I have never seen these things before.
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Well, cantilevered floors are intensively load-bearing for the floors above, but horizontally in addition to vertically, so they require more thickness and space to do so. The red trusses seem to be part of the scaffold system to be able to build the scaffold out far enough to pour the concrete for the cantilever. Regular scaffold parts wouldn't be strong enough or large enough, especially with no room to build a scaffold from the ground up in that direction because The Esquire is there. I'm not an engineer, but I think I got that right. Anyone?