Millennium Tower (Filene's) | 426 Washington Street | Downtown

[JeffDowntown]

I care! I was really hoping that that bit of history would remain...what's next, silencing the carillon?

No, it is getting reprogramed to play the HAVAS theme song, 24/7/365.

 

[RandomWalk]

I wonder if the old Filenes signboards are available for history buffs...

 

[statler]

I wonder if the old Filenes signboards are available for history buffs...

 

[Downburst]

This all depends on the structural engineer. Advancing the core only helps push your schedule. Its much faster.
Some structural engineers dont allow this because of the shear wall/slab interface (developing splice lengths of rebar into the shear walls). Dowel bar subs (couplers) can be cast into the core at slab locations and dowel bar inserts screwed into the dbs once the slab formwork is up, but sometimes you get an engineer that rejects this method.
Most likely if you see a core not advancing on a CIP job, its because the design team rejected it, or there is too much time in the schedule!!

Azimuth, thank you for the correction and sharing your detailed information. I really appreciate it.

 

[eswwaa]

AOL moves in....

http://www.bizjournals.com/boston/b...st-became-the-first-tenant-to-move-in-to.html

 

[Savin Hill]

Oh good. Maybe we can get CompuServe and Prodigy to move in too and we can have a nice dot com bubble district.

 

[BosDevelop]

Oh good. Maybe we can get CompuServe and Prodigy to move in too and we can have a nice dot com bubble district.

I have had the same aol e-mail address since approximately 1993. Since gmail got popular, all of my friends give me a hard time for continuing to use my aol account. Inevitably, every 6 months or so there is a massive gmail outage/glitch where everyone freaks out while my AOL works perfectly. I have not experienced any problems with my aol mail in over a decade now. I will happily deal with the stigma of an aol account for a service that almost never fails me.

 

[kz1000ps]

Get Netscape and Juno in the mix and we can party like it's 1995.

 

[AmericanFolkLegend]

Get Netscape and Juno in the mix and we can party like it's 1995.

Grabbing my Goo Goo Dolls CD....

 

[kz1000ps]

Ha, I just saw then live at the Pavilion Friday (not by choice however).

 

[BosDevelop]

double post, apologies

 

[ftran999]

So tenants are starting to move in already?

 

[lynqueezy]

kz, we're going to need your camera for this, my mobile phone tried

 

[statler]

Damn. That was fast. Seems like just a few weeks ago we could see the entire gutted interior.

 

[kz1000ps]

Did somebody mention my name? Well good thing the RMV gave me plenty of time to kill today.

Wide open!

Note the angles

 

[stick n move]

This looks incredible, it would be cool if they put some tables out in the middle of the road kind of like they did in times square. I truly hope this is a model for future development in boston for how to successfully mix the old with the new and not have to demolish historic buildings to build new ones. Yes a couple were demolished for this one, but this should be a guideline for future development of how to do it right.

 

[bobthebuilder]

Anybody know what those orange & yellow things are that dot the perimeter of the deck?

 

[FenwayResident]

Anybody know what those orange & yellow things are that dot the perimeter of the deck?

They are using the Peri Sky Deck system for their concrete formwork. This is composed of flat composite panels that are supported by the yellow jacks you see in the photos.

The formwork panels can be stripped after about 24 hours after concrete is placed (this is all dependent on the specified concrete mix) but the yellow jacks must remain as reshores until the concrete reaches a certain percentage of its specified strength. Depending on engineering, these jacks are required for +/- 3 weeks after the deck is placed. (I use 3 weeks as a guide but this all depends on strength of concrete and the mix used). To speed up the process, a new round of these yellow Peri jacks can be erected on top of the newly placed deck as early as the next day and the next cycle repeats itself. What holds this cycle up is that you have a core and multiple shear walls on the floor. This is why you often see these large CIP buildings being placed in 2 sections. This way while one crew is working on the vertical sections of one half of the building footprint, a separate crew is working on the flat section for the second half of the building and they will repeat this process all the way up the building.

Way more interesting and fun than steel beams and columns!!


Quote:
Originally Posted by datadyne007
The yellow poles you are describing are temporary supports to hold up the slab formwork while the floor slab is poured. When the slab is cured/done, the supports are removed and moved to the next floor to repeat the process.

Azimuth's reply a few pages back.

 

[bobthebuilder]

I wasn't refering to the jacks/panels. I was referring to these things in that hang off the edge of the slab:

Are you saying these are also used for formwork? If so what is their function?

 

[DigitalSciGuy]

The new Downtown Crossing portal seems pretty much complete and ready to go. Any idea when they'll be opening that up and shuttering the existing portal for demo?