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Everglades on the Bay (link)
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Gryphon
Shell has poured the South Tower to the fifth level and the North
Tower to the third level. The shear wall cores of the towers
dominate the adjacent buildings at the site due to their
overwhelming size. This is due to the shear wall jump forms that |
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loom two levels above the poured floors. Currently, due to the
complexity of the garage podium, we are pouring a deck approximately
every two weeks. Once we reach the typical floors (level 9), our
schedule shows pouring a floor per week per tower up to the 50th floor
- all of this while concurrently building the eight-level parking
garage, which encompasses the entire site, around the two towers. The
site gets tighter and tighter everyday and a main challenge is to find
the room to build tables as well as starting the podium areas.
Another recent
obstacle is dealing with the city noise ordinance, which is currently
not allowing construction activities to begin until 8:00 am. Special
pour permits allow us to start earlier, yet are difficult to obtain.
In addition, this would require the pulling of a permit virtually
every day as we plan to be pouring between 1,000 and 1,500 cubic yards
of concrete per day!
Yet, if it were easy, anyone could due it. That's why Cabi Developers
hired Gryphon - to tackle the Everglades Monster.
- Steven Roth, Executive Vice President |
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