Largest Column Installed Yet At World Trade Center Site (PHOTOS)
Workers at One World Trade Center have set a 70-ton piece of steel into place, making it the largest column installed yet at the tragic construction site.
The column is one of four supposed to go up this week, with a total of 24 planned to be in place by the fall.
Each of the roughly 60-foot long columns was made in Luxembourg and will help make the Freedom Tower, as One World Trade Center is also known, rise 1,776 feet in the air.
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This will take longer to build than Sagrada Família
Hey it's only been two and a half years since ground breaking !! At this rate it will be finished by ........
On January 22, 1930 they started excavation of the site of what was to be t the Empire State Building thought the construction officially started on March 17 1930. The building was opened on May 1, 1931. What does this say about the sad state of both New York State and the country today as a whole.
5 workers did die during the rushed construction.
Additionally, because of the great depression both labor and materials were easily accessible and cheap.
Strange how the third photo in the slide show looks like a x-ian cross. Just sayin'
Luxembourg steel is owned by Osama Bin Laden.
the column is 70 tons.....
You can thank the Chinese for the name change to One World Trade Center. In part.
"Freedom Tower" didn't work for what's to be the building's first tenants, though the Port Authority downplayed the quid pro quo.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/03/27/no.freedom.tower/index.html
Luxembourg !?!
I hear you!!! Why isn't the work being done in this country, instead of Luxembourg?
It took so long cause bush could not figure out how to profiteer from the reconstruction. bush=TOTAL FAILURE
So if he could have figured out a way to make a buck he would not have failed in your eyes? You need to move forward and clean yourself of the h.ate.
How fast could thermite cut through that steel?
While conventional thermite is considered an incendiary, burning hot and fast at steel-melting 4500-degree temperatures, so-called "nano-thermite" or "super-thermite" mixtures can be explosive — as proudly noted in the Los Alamos announcement below (click to enlarge).
According to lead author Niels Harrit, a professor of chemistry at the University of Copenhagen, "These new findings confirm and extend the earlier finding of previously molten, iron-rich microspheres in the World Trade Center dust. They provide strong forensic evidence that the official explanation of the WTC's destruction is wrong. Office fires and jet fuel cannot produce these highly engineered, dangerous particles."
http://www.ae911truth.org/info/57
But bush and cheney can.. BUSH/CHENEY MASTERMINDED 911, NOT OSAMA BIN BUSH. HE WAS JUST THE TRIGGER ORGINIZATION.
OMG 911 was secret plot to ATTACK IRAQ because GEORGE W BUSH likes to eat a big fish especially he likes the IRAQI fish MASGOUF.
LOOK IT UP THAT IS A REAL FISH DISH OMG
You belong with the far right people....lost in space.
I think the men and women working at Ground Zero are doing a wonderful job - they should be commended. However it is very much being held in red tape and bureaucracy - and from what I understand, the victims wanted a memorial garden, a place of peace and sanctuary to remember.
I was at Ground Zero in March 2008 - it was a humbling experience I can tell you - and it saddens me that in a year and a half this is the only major construction move made. In eight years, this is not good and to me, only shows a disregard by bureaucrats for the emotive place this holds int he hearts of Americans and those of us outside who care.
How many women are working there? Have some numbers? Just curious.
Rough guess 3,000? Not all at once.
This column is far from the only work done since March 2008.
There has been extensive work done below grade, including the framework for what will be the eventual memorial's waterfalls at the twin towers' footprints.
~ New York Engineer
My apologies on that account then. Like I say, the men and women working there are doing a good job - as I already said, and I am aware there is a lot of structural underground work to do within the footprint of the site, but you have to concede that above ground, red tape has caused a slowness to the work.
What?The US can not make steel any longer.Man that is sad.
A true National Embarrassment. Construction should have been done by the time Bush was done.
Sure if we wanted to lean like one does in Italy but we didnt. Unlike our politicals views in America a left or right leaning building would not have been helpful at 1776 feet tall.
hmm.... You would think in a recession that people would try to boost American industry by having American steel Columns used.
Or is Luxembourg somewhere in the Iron range?.... I am not very patriotic at the moment-- but the economy is in a hole and we need to help get it out of there. And speaking of Hole-- why is the memorial planned for The WTC two waterfalls that cascade into a hole in the ground? I cant think of something more depressing than water that flows into an abyss in the foundations of the buildings foot prints....
Steel is and has been for the last 50 years an international commodity. The original WTC used steel from the US, Britain and Japan. The majority of the exterior columns of the twin towers were fabricated by Pacific Car and Foundry in Seattle, using steel from Japan. That one contract made up 1/5th of the entire steel used in the project. Nothing new.
It's supposed to be depressing, dude, it's a memorial to the victims of 9/11. What did you expect, party balloons?
fantastic! i expect to see another article on this site in 2017: "Second Largest Column Installed..."
try 2025----------
no no, 2025 is when they realize that they've build the thing 1776 feet wide and 100 feet tall.
To all my HIGH RISE BROTHERS.....GO GET UM!
I am proud of you and I wish I was there!
and to all the WOMEN working on the project.....times have changed since the last time there was a building on that site. Be proud and strong and let them men know you are in CHARGE.
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First Posted: 08-12-09 10:35 PM | Updated: 08-13-09 10:02 AM