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10 Fun Facts about the New 3 World Trade Center, Opening Soon
Michelle Young
04/04/2018
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3. Water is Supplied via Two Wooden Water Towers on the Roof
No matter how much building technology progresses, one of the mainstays for water delivery remains the wooden water tower. 3 WTC is no exception, with two water towers on its roof! The street water mains can generally push water about 60 feet up (or about six floors) from the ground. At 3 WTC, like in other tall buildings, an additional water pump system further sends water to the top, in this case, from a mechanical room on the 18th floor.
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4. 3 WTC Has a Custom Made Window Washing Device
Up on the roof of 3 WTC, a large robotic looking device is there just for window washing and maintenance on the 80- story building. The device is several stories tall and is custom made by Gind, a Spanish company focused on building maintenance systems. Imagine yourself being hoisted over the top in the carriage!
The machine sits on a track that encircles the roof, which allows it to be deployed on any facade. On our visit, a smaller window machine was located on the lower terrace, which will be partially open to the public.
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5. 3 WTC has the tallest outdoor terrace in Lower Manhattan on the 76th floor
At 934 feet above street level, the 76th floor terrace will be the tallest outdoor terrace in Lower Manhattan. It’s 5,300 square feet in size, but won’t be accessible to the public – just to the lucky employees who will work there. A higher terrace in New York City can be found at the Empire State building, whose 86th floor terrace is 1,050 feet up.
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7. 3 WTC Will Have Digital Wayfinding in its Staircases and Hallways
3 WTC is possibly the first building to make use of a new innovation: digital wayfinding screens both in the stairwells and in the hallways to help people orient themselves.
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8. 3 WTC is the First Building in the World to have an Annealed Glass Exterior
3 WTC will be built with 10,000 annealed glass panels, meaning when the glass is cooled slowly to reduce internal stress. It’s particularly important for security reasons, as annealed glass won’t break into shards when broken. 3 WTC will be the first skyscraper built with this type of glass.
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9. 3 WTC is the Only Building in the World with a Three-Sided Cable Net Wall
Cable-net walls enable a building to focus on the transparency of the glass, minimizing the need for visible structural elements. 3 WTC will be the first building to have a three-sided cable net wall, which you will be able to see on the ground floor of the building. The lobby itself will be 62 feet high, surrounded by 150,000 feet of retail.
We got to see how the cables will connect into the building, below the floor.
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10. The Trees Coming to Cortlandt Way
The trees that will be planted on Cortlandt Way are coming, roots and all, from another state. Large pits have been dug into the plaza to accommodate the Thornless Honey Locust trees
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