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I got guys working outside within a couple hundred feet of the Chukchi Sea right now. NOAA says the weather is:

TODAY...PARTLY CLOUDY. PATCHY FOG. HIGHS 10 BELOW TO 15 BELOW.
NORTHWEST WINDS TO 10 MPH.
.TONIGHT...PARTLY CLOUDY. PATCHY FOG. LOWS 20 BELOW TO 25 BELOW.
NORTHWEST WINDS 10 TO 15 MPH.

My guy says the CF is about -40 and that we'll be done around noon and the crew will be on the 3pm plane home. The other crews working on the site aren't out there today.
 
"A federal judge in New Orleans has ordered a Chinese manufacturer to pay seven Virginia families a total of $2.6 million for damages to their homes attributed to drywall problems. The decision is certain to impact pending lawsuits filed by thousands of homeowners around the country whose residences were badly damaged by leeching sulfur from inferior-grade drywall imported from China.
The Chinese drywall — used by many builders in recent years as a cheaper alternative to American-made product — has been linked to a host of problems by homeowners around the country, including corroded electrical wiring, appliance outages, rotting walls and personal belongings, as well as ill health caused by the acrid sulfur fumes. Many of the damaged homes are in Florida, Virginia and throughout the Gulf region, where builders used the cheaper Chinese drywall to construct new homes following Hurricane Katrina and other storms.

U.S. District Judge Eldon Fallon of the Eastern District of Louisiana apportioned damages to seven Virginia families and is expected to rule again on another case involving a New Orleans homeowner whose post-Katrina residence was badly damaged by Chinese drywall. Another trial is scheduled to begin in early June on behalf of additional homeowners in the Gulf region.

In his 108-page ruling, Judge Fallon noted that Chinese drywall has a “significantly higher concentration of strontium and significantly more detectable levels of elemental sulfur” than drywall manufactured in the U.S. He further wrote that the “level of corrosive sulfur gases emitted by Chinese drywall…exceeded the safe level established by recognized standards.” "

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40 mph in an elevator - wheeeee!

from biz-week:

"Frank Lloyd Wright predicted U.S. suburban sprawl when he said the shape of modern cities would be decided by the winner of a race between the car and the elevator. "Anyone who bets on the elevator is crazy," he said.

China may prove him wrong. Some 350 million Chinese—more than today's entire U.S. population—will move to China's cities in the next decade and half, according to McKinsey, and government measures to limit sprawl and protect farmland mean developers have to build up rather than out. McKinsey estimates that as many as 50,000 skyscrapers will be built in China over the next 15 years, the equivalent of 10 Manhattans.

The prospect of that building bonanza has manufacturers racing for a piece of an $11.7 billion annual Chinese elevator market that researcher Freedonia Group predicts will more than double within eight years. While Otis Elevator leads with a 23 percent share, lesser-known elevator makers hope to make names for themselves by breaking speed records or winning trophy contracts in the world's tallest structures.

"If you have more tall buildings, you're going to need more lifts," says Philip Oldfield, a researcher at the Chicago-based Council on Tall Buildings & Urban Habitat. "It's that simple."

Hitachi (HIT) in April finished building a $66 million, 50-story testing tower. The company will use it to develop elevators that can break the speed record, currently held by Toshiba. Two days after the tower opened, Hyundai Elevator vowed to take the title by midyear.

Hitachi and Hyundai are racing to be first with elevators that can climb at an ear-popping 40 mph, roughly the vertical speed of a Boeing (BA) 777. The one-upmanship extends even to the testing towers, where the two are dueling over which has the world's tallest. Hitachi won by tacking on a 33-foot lightning rod.

"It's a very expensive sideshow, but they want to get into the big boys' playground," says James Fortune, a veteran elevator consultant who has advised architects on some of the world's tallest buildings, including the current record holder, Dubai's Burj Khalifa. "You don't hear the big guys bragging about the world's fastest elevators."

The world's biggest elevator maker is Otis, which supplied the 57 lifts for the 128-story Burj Khalifa. Its share of the world market slipped to 20 percent in 2008 from 26 percent four years earlier, according to Freedonia. Otis, a subsidiary of United Technologies (UTX), had sales of $11.7 billion last year, 50 percent more than the elevator sales of its closest rival, Switzerland's Schindler Holding.

To grab share in China, Otis will soon start construction on a fifth Chinese factory. The plant in the inland city of Chongqing is meant to capitalize on a government push to help less-developed areas catch up with coastal cities like Shanghai and Guangzhou. The government's "go-west policy" is one reason about half of the 450,000 elevators installed this year worldwide will go up in Chinese buildings, according to Jeff Pulling, Otis' head of high-rise operations.

Chinese manufacturers are also ramping up. Shenyang Brilliant Elevator, which has become one of the country's biggest domestic lift makers since opening in 2002, will move in July to a 222-acre elevator factory in Shenyang that vice general manager George Tsong says will be the world's largest. The new plant will crank out about 50,000 elevators a year.

Marquee projects make great advertising, says Shinji Sasaki, general manager for overseas marketing at Mitsubishi Electric's elevator unit. Mitsubishi supplied 61 elevators for the Jin Mao Tower, a skyscraper in Shanghai's financial district that was China's tallest building from 1999 until 2008. "We take clients there and have them see for themselves," Sasaki says. "We've landed a lot of sales from that."

That marketing effect is what Toshiba (TOSBF) was looking for when it cut an "irresistible" deal for the owners of the Taipei 101 tower, says C.P. Wang, principal architect of C.Y. Lee & Partners, which designed it. The world's tallest until Burj Khalifa overtook it this year, the Taipei 101 makes use of 50 elevators, including two express lifts that travel at a world-record 38 mph. "They wanted a building that showcased their abilities, so they threw in the marketing costs," says Wang. "They gave the owner a very good price.""
 
The Moles are busy......

Some $2.5 billion in tunnel projects are under way in New York City as crews bore through rock and soil to build new subway lines. "This is good news for the New York construction industry, and we expect the underground market to help us carry the rest of the construction industry through these very tough times," said Gary Almeraris, vice president of Skanska USA Civil, which has several contracts with the city. Engineering News-Record
 
thør said:
Some $2.5 billion in tunnel projects are under way in New York City as crews bore through rock and soil to build new subway lines. "This is good news for the New York construction industry, and we expect the underground market to help us carry the rest of the construction industry through these very tough times," said Gary Almeraris, vice president of Skanska USA Civil, which has several contracts with the city. Engineering News-Record
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I've done quite a bit of work for Skanska Civil. Very professional outfit.
 
One story every 10 days.......

from the WSJ:

"New Yorkers have lived with a gaping hole where the towers of the World Trade Center once stood for nearly nine years. Construction has moved at such a slow pace that it may prove difficult to adjust to a new phenomenon at Ground Zero: the visible rise of a skyscraper.

A closer look at the site reveals a structure — albeit a rudimentary one — slowly rising from the ground. As the New Yorker’s Lauren Collins writes, by mid-May construction crews had reached the 20th floor of One World Trade Center, the 1,776-foot-tall edifice that will be the centerpiece of the new Ground Zero. That, according to Collins, is “the point beyond which the rest of the stories are easily replicated.”

The goal is to build a new floor every ten days and complete construction of a memorial in time for the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks.

Financial concerns and disagreements between developer Larry Silverstein and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey have paralyzed the Ground Zero rebuilding efforts for years. In March, the two sides came to an agreement, yet construction still seemed to lag.

A major reason: the PATH train continues to run beneath the area where the building is being constructed, thereby slowing the process.

Another factor: bureaucracy. As Collins writes:”Nineteen public agencies, two developers, a hundred and one contractors, and thirty-three architects have stakes in the World Trade Center redevelopment project.”

The Port Authority is set to decide later this month between two major developers — the Durst Organization and Related Cos. — who are vying for the contract to manage and market the building. And the One World Trade center has already attracted interest from a high-profile tenant: Conde Nast. The publishing giant is in talks to fill as much as one million square feet."
 
Put those welders to work!

from KWCH-TV, Wichita

"A $12 billion oil pipeline project is moving through Kansas. Construction has started on the Keystone Pipeline that will eventually move oil from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico. The United States gets more oil from Canada than anywhere else and this pipeline is supposed to make that process easier.

"We're like a trucking company, we get the oil from point A to point B," said Keystone's spokesman Jim Prescott. To get between those points, they need land in Kansas. Early phases of construction are underway in Marion County and will continue south to the Oklahoma line. "This is part of a 4,000 mile pipeline system that will bring 1 million barrels of oil a day to the US," Prescott said.

A hundred miles of pipe is sitting in Augusta right now, the project headquarters. Once construction ramps up in the next month or so, it will all be put underground. "This is a major job. We'll have between 600-700 workers on this project when we're fully manned up," said Jimmy Lovell. He's with Sheehan Pipeline, the contractor building the section in Kansas. They chose Augusta as the hub because it's a halfway point for this section of the pipeline.

A majority of those 600-700 workers travel with the job. But they rent apartments or RV sites and live in town for several months. Keystone says it also buys as much as it can locally. The owner of Augusta's Ace Hardware says the increased business has been good for him so far. He says it will only get better. Prescott estimates they'll spend about $1 billion on the project in Kansas. He says the economic impact is almost twice that when you take into account what the worker's spend while they're in the area.

Prescott says once complete, the pipeline will help provide a constant source of oil to US refineries. He says it will reduce our dependence on oil from places that aren't the greatest to have an energy trade policy with, like Venezuela. For that to happen, they have to complete the pipeline. The Kansas portion should be finished by this fall. Oil will be running through Kansas to Oklahoma by the end of the year. The pipeline from Oklahoma to the Gulf of Mexico still need to be constructed.

When you hear oil pipeline, you may think of what's happening right now in the Gulf of Mexico. This is different because it will carry oil directly to refineries. Prescott says if there is a problem with the pipe, they have shutoff valves every 50 miles. The entire system will be monitored in Canada. The Kansas Pipelines Association says pipeline is the safest way of transporting these kinds of material."
 
you could be walking across a building 5 stories up carry a piece of plywood and almost have the wind off the atlantic on a cold january day blow you off.
happened to me. one of those things that makes you think twice about shitty construction jobs.
 
Too old for North of 60... young men with more strength and less ummm... can HAVE that shit, eh? :D
 
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