Construction Update - Week of November 19, 2012

Steel erection for the building and vestibule have been completed. To commemorate the setting of the last piece of steel, KLC and KHF employees, city officials and project team members were invited onsite to sign the last beam before flown into place. The signed beam is located on the third floor to allow future viewing once the building is complete, by pushing up a ceiling tile to see the exposed beam above the ceiling grid.

Decking and detailing will continue this week, along with setting precast embeds in preparation for next week's concrete elevated deck pours. Along with setting the precast embeds, the concrete placers will also install the WWF and rebar required within the 2nd and 3rd floor composite floor slabs.

Last beam set-up for signatures

 

Iron workers setting the last beam

 

Last beam in place - NE corner of the building

Structural steel frame complete

Constuction Update - Week of November 5, 2012

Structural steel erection continues; the iron workers are erecting steel from west to east as the crane works its way across the building pad. Steel erection is complete from 1st through the roof at grid lines 1 to 3. The iron workers have begun decking at the second floor and will move to the third floor once that steel is standing.

Steel erection; view looking NW - 11/6

Steel erection; view looking NW - 11/8

Steel erection; view looking NW - 11/9

 



 Underside of the 2nd floor metal deck

 

View of steel structure at the east elevation (looking west)

 



As the steel structure is set and plumbed, the concrete finishers grout the columns with high strength grout.

Formwork surrounding column base plate / bolt settings