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Old Posted Sep 23, 2016, 10:45 PM
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Nice, I thought it looked like a bigger one. Guess those 20' cages won't be light, makes sense. Gonna be a good show.
More than the weight it's the torque required to get down to rock, also not sure if the upright rigs can reach over far enough for the bigger caissons. That said the crawler from ALL is probably the general purpose crane, until the tower crane is installed.
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Finally, a new supertall for Chicago! I wish it were taller and had a smaller footprint though. I also wish it looked nicer.
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Is this the site of the proposed GEMS Phase II high school? Looks like they were able to "borrow" that land for a staging area, at least for foundation work.
Looks like the property line is roughly where the brick ground covering ends. I guess it will be a while before the school breaks ground.
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Finally, a new supertall for Chicago! I wish it were taller and had a smaller footprint though. I also wish it looked nicer.
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yes.

look at the numerous pictures of caisson rigs drilling into the earth posted on the previous page of this thread for confirmation.
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You mean, you don't wish it were taller? This building is essentially three towers of different heights joined together. If they were stacked on top of each other, the total square footage would be unchanged while the cost of construction might not be much higher, and Chicago would again have the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere. It would be very slender, but NYC has plenty of ultra-slender buildings too.
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If they were stacked on top of each other, the total square footage would be unchanged while the cost of construction might not be much higher...
It's not that simple...taller buildings require more of their floor plan to be eaten up by lateral system and elevators and mechanicals....reducing the usable/sellable/rentable floor plan. There are also very expensive foundation concerns when you get very very tall.

There is a reason why the 40 to 60 story apartment building is so ubiquitous in Chicago. It is the sweet spot for a cheap/less complicated lateral system, and caisson foundations that are pretty standard and easy in Chicago's relatively shallow clay layer, while still cramming in lots and lots of area.
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You mean, you don't wish it were taller? This building is essentially three towers of different heights joined together. If they were stacked on top of each other, the total square footage would be unchanged while the cost of construction might not be much higher, and Chicago would again have the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere. It would be very slender, but NYC has plenty of ultra-slender buildings too.
The cost of construction would be extraordinarily higher and the usable floor space would be considerably less. This is a business venture not an egomaniacs wet dream.
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It's not that simple...taller buildings require more of their floor plan to be eaten up by lateral system and elevators and mechanicals....reducing the usable/sellable/rentable floor plan. There are also very expensive foundation concerns when you get very very tall.

There is a reason why the 40 to 60 story apartment building is so ubiquitous in Chicago. It is the sweet spot for a cheap/less complicated lateral system, and caisson foundations that are pretty standard and easy in Chicago's relatively shallow clay layer, while still cramming in lots and lots of area.
Question for you: is this the main determinant of Chicago's prevailing building heights (particularly for office towers) in comparison to NY's?

I had always assumed it was about economics rather than engineering, but I'm curious.
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Wow, it's finally starting?
Yes, it's long overdue! Can't wait to be built.
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To 10023's comment:

New York has more wealth than Chicago. By an incredible amount. As a result, it makes sense to build tall, thin skyscrapers because the sale price or rent price can support the tall construction premiums.

On a side note: those point towers in NY benefit a lot from their ability to still use scissors stairs (not allowed anymore in Chicago and most places for that matter). Makes a huge difference. I would have thought they would have been outlawed after 911. But they were not.
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^ what!?! scissors stairs are still allowed in NYC?

i thought they were abolished in all building codes after 9/11.
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What is so bad about scissor stairs? It's just two sets of stairs placed into each other to save space, how is it different if they were in separate parts of the building?
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What is so bad about scissor stairs? It's just two sets of stairs placed into each other to save space, how is it different if they were in separate parts of the building?
It appears that in NYC you could count the 2 separate sets of stairs in a scissor configuration as 2 routes for fire escape - obviously not 2 separate routes.

This article (from 2008) says they are no longer allowed http://nymag.com/realestate/features/47812/
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The cost of construction would be extraordinarily higher and the usable floor space would be considerably less. This is a business venture not an egomaniacs wet dream.
It depends on what economic factors were considered by the bean counters. If this were the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere, tenants might be willing to pay higher rents. Also, as discussed recently in this thread about the former Chicago Spire site, there are tricks to make a major attraction like "The Tallest Building Outside Asia" extremely profitable. Finally, how much money would be saved by reducing the footprint of the building (and hence area of the lot) by two thirds? Real estate in downtown Chicago isn't cheap.
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Question for you: is this the main determinant of Chicago's prevailing building heights (particularly for office towers) in comparison to NY's?

I had always assumed it was about economics rather than engineering, but I'm curious.
Engineering and Economics are very intertwined. Buildings cost what they cost largely because of engineering issues, and height above a certain range is definitely one that can increase cost rapidly. It's not that Chicago can't physically build very tall buildings due to some inherent geographic constant. It's just that there is a sweet spot where the engineering challenges do not get too crazy such that structure or mechanicals costs sky rocket. Economically, with the rents in Chicago, it seems like it does not make much sense to blast past that sweet spot.

For example, a very common structural system for office buildings in chicago is to use a centered concrete core wall with gravity only framing surroundings, attaching to the center core. In this system, the centered concrete core is the only element designed to resist wind loads. The gravity columns/beams are only there to hold up gravity loads (not wind). When you get much taller taller than 50 floors, you usually need to engage more of the structure to help resist wind loads. Trump tower, for example, has a central core, but also uses some exterior columns in the lateral system. Those columns need to be tied to the core using outrigger levels, so the core and exterior lateral columns all work together. The analogy always used is a skier with ski-poles. All of that junk makes the structure way more expensive than if they were able to do it with only the center core. This makes developers think twice about breaking some theoretical height value. If, like in NYC, the rent prices are so high that adding 40 more floors and paying for more complicated structure, elevator and mechanical systems, they do it.

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Countless buildings have been built in New York since 911, and since 2008 with scissor stairs. A few posts back someone posted an article on how they were not allowed. Simply not true. They are everywhere in NY today on new towers, perhaps most notably on 432 Park Avenue. Just google 432 Park Avenue Plan and you can see for yourself (sorry, too lazy to post a photo).

The use of them are a big reason they can get skinny towers to work out in NY. It really consolidates the core, making for more rentable area on the floor. The difference between this approach and a conventional split stair add up quick, especially on tall tower design.
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As long the two sets of stairs are separated by a fire resistant partition, and the doors are at least 15ft apart on each level, scissor stairs are still allowed in NY.

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