NEW YORK | One World Trade Center | 1,776' Pinnacle / 1,373' Roof | 108 FLOORS

[DUBAI2015]

What is that I see around the crane?

[Dac150]

Scaffolding fell off the DB Building about 1&1/2 hours ago. Two more firefighters were injured. This thing is a damn death trap.

[rich_200]

Originally Posted by wong21fr

Maybe, but you can definitely see forms that are almost certainly for the core being emplaced along the corners of the leftmost crane:

Guys, is the wall underconstruction on the far left part of the FT or is it the future wall of the fountain that will be in the place of the former WTC???

[Daquan13]

I don't see it. Can you point it out to me?

Maybe with an arrow?

Yes Dac, you're right! This — building is getting on my last nerve!! Every damn time that work is resumed on it, something else goes horribly wrong! Almost like the damn thing is cursed
with the devil!!

[Dac150]

It looks like the type of building that would be cursed.

[CarlosV]

the curse lives on.....how many more will die???

[Daquan13]

I'm afraid that only the Grim Reaper knows for sure!

[Dac150]

You have to expect at leat a few deaths in the construction. I pray that not be the case, but it is very possible. The construction of part of the new WTC already took 1 life with 7 WTC. And if you consider these two firefighters, I guess it would be 3.

[Ghost]

July pics from Port Authority of NY&NJ:
July 2007 - Freedom Tower Foundations (See #6)

[NYguy]

It's just a matter of months folks...

[ATLksuGUY]

WOOOOHOOOO!!! Great to see actual progress, Im gonna die when i see the full core come out of the ground.


And on that note, pussywillow, your avatar is FREAKIN ME OUT MAN, what is it?????

[Lecom]

Originally Posted by RockMont

They should be. And then again there were work related deaths when the originals were going up, and unfortunately, there are likely to be some, during the construction of the new ones too.

I wish they were added, but sadly they must not be added because if they are, everyone and their mother will wish for their deceased relatives to be added that may or may not have somehow been tied to the World Trade Center. Sadly, I believe that a gesture as nice as adding those firefighters will result in a disappointing brawl about many more names and petty squabbling that has no place at such a solemn site (yet of which we've seen way too much already). Thus, with my teeth clenched, I say that the memorial roster remains the same, and everyone else's deaths are mentioned elsewhere on the site.

[Lecom]

To answer some questions on here, the most prominent thing under construction there is the shopping concourse that goes east-west directly to the south of the actual tower (in fact, the tower's columns form the hallway's north wall), going into the Calatrava terminal to the east and under West Street to the WTC to the west. Programmatically, the concourse is part of the FT, and its southern wall will be shared with the memorial complex directly to the south.

[Daquan13]

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[Daquan13]

And BTW, just what IS that thing the guy is using in the bottom pic that looks somewhat like a lawn mower?

Looks like he's smoothing out the surface of the concrete that was just poured, but I'm not sure. I've seen that type of machine in use before.

[Dac150]

It's used to dry the concrete.

[Dalton]

Originally Posted by Dac150

It's used to dry the concrete.

Actually it's a power trowel. It's used to float and finish the concrete.

[Dac150]

Originally Posted by Dalton

Actually it's a power trowel. It's used to float and finish the concrete.

As well as dry.

[wong21fr]

^Nope, it's used mainly to finish the concrete.

[Dac150]

Originally Posted by wong21fr

^Nope, it's used mainly to finish the concrete.

As well as dry.