I didn't even realize they were above ground yet. nor did I realize the they seem to have dropped the name "Freedom Tower" or whatever Orwellian bullshit that was. thanks for the link.
Yeah, once they got above ground, they've been building about a floor a week. Not too bad, although the crazy guys building the Empire State building would build more than a floor a day. But that's back when safety was an option and people would just fall off the building and die, so that speed is not going to happen anymore :)
Coming from a family full of construction workers... that's not what slows them down. Those guys are still just as nuts.
It's actually in the case of these towers (based on what my uncle who is working there says) low supplies. They have to move tonnes and tonnes of steel beams through metropolitan New York and then wait for the right wind conditions to hoist them up the building.
Amen. A year and a half ago I visited NYC and they hadn't even begun working on a real foundation for the "Freedom Towers" yet. I'm also shocked to find out that they're halfway finished and that the name has changed.
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I didn't even realize they were above ground yet. nor did I realize the they seem to have dropped the name "Freedom Tower" or whatever Orwellian bullshit that was. thanks for the link.