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Originally Posted by RonnieFoos
Last vertical concrete pours are underway for the final level of the office portion.
So, I have a question for the concrete construction guru's. If they ever decide to add additional floors in the future, exactly how is this accomplished since the rebar is now getting placed at a 90 degree bends for the roof level? How would vertical rebar be added in the future to support additional floors? Is the existing concrete just drilled and vertical rebar added and then 're-concreted'? Just curious on this process as when I moved here, Palomar was already completed and they had just begun adding the residences on top of that. I haven't really seen additional floors added to current towers in other cities and I'm not familiar with how it is done.
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Sounds like if they are seriously planning more floors, they'd add rebar couplers in place and kept the rebar straight - or installed additional rebar with the couplers so they can continue.
The couplers look something like this:
https://www.erico.com/catalog/literature/RSB-WWEN.pdf
So unless we've missed something - or there's more work to be done - seems unlikely they'll add additional floors.