[RIGGER’S CORNER]
WE HONOR IRONWORKERS LOCAL 40 FOR THEIR HARD WORK. TO ALL AMERICANS, WE WILL NEVER FORGET.
1. In eleven years, a team of more than 200 Ironworkers clad in fl uorescent vests and hard hats have built One World Trade Center.
2. Standing exactly 1,776 feet tall, the new World Trade Center will be America’s tallest building.
3. T e tower will contain more than 48,000 tons of structural steel (the equivalent of over 22,000 full-size passenger cars) and more than 200,000 cubic yards of concrete (the equivalent of a continuous sidewalk from New York to Florida.)
4. T e tower features a cable-stayed antenna consisting of two major components: a 408‐foot mast and a communications platform ring. To add more support against wind, eight RF (radio‐frequency) transparent Kevlar guy cables are connected from the mast back to the ring.
5. Two Manitowoc crawler cranes were used to erect the perimeter steel at the base of the tower. T e larger of these cranes has an 835‐ton lifting capacity, making it the largest crane ever used in Manhattan.
6. Within the tower, an EFCO self-jacking lift system was used for constructing the massive core walls.
7. 1WTC will feature LEED Gold certifi cation, the standard for sustainability construction and green initiatives,
making it one of the most environmentally friendly buildings of its size ever created.
8. T e tower plan by Daniel Libeskind, Master Planner for the World Trade Center site, began as a napkin sketch made after he descended into the 70-foot chasm created by the twin towers’ absence.
9. T e site also features the 9/11 Memorial, which consists of two pools that reside in the footprints of the original Twin Towers, surrounded by a plaza of almost 400 oak trees. T e design was selected from a design competition that included more than 5,000 entrants from 63 nations.
11. T e price tag for 1WTC is estimated at over $3.8 Billion, which will make it the world’s most-expensive offi ce building ever constructed. Most of the cost overruns are due to the security measures being taken in the design of the building. T e entire 16-acre site, which is owned by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, has a projected price tag of $14.8 billion.
Source: Information contained herein was obtained from
www.WTC.com, a website intended to serve as a comprehensive and updated source of reliable information on the rebuilding of the World Trade Center (WTC), www.
onewtc.com, a website provided by T e Durst Corporation, to provide public information about One World Trade Center, and from the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey at
www.panynj.gov/wtcprogress.
Contributed by: ASC INDUSTRIES/PYTHON AMERICA & THE BILCO GROUP
Tony Fastuca
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Jason Lemberg
JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2013 WIRE ROPE EXCHANGE
courtesy of PANYNJ
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