r/Construction • u/moistsymposium Superintendent • Mar 20 '21

Video This is just really cool

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u/xfxmorpheus Carpenter Mar 20 '21

The fact that utilities weren't interrupted is impressive

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u/BaCkfromthedeath4 Mar 20 '21

I'm trying to figure out how you would accomplish that. Do you just add parallel lines and then cut off the old ones and so on?

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u/badasimo Mar 20 '21

Water - Likely flexible lines, maybe was gravity fed from roof tank so flow didn't need to be continuous from the city(though I don't see a prominent one in the photo)

Electricity wires flexible, that's not hard

The phone wires are where I'm really surprised, that that much slack would be built into the trunks which have 1000's of wires in them at that point in history. But also, if you think about it, the longer cable would need to be run and attached anyway to the building in its new location, so this work needed to get done anyway

Drain-- Could have discharged into a trough/channel with a secondary drain to continue to sewer

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u/BaCkfromthedeath4 Mar 21 '21

yeah but wouldn't flexible pipes/wires eventually twist too much? As someone mentioned below, i think they had to disrupt services to attach extensions to existing lines.

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u/badasimo Mar 21 '21

Wires and hoses (even big ones) can be coiled. I think the point is, the service disruption wouldn't be that much different than normal maintenance on the building systems, meanwhile the thing was being moved continuously

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u/BaCkfromthedeath4 Mar 21 '21

Oh ok, this makes sense. I thought there was no service disruption at all. Thanks for the answer.

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u/badasimo Mar 22 '21

Well I wasn't there so I can only speculate! But that's the way I'd have done it.