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Old Posted May 16, 2014, 6:59 PM
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Originally Posted by scalziand View Post
The double boom platforms parallel the diagonal line across the concrete core, so that the shorter of the two booms on either platform can rotate "under" the reach of the longer boom, enabling coverage overlap. The gained efficiencies lower in a functional proportion to "rectangularity."

Square cores and square curtain wall defined floors would respond to this construction technique the quickest (be the cheapest to build).
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Good read on relationship between increasing number of freeway lanes and traffic

http://www.vtpi.org/gentraf.pdf
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