Normally shoring and foundation take so much time, I agree this is going insanely fast.Wow! This is flying!
No comparisons, typically office towers are a different beast and always move at a faster paceNormally shoring and foundation take so much time, I agree this is going insanely fast.
For comparison, Blue Diamond began shoring around the same time (May/June last year). Smaller floorplate, 1/3 the height, 2 additional parkign levels, but no rebar or concrete yet.
There's probably better comparisons, but I think it fairly illustrates the advantage of how much they've worked around the clock.
I assume they were in middle of a concrete pour and these occur from fairly early stages. Once you start you need to finish!I can confirm at least one of the cranes was still moving around at 11:30pm tonight. Happy to see this level of activity at a relatively early stage.
Friday Madness
Westside Story: The walls for the P2 level are being formed as this is written. Anything coloured white in this photo is concrete. The P2 flooring forms continue to the south wall, the west wall, under the street level platform and they are working their way towards the north wall. Directly behind crane #2 there is a permanent blue concrete pumping machine. This machine has already been in use when pouring the west side floor of the core. When concrete is being poured they will work until it is complete. Sometimes they are still there in the morning when I look out my kitchen window. I'd love to know what rate they get for double overtime. This crew works long and hard.
Eastside/Tracks Story: Not much action this week, but of note, the heavy machinery that was at the track level has been removed. They are still working in this area during the night, but what ever they are doing is not visible during the day as steel plates are noisily laid down every morning around 5am