dshoost88
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Why is this project one of the most challenging to date?
The core wall has continuous #14 rebar from the mat slab to the top of the structure. It’s spacing started out @ 6”. It is coupled all the way from bottom to top on each face of the walls.
It is 14K concrete with huge workability-issues.
The wall thickness is only 14”. When combined with the #14 bar, huge embedded plates and only 3/4” coverage, the challenges were endless.
There’s more, if you’d like...
It will be very exciting and wonderful to look at from many angles and distances. (Although I’m not sure what it will be like at the front door!)Wow. I remain a fan of the take-a-risk design approach that BU went for here, but I admit these pictures make me a tiny bit nervous. This building will be stunningly prominent, really hope the risk pans out...
I wonder if in the 1960's was Warren Towers a "take-a-risk" design??It will be very exciting and wonderful to look at from many angles and distances. (Although I’m not sure what it will be like at the front door!)
I wonder if in the 1960's was Warren Towers a "take-a-risk" design??
Hopefully you did not repay it yet. All loans due to be forgiven soon.Yeah, tuition in 1970: $750 for the year! By 1974 it rose to the astronomical amount of $1250.00! I ended up with $1000 in student govt. loans at 3%. Wow!