NEW YORK | One World Trade Center | 1,776' Pinnacle / 1,373' Roof | 108 FLOORS - Page 361

uaarkson · #**7201** Posted **Jan 14, 2010, 8:27 PM**

No, the 6th floor is the one they'll be working on next, hopefully starting within the next two weeks. The floor they just finished is floor 5. So after floor six, they'll start on the first office floor (officially labeled as floor 20).

Gateway395 · #**7202** Posted **Jan 14, 2010, 8:36 PM**

Oh here we go again with floor count... Just let it go!

WTC4EVER · #**7203** Posted **Jan 14, 2010, 10:20 PM**

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Originally Posted by uaarkson

No, the 6th floor is the one they'll be working on next, hopefully starting within the next two weeks. The floor they just finished is floor 5. So after floor six, they'll start on the first office floor (officially labeled as floor 20).

actually not to sound like a jerk, but your wrong too. they are just finishing floor 6. and after that is floor 6M. THEN starts regular office floors

Zensteeldude · #**7204** Posted **Jan 14, 2010, 10:23 PM**

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Originally Posted by sw5710

Is the mast 440 feet tall? And 440 tons?

Yes, it tips the scales at about one ton per foot. The main vertical members in the center section (above the cable anchors) are 9 inch solid rounds.

This thing is not some radio antenna, it is a mast, designed to hold many tons of equipment, on top of a 1,368 foot tower.

uaarkson · #**7205** Posted **Jan 14, 2010, 10:24 PM**

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Originally Posted by WTC4EVER

actually not to sound like a jerk, but your wrong too. they are just finishing floor 6. and after that is floor 6M. THEN starts regular office floors

haha, that's what I meant

Zensteeldude · #**7206** Posted **Jan 14, 2010, 10:34 PM**

[QUOTE=canadate;4648142]I have a few photos but I also have a quick question..if it's already been asked don't catch an attitude with me, I apologize. I was at the site yesterday and noticed these cables for the first time...what are they for?

The cables are not on any drawing. Hummmm, I don't think those are cables, I think that's rebar for a wall.

WTC4EVER · #**7207** Posted **Jan 14, 2010, 10:54 PM**

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Originally Posted by uaarkson

haha, that's what I meant

lol

sw5710 · #**7208** Posted **Jan 14, 2010, 11:34 PM**

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Originally Posted by Zensteeldude

Yes, it tips the scales at about one ton per foot. The main vertical members in the center section (above the cable anchors) are 9 inch solid rounds.

This thing is not some radio antenna, it is a mast, designed to hold many tons of equipment, on top of a 1,368 foot tower.

"THANKS"

sw5710 · #**7209** Posted **Jan 14, 2010, 11:37 PM**

Will floor 6 and 6M appear as 1 large floor or look the same as 4 and 5 do?

Zensteeldude · #**7210** Posted **Jan 14, 2010, 11:54 PM**

By definition the mezzanine floors are not full floors. The highest floor at this point is the 6th floor. They need to put up 6M before they can put up the 20th floor witch is the next full floor and the first office floor, but is NOT a normal floor. The first one of those is the 21st floor.

sw5710 · #**7211** Posted **Jan 14, 2010, 11:58 PM**

Is the steel floor that is being installed today for floor 6

Zensteeldude · #**7212** Posted **Jan 14, 2010, 11:59 PM**

Yep.

canadate · #**7213** Posted **Jan 15, 2010, 12:54 AM**

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Originally Posted by Zensteeldude

The cables are not on any drawing. Hummmm, I don't think those are cables, I think that's rebar for a wall.

Good point, didn't think about that. I guess we'll just have to wait and see then. Thanks!

NYguy · #**7214** Posted **Jan 15, 2010, 2:02 AM**

Update from morrongiello (Jan 14)

NYguy · #**7215** Posted **Jan 15, 2010, 2:48 AM**

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=9563738

Spielberg to Make TV Doc. on World Trade Center Rebuild

January 14, 2010

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Oscar winning film director Steven Spielberg is to make a TV documentary on the rebuilding of New York's World Trade Center, which was destroyed in the September 11 2001 attacks.

The Science Channel said on Thursday that Spielberg would executive produce the six-part documentary series "Rebuilding Ground Zero", due to be shown in 2011.

The series will chronicle not just the engineering and building of the new 1,776-foot (541-meter) high skyscraper, but will seek to honor those who lost their lives in the September 11 airplane attack.

It will also examine the effect of the redevelopment on the lives of New Yorkers, the cable channel said.

"The rebuilding effort at Ground Zero is a compelling story of remembrance and renewal," New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg said in a statement.

"The facts that Steven Spielberg -- one of the great filmmakers of our time -- will produce a documentary on it ensures that the story will be brought to life for people around the world for generations to come."

Science Channel said the series would use 3D, time-lapse cameras, computer modeling techniques and other high technology methods to bring the story to life.

The shimmering glass skyscraper, formerly known as the "Freedom Tower" but renamed One World Trade Center last year, will be the tallest building in the United States and the centerpiece of the new World Trade Center site. The site will also include a National September 11 Memorial and Museum.

Rebuilding efforts have been repeatedly stalled after legal fights with insurers, clashes over design and security and a failure to attract tenants.

Some 2,752 people were killed on September 11, 2001 when hijackers crashed two planes into the World Trade Center's Twin Towers in New York's financial district.

Work on the Freedom Tower officially began in late 2006 and is scheduled to be completed in 2013.

CalibratedZeus · #**7216** Posted **Jan 15, 2010, 2:50 AM**

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Originally Posted by Zensteeldude

The cables are not on any drawing. Hummmm, I don't think those are cables, I think that's rebar for a wall.

I am going to make all of our theories on this even worse. Looking closer at a bunch of older photos, and 2 by NYC-Graffhead91 (Page 357) 4 days ago showed this the best....

Notice how on this shot of the west facing you can clearly see the positioning of the cables, as well as the much thicker beam that they are attached to at the top. Also notice the cables only stretch the length of the opening for the entrance.

Now check out this shot of the east facing. No thicker beam, no cables. The same is repeated for the south and north facings. If these cables are for a wall, why only in one small section above the western entrance? The same question carries if this is added support for the glass entry-way, why only on the west entrance?

Dac150 · #**7217** Posted **Jan 15, 2010, 2:50 AM**

I’ll certainly be looking forward to seeing that. Progress however is getting more and more evident by the day.

Zensteeldude · #**7218** Posted **Jan 15, 2010, 3:12 AM**

OK, I'm going to speculate that the cables, if that is what they are, have something to do with the fact that the columns over the entrance openings are not columns but hangers. (I know this to be fact) And that these hangers are not supported untell the 20th floor is finished. There for the cables are there to support the 3rd floor spandrel beam untell such time that the 20th floor is finished and the hanger can be a hanger.

Cat 328D LCR · #**7219** Posted **Jan 15, 2010, 3:29 AM**

I know this will sound crazy, but can they be to pull the floor slighty on level? I doubt it but its a wild guess

uakoops · #**7220** Posted **Jan 15, 2010, 4:03 AM**

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Originally Posted by Zensteeldude

OK, I'm going to speculate that the cables, if that is what they are, have something to do with the fact that the columns over the entrance openings are not columns but hangers. (I know this to be fact) And that these hangers are not supported untell the 20th floor is finished. There for the cables are there to support the 3rd floor spandrel beam untell such time that the 20th floor is finished and the hanger can be a hanger.

I was wondering what holds up all that weight until the hanger is attached at the top. I guess that's why they haven't poured any concrete on the floors yet.
OTOH, why only this side? the south entrance is much wider.

My theory is that they are there to spread the tension of the cable net wall over 2 beams. Again, why only this side?

Maybe it's just a giant egg slicer (for the Subway?)