Installation of the 13-foot-high panels began on the 20th floor, Coleman said, because the Port Authority will need open access to the tower’s base, containing the mechanical equipment, for several more months.
“There is a lot of equipment that still needs to be loaded onto the mechanical floors in the [base], so the glass wall must come in later,” Coleman said. “Additionally, with all the activity at the base of the building now, we scheduled the wall later to minimize damage.”
Coleman said installation of the prismatic glass wall on the tower’s base—meant to obscure the mechanical equipment behind it—would likely begin in early 2012.
I expect at least two people to remember it...
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Sorry for my ignorance (and for sidetracking from the glass film debate), but does this tower have a concrete core? In every construction photo i've seen I can't see one!
Sorry for my ignorance (and for sidetracking from the glass film debate), but does this tower have a concrete core? In every construction photo i've seen I can't see one!
Yes, it does it just lags behind, they once had to halt the steel erection until the core could catch up.
I believe this will put the building past floor 50?
I think floor 50 begins at the tip of the newest steel which is not really a floor yet, as far as solid floors go I think its up to 47 or 48
I just saw this today in person when I was up in NY, it's looking pretty great, and it's still baby sized compared to what it will be, still another 100 or so feet to go until it reaches halfway to the roof alone..
Sorry for my ignorance (and for sidetracking from the glass film debate), but does this tower have a concrete core? In every construction photo i've seen I can't see one!
It has a concrete core with 3 foot thick walls. It's poured around the erecting steel you see coming up in the center. The concrete lags several floors behind the steel so it's hard to see in the photos.
This building is going to be very heavy! Heavier than one of the former Twin Towers alone. Apparently, the former Twin Towers each had 17,000 shock absorbers to prevent the building from toppling over--to be more specific, bear the Hurricane-force winds. Will this new tower have a similar number of shock absorbers or is it not needed--as the concrete core is solid enough.
This building is going to be very heavy! Heavier than one of the former Twin Towers alone. Apparently, the former Twin Towers each had 17,000 shock absorbers to prevent the building from toppling over--to be more specific, bear the Hurricane-force winds. Will this new tower have a similar number of shock absorbers or is it not needed--as the concrete core is solid enough.
The core isn't that much of a factor for hurriccanes. When you try to push the building sideways, the load will be on the outer columns. I'm not sure what shock absorbers you mean. I know that some of the steel is sort of scalloped so it will flex and not put the whole load on a small point when the building moves.
“Office buildings are our factories – whether for tech, creative or traditional industries we must continue to grow our modern factories to create new jobs,” said United States Senator Chuck Schumer.
“Office buildings are our factories – whether for tech, creative or traditional industries we must continue to grow our modern factories to create new jobs,” said United States Senator Chuck Schumer.
This building is going to be very heavy! Heavier than one of the former Twin Towers alone. Apparently, the former Twin Towers each had 17,000 shock absorbers to prevent the building from toppling over--to be more specific, bear the Hurricane-force winds. Will this new tower have a similar number of shock absorbers or is it not needed--as the concrete core is solid enough.
I think you mean the visco-elastic dampeners. Those weren't shock absorbers, not in the usual definition of the term at least. They altered and reduced the sway of the building to reduce motion sickness. They really didn't serve a structural purpose. The buildings were designed to (and did) take more than the occupants could tolerate. They built those into the design because the all-steel structure is more flexible than a concrete or composite structure like this building. Concrete and steel-concrete composite buildings are stiffer and don't need something like that generally. Modern buildings tend to use single, tuned mass dampeners these days when the structure itself isn't stiff enough.
I'm totally diggin' the amount of progress at this tower and the rest of the site. Seems You can't go a day without missing a key piece of progress. The entire development is now on cruise control.
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The city looks great here except for that area just below the river (not too familiar with ny sorry) It looks like eastern european communist block housing- what is that? projects?
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Thanks.... It will look funny to see several floors with glass, only the lowest without... 
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