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[JohnIII]

Originally Posted by summersm343

No. The building was sitting at 941 feet tall. 180 feet to go includes the rest of the cooling towers and the lantern which is 125 feet tall.

Okay, I was a few feet off; about 9 feet off I guess.

[JohnIII]

Originally Posted by BrenSalsa

More vertical progress! Spire sections are up on both sides now.

So does this mean that this building is now the tallest in the city? Is it now the tallest between New York and Chicago as of today or do we have to wait?

[JohnIII]

Originally Posted by summersm343

Not yet. I still don't think it's taller than Comcast Center. It's sitting around 961 feet right now I think.

Dag, this thing can't grow fast enough! You sit on the grown and get excited and heck!

[Marcos]

man what a site to finally see, this has been a bit of torture hahaha - what a great day in Philly. Onward & upward!

[Plokoon11]

Some cross beams added to the pieces; they aren't messing around!

[Mr Saturn64]

Only a very short time and we've got a new tallest... The anticipation is brutal.

[Knight Hospitaller]

Isn’t there more height to be added to the cooling tower?

[mcgrath618]

Originally Posted by Knight Hospitaller

Isn’t there more height to be added to the cooling tower?

Yes, but it's probably separate from the lantern.

[GtownFriend]

They should be adding the top level of cooling tower
first slide below [Step 7]
So today's steel should be up to 995 which is the top of the cooling tower.
So already highest!!

Originally Posted by PHL10

Slide 9 is installing the cooling equipment
The Lantern starts on Slide 10

[Knight Hospitaller]

Driving by today, I don't think the new columns/beams are part of the lantern, which will project a bit from the cooling tower. Everything being installed appears to be a continuation of the cooling tower.

[1487]

based on where it's rising, I'd say this is the start of the spire. There appear to be 2 levels of cooling tower structural steel already in place.

[Philly Fan]

Originally Posted by Knight Hospitaller

Driving by today, I don't think the new columns/beams are part of the lantern, which will project a bit from the cooling tower. Everything being installed appears to be a continuation of the cooling tower.

[Bonus points to the lawyer with lots of kids for knowing the difference between horizontal beams and vertical columns. ]

[keithlandis]

The reflection was blinding us today on the 24th floor of Cira around 2pm.



Comcast10-18-17 by keithlandis, on Flickr

Comcast2 by keithlandis, on Flickr

[PhilliesPhan]

Not as clear as some of the other images posted here, but this is what it looks like from Alter Hall (Fox School of Business):

[Knight Hospitaller]

Originally Posted by 1487

based on where it's rising, I'd say this is the start of the spire. There appear to be 2 levels of cooling tower structural steel already in place.

To my eye, the current cooling tower structure looks about right, but from the renderings and those great diagrams from TK, it sure looks like there's still height to be added to the cooling tower. I thought the proportions in TK's images were off, but not when I took a closer look at the renderings. I think the cooling tower is 2/3 of what it will reach. [Update: Gtownfriend and his diagrams say the same thing - there's one level of small diagonal "X" bracing, with two large levels, each with an "X" brace, above that. It looks like there's one more large "X" brace to go]

[Knight Hospitaller]

Originally Posted by Philly Fan

[Bonus points to the lawyer with lots of kids for knowing the difference between horizontal beams and vertical columns. ]

Precision R Us (its seven kids now, thanks to twins in May).

[Marcos]

Originally Posted by Knight Hospitaller

To my eye, the current cooling tower structure looks about right, but from the renderings and those great diagrams from TK, it sure looks like there's still height to be added to the cooling tower. I thought the proportions in TK's images were off, but not when I took a closer look at the renderings. I think the cooling tower is 2/3 of what it will reach.

according to the 'current scheme' we saw back in May step 6 was setting the cooling towers 1 & 2, followed by step 7 - erecting steel for cooling towers 3 & 4. We've been stuck on cooling tower 1 & 2 steel for months thus far & as far as I know they still haven't even set the first 2 cooling towers (or did they slip them in without me noticing?). So I'm thinking once they slide those in we'll see more cooling tower width steel go up & then the lantern. Though, that structure up there is awfully lantern shaped , so I'm wondering if the lantern begins at the same level as the second cooling tower & continues on up its designated height above the top of the tower.

Edit: going back & looking at step 10A (page 297 of this thread) the lantern does look to travel from roof height through both stages of cooling towers so that may be the lantern we see there. I still believe they'll be erecting the second set of cooling tower steel around that however

[Knight Hospitaller]

^ It's probably a little bit of both. They appear to be working inside out for the cooling towers, so the lantern probably shares steel with the tower at this point.

[Philly Fan]

Originally Posted by Knight Hospitaller

Precision R Us (its seven kids now, thanks to twins in May).

You HAVE to have precision with SEVEN KIDS. I find it hard enough to keep things straight with only ONE.

[Knight Hospitaller]

Originally Posted by Philly Fan

You HAVE to have precision with SEVEN KIDS. I find it hard enough to keep things straight with only ONE.

It is like unto football.

1 child = double coverage
2 children = man on man coverage
3-5 children = zone
6+ children = prevent