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Originally Posted by bryson662001
Why would you think it is steel? It is a residential building and residential buildings are always concrete unless it is a conversion of an existing steel building to residential.
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I think this is a special case -- below grade they are re-using the structure from the Meridian building, which was steel-framed. And according to the building's (unlinkable, Flash-based) website, there is mention that structural steel for the parking levels will be going up shortly.
I'm completely clueless as to construction stuff, but wouldn't it be very difficult to change construction method to concrete part way up the building? It might be more expensive to build with steel, but they have a ridiculous construction budget, and probably have saved $ by re-using the Meridian steelwork.