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Knight Hospitaller · #**3041** Posted **Dec 16, 2015, 9:15 PM**

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Originally Posted by Plokoon11

I was always under the speculation that the west side was the core til the spire. I had no clue it tapered towards the east side.

Ditto

rappingonion · #**3042** Posted **Dec 16, 2015, 10:46 PM**

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Originally Posted by russbaseball

I color coded the below photo. Yellow=steel, blue=completed core, red=where they are currently working on the core and orange=what they still need to finish on the core. Does the core stop where the building sets back? If so they only have roughly 10 floors to go.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/125694...7/18275926388/

This picture makes me want to play SimTower.

Plokoon11 · #**3043** Posted **Dec 16, 2015, 10:52 PM**

^ OMG I know what you mean! I felt the same way haha, I remember playing that when I was 5 years old back in the late 90s.

Human Scale · #**3044** Posted **Dec 16, 2015, 10:54 PM**

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Originally Posted by ekt8750

Nice work there. It could be the concrete reinforced core ends at the setback but the two dotted lines through the center of the hotel portion suggest there maybe some sort of steel backbone.

Possibly, however I assumed it to be the concrete core that is continued up through the hotel as seen in the 'typical hotel floor plate' in the planning submission PDF:

http://www.phila.gov/CityPlanning/pr...209%202014.pdf

The link doesn't seem to work anymore, but perhaps someone saved the PDF to their computer?

This core, whether concrete or steel extension, is shown filled with hotel rooms instead of elevators - as the hotel's elevator bank is set in the decorative fin on the West side.

Philly Fan · #**3045** Posted **Dec 16, 2015, 10:56 PM**

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Originally Posted by Plokoon11

^ I remember playing that when I was 5 years old back in the late 90s.

Oy, now I feel REALLY old.

mmikeyphilly · #**3046** Posted **Dec 16, 2015, 11:28 PM**

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Originally Posted by Roadcruiser1

• Video Link

I sometimes refer back to this video. Maybe it's outdated, BUT

at Marker 2:11 it shows where the core is at the hotel portion starts? I can't break it down or explain in detail. Just check it out on your own.

That color-coded model of CITC really is a great idea!
Thanks russbaseball!

mmikeyphilly · #**3047** Posted **Dec 16, 2015, 11:30 PM**

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Originally Posted by Philly Fan

Oy, now I feel REALLY old.

I know what you mean....it's a bitch.

Elevator1 · #**3048** Posted **Dec 18, 2015, 6:37 PM**

[QUOTE=Human Scale;7272848]Possibly, however I assumed it to be the concrete core that is continued up through the hotel as seen in the 'typical hotel floor plate' in the planning submission PDF:
This core, whether concrete or steel extension, is shown filled with hotel rooms instead of elevators - as the hotel's elevator bank is set in the decorative fin on the West side.[/]

Building Code requires at least one elevator to serve all occupied floors of the building, regardless of different functions of the floors, for emergency egress.

Plokoon11 · #**3049** Posted **Dec 18, 2015, 8:21 PM**

Looks like they are at the point where core gets smaller because they haven't raised the other side at all, when they usually do that pretty quickly.

Knight Hospitaller · #**3050** Posted **Dec 18, 2015, 8:48 PM**

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Originally Posted by Plokoon11

Looks like they are at the point where core gets smaller because they haven't raised the other side at all, when they usually do that pretty quickly.

Conveniently highlighted in red by Russbaseball above. It looks like they won't go too far before the core narrows again. It sure looks like the core stops at the setback with elevator service to the hotel portion via the glassed-in elevators along the western exterior "spine." I wonder if there will be a transition to concrete construction for that portion, as with FMC? The level(s) around the 650 foot mark in the diagram look like they could involve a transitional structure like FMC has at its setback point.

GarCastle · #**3051** Posted **Dec 19, 2015, 12:56 AM**

[QUOTE=Elevator1;7274832]

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Originally Posted by Human Scale

Possibly, however I assumed it to be the concrete core that is continued up through the hotel as seen in the 'typical hotel floor plate' in the planning submission PDF:
This core, whether concrete or steel extension, is shown filled with hotel rooms instead of elevators - as the hotel's elevator bank is set in the decorative fin on the West side.[/]

Building Code requires at least one elevator to serve all occupied floors of the building, regardless of different functions of the floors, for emergency egress.

Just curious what types of emergency egress allow the use of an elevator? We think something really bad is going to happen, but not right away, so you have time to take the elevators. :^)

Cheers,
G.

Elevator1 · #**3052** Posted **Dec 19, 2015, 1:59 AM**

[QUOTE=GarCastle;7275322]

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Originally Posted by Elevator1

Just curious what types of emergency egress allow the use of an elevator? We think something really bad is going to happen, but not right away, so you have time to take the elevators. :^)

Cheers,
G.

Emergency medical access, firefighter access and similar functions. Can't have them wandering around the building looking for the elevator bank that serves an area once they enter the building. Sky lobbies are nice but not in an emergency. Helpful to get material from a loading dock to an upper mechanical area directly as well. Many uses to serve every floor. WTC 1 has a couple that run over 100 floors.

Jawnadelphia · #**3053** Posted **Dec 19, 2015, 1:37 PM**

From Phillymag.com, there was a Christman tree atop the core,

http://www.phillymag.com/property/20...t-center-tree/

[IMG]

comcastxmas

TechTalkGuy · #**3054** Posted **Dec 21, 2015, 12:19 AM**

That's not the christmas tree.

This is:

brenster · #**3055** Posted **Dec 21, 2015, 3:42 AM**

https://instagram.com/p/_idaBeh8VR/
This building is massive. The pictures we post don't do it justice.

summersm343 · #**3056** Posted **Dec 21, 2015, 5:02 AM**

Update from Building Philly

More photos here:
https://www.facebook.com/BuildingPhilly

Arch+Eng · #**3057** Posted **Dec 21, 2015, 3:40 PM**

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Originally Posted by TechTalkGuy

That's not the christmas tree.

This is:

That christmas tree likely costed $2-3k when it was all said and done. Idk why you would even waste time doing that, or allow your workers to goof off like that.

Knight Hospitaller · #**3058** Posted **Dec 21, 2015, 3:49 PM**

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Originally Posted by Arch+Eng

That christmas tree likely costed $2-3k when it was all said and done. Idk why you would even waste time doing that, or allow your workers to goof off like that.

Sounds like someone needs a visit from the Krampus.

Arch+Eng · #**3059** Posted **Dec 21, 2015, 4:10 PM**

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Originally Posted by Knight Hospitaller

Sounds like someone needs a visit from the Krampus.

Yes, and its those workers. Tower cranes can easily cost 5 - 6 figures a day. You only get about 30 picks a day, and I know somebody didnt carry that tree up the steps, which means that they likely used one pick to pick that stupid tree up. Lets just be conservative and say that the crane only costs $50k per day. That means that one pick cost $1,666.00.

You only get about 6 productive hours out of your workers, two of them probably secured this down, in about 10-30 minutes. That is about another $130 wasted.

So yea, a $2k Christmas tree thats not even visible. Must be nice to be that rich.

Teakwood · #**3060** Posted **Dec 21, 2015, 4:24 PM**

Guys... any chance they are at the mechanical floor between Comcast and the Four Seasons? If so, could symbolize a topping out of sorts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topping_out