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Old Posted Jan 23, 2007, 2:39 AM
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Originally Posted by Scruffy View Post
im pretty sure that a tower of this size will be built core first, steel behind and glass behind that in the vein of the Shanghai World Financial Center or whatever name that tower goes by now.
That would make the most sense but the construction unions in New York have a peculiar agreement that the concrete workers cannot work ahead of the steel workers. So you will not see a concrete core rise ahead of the steel even though that is the schedule used in almost anyplace else in the world. BOFA and 7 WTC also have concrete cores that were never visible throughout anypoint of the construction process.
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