[NYCRebublican]

What a terrible design. The floor plates look useless. I cannot believe they are building this thing out of poured concrete instead of steel. Look what they have to do in order to get the structural integrity they need. Every floor has concrete bearing walls 20 feet on center. Even a portion of the outer skin is bearing. The interior floorplate will be all cut up and very limited in layout. Poured concrete for a limited use such as apts. is one thing, but the commercial space will be almost useless.

Obviously this is about ego and not function. Petro dollars hard at work.

[Pest]

I would bet that they are using concrete because the raw materials are easier to obtain. Steel costs are real high right now.

I can't imagine it will be concrete all the way up. If so, that's going to be one heavy sucker.

[TexasTransplant]

>>>>>>"What a terrible design. The floor plates look useless. I cannot believe they are building this thing out of poured concrete instead of steel"<<<<<<


Fly a fuel laden plane into it and you may see the reasoning, they don't think that the War on Terror (Stupid name) will be won. Concrete melts at a much higher temperature than steel.

PC and MSM must have won that Contract.

TT

[Calvin Locke]

I once worked in a building that was originally a warehouse for a woolen mill. It was all concrete, and the support
columns took up about about 12 feet of horizontal space each.

It was built around 1920 or so, iirc.

One of the small elevators got stuck a lot, and yes, getting everybody to jump at once would get it moving.

The larger freight elevator cars were cordoned off with steel pipe to limit the number of people.

I think we were on the fourth floor, so the stairs were the preferred access method.