One World Trade Center under construction.
“In our business, one wrong move, one mistake, could
be costly. So we take proper training very seriously.” – Jason Lemberg, The Bilco Group
geometries that can only be realized through the use of elegantly strung wires. Used for artistic expressions, wire rope makes his sculptural installations throughout the world remarkable. SOM Architects fought to keep the sculpture, stating it was a critical part of their design.
THE FASTEST ELEVATORS
IN THE WEST It is not hard to imagine why the new Freedom Tower would house the world’s third fastest elevators after knowing what happened during the tragic fall of the previous towers
and how vertical transportation was cut off. 54 high-speed destination dispatch passenger elevators are included for building occupants and tourists to have access to sufficient and fast vertical transportation from many points throughout the tower. TyssenKrupp Elevator, one of the
world’s leading manufacturers of vertical and horizonta l transportation technology, supplied all 73 elevators and eleven escalators for the 1 World Trade Center tower. Tis is the largest order that TyssenKrupp Elevator has provided for any single building in history. Te fastest elevators in the Northern
Hemisphere are designed to move at an alarming 29.5 feet per second. TyssenKrupp also stated that the elevators are designed to protect the passengers from ear-popping effects while ascending tourists to the observation decks in less than one minute. Of the $150 million contract, 64 of the elevators will be gearless, six are machine- room-less, and one is a geared elevator. Brugg Wire Rope supplied a large portion of the hoist cable wire ropes for the Freedom Tower’s elevator collection along with suppliers from Switzerland and the Czech Republic. In an interview with Brugg’s Martin Rhiner and
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Joe Woolhead | Courtesy of Silverstein Properties
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