NEW YORK | One World Trade Center | 1,776' Pinnacle / 1,368' Roof | 108 FLOORS

[The North One]

wow, this is going to be one amazing tower!

[Puzzlecraft]

uaarkson - I completely missed it. Nice.

[westmc9th]

anything supposed to happen does anyone know today. I heared more core steel for both sides north and south and more of the smaller interior columns nothing major

[J.M.]

So I dont know exactly how green buildings are built, like how the building is green, and im wondering if any of that has been put into this yet.

[meh_cd]

Originally Posted by westmc9th

anything supposed to happen does anyone know today. I heared more core steel for both sides north and south and more of the smaller interior columns nothing major

They're installing steel on the core and more of the vertical columns on the exterior.

[Dirty Sandpit]

So what are the normal working hours for this construction project?

[NYguy]

Been busy the past few days, but a visit to the site is in order...

Here's an update from morrongiello (Nov 6)




Superrad

[larry141094]

I can't wait to see the glass on this! its sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo exciting!

[westmc9th]

How tall does everyone think this will be November of 2010 how much progress will towers 2 3 and 4 have

[New Skyline]

One World Trade Center Must be at least 450! feet by then, I assume so..

[BStyles]

Originally Posted by westmc9th

How tall does everyone think this will be November of 2010 how much progress will towers 2 3 and 4 have

Lets see....by adding the numbers, we can conclude this:

-1WTC is at approximately 125-130 feet with the new core steel. They probably won't finish the base until the start of next year, given the weather is on our side.

-The first office floor is at level 20, the floors will rise each week according to the PA's floor-a-week schedule, so by the end of 2010 we should have 52 floors(because of course, there are 52 weeks in a year).

-Going into 2011: There are 70 office floors in the entire building, with only 18 left to go(18 weeks in translation), then there are a series of mechanical floors. Then comes the roof, and all of its utilities, including the massive three-story communications ring, and the even larger 408 foot-high spire, which will probably be lifted into place by one of the tower cranes, or jacked up(that's a better alternative, since the tower cranes are centered within the core, unlike the tower's predecessor, which had four cranes positioned in the edges of it's rectangular core). The tower's roof height should top out in May of 2011, and the spire should be erected a few months after that. But it looks like everything's on schedule.

-Tower 4 should have topped out at the same time or in early 2012, and as for towers 2 and 3....well since their foundations tie into Calatrava's transit hub, the PA has to build, finance, or do whatever the hell it takes to get these towers moving. Hopefully they'll be more than halfway there by the time Tower 4 tops out in 2011.

[NYguy]

Angie

[canadate]

Originally Posted by meh_cd

I have a pro flickr account that you can host them on if need be. PM me if you'd like to do so.

Thanks for the offer, that'd be great. How would we do that though? would I e-mail them to you?

[NewYorker2009]

Originally Posted by BStyles

The tower's roof height should top out in May of 2011, and the spire should be erected a few months after that. But it looks like everything's on schedule.

According to the PA Schedule, One World Trade's rooftop will top out Fall 2011 so we'll see what happens.

[The North One]

Originally Posted by NewYorker2009

According to the PA Schedule, One World Trade's rooftop will top out Fall 2011 so we'll see what happens.

what? i thought it was 2013???

[drewmandan]

I think 2013 is the opening. The top out is just when the steel literally hits roof height.

[Duffstuff129]

I'm sure this has been posted already, but here's the cladding mockup:



From wtc.com

The quality of this glass makes me at least 10 times more excited for this tower. It looks so good.

[Pizzuti]

Originally Posted by NewYorker2009

According to the PA Schedule, One World Trade's rooftop will top out Fall 2011 so we'll see what happens.

That means we're gonna score about a floor per week? That seems to be just a bit faster than how fast the tower is growing today, which is what you'd expect because the base has a lot more to it than the ordinary office floors will.

However, I'm surprised they can get the whole tower up in 2 years but that it will take 2 more years just to open it after that point. That means that the interior walls and carpeting, etc take as long to install as the whole rest of the tower?


It looks like they'll top out at almost exactly the 10th anniversary of 9/11. I don't know if that's a correlation you'd want to intentionally make or a correlation you'd want to intentionally avoid.

[george]

^Judging from the mockup, this is going to being a stunning tower.^

[CalibratedZeus]

Originally Posted by Pizzuti

That means we're gonna score about a floor per week? That seems to be just a bit faster than how fast the tower is growing today, which is what you'd expect because the base has a lot more to it than the ordinary office floors will.

However, I'm surprised they can get the whole tower up in 2 years but that it will take 2 more years just to open it after that point. That means that the interior walls and carpeting, etc take as long to install as the whole rest of the tower?


It looks like they'll top out at almost exactly the 10th anniversary of 9/11. I don't know if that's a correlation you'd want to intentionally make or a correlation you'd want to intentionally avoid.

From seeing past high-rises go up, once the exterior cladding is up, work on the inside of that floor will begin. So when the skeleton of say the 50th floor is done and they are moving up, the bottom floors will have been started on the interior work.

Still figuring the size of the tower, I would say about a year extra for the finishing touches depending on how fast they can do the insides.