Artistic Rendering of the completed One World Trade Center at night
for the building’s construction crews in the field. Tony Fastuca, Vice President of Sales
and Marketing for ASC/PYTHON America, and Lemberg provided many training sessions including: inspection criteria methods, inspections of wires within the ropes, and inspections of the rope conditions for the construction workers in the field. Teir training seminars also included procedures for the proper installation of the ropes for the cranes. Additional training sessions were developed for the benefit of representatives from the Port Authority as well as from the Department of Building Inspectors. “Any time our product is used, we like
to give our customers as much training as possible. Tis is a unique aspect of Te Bilco Group and our joint efforts with ASC/PYTHON America,” says Lemberg. “In our business, one wrong move, one mistake, could be costly. So we take proper training very seriously.” Te Bilco Group is supplying the ropes and hardware for the erectors for the 4 Tower as well as for the WTC site transportation hub. Te Bilco Group has been distributing wire rope and related rigging products for over 30 years. Te SLINGMAX® Twin-Path
Doug Ingenthron, Doug Walker, Associate Editor with the Rome News-Tribune, discovered that the largest cable Brugg supplied is one-and-three-eighths of an inch in diameter. Each hoist cable is approximately 1,340 feet long and weighs over one ton due to its incredible length. In sum, Brugg supplied more than 826,000 linear feet of steel cables used for all of the Tower’s elevators. Te wire rope cables used for the elevators have steel cores as opposed to the traditional sisal rope-based core. Rhiner stated to the Rome News-Tribune that they were awarded the contract because of their Rope Life Prediction program.
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WIRE ROPE INSPECTION TRAINING Bilco Wire Rope, a PYTHON America master distributor provided the non-rotating high performance ropes for the tower cranes on the 1WTC. “As such, Bilco Wire Rope provided thousands of feet of PYTHON rope for the tower cranes and the cranes themselves were provided by Favco,” says Jason Lemberg, Sales Manager for Te Bilco Group. Lemberg was the main operator for the project that represented both Te Bilco Group and ASC/PYTHON America as the main providers of wire rope
WIRE ROPE EXCHANGE
High Performance Slings used on the construction site at the 1WTC were manufactured by ASC Industries, a SLINGMAX® fabricator in the United States. Tese high performance slings are made with a blend of high-performance aramid fibers that are highly abrasion resistant, lift high capacities, are inspected with fiber optics and early warning indicators (EWI), can be repaired if damaged, and have less than 1% stretch. “For the 1WTC project, the highest capacity slings we provided had a 250,000 lbs. capacity,” says Lemberg. Fastuca says, when asked what it was like to be a part of the 1 World Trade Center tower, “I had a sense of pride every time I walked onto the jobsite. Te union of American technologies, manufacturing, and creativity represented there at ground zero is an amazing illustration of how we all banded together to produce an outstanding architectural wonder.” y
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