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The floor above . Because the slabs on grade is a conventional slap, it is not post tension. One of the things the building designers do is to make the floor as thin as they reasonably can. There are several benefits to that. First of all, it reduces the mass of the building. We have 7. 5 inch slab. Conventional slab would probably be 10. 5 inches, which is about 25 more concrete mass. It also reduces the overall floor to floor height, which helps with the architectural facade and the square footage. One of the things people are always looking at is decreasing the floor to floor height, especi...

Kinds of cranes around the city. We have a fixed height crane, like this, and then we have some that are climbing cranes. This is a Free Standing crane, not bolted down. About all of these big concrete waits . 160 pounds of concrete is the ballast week. Did you have to pour a Big Foundation under that . This is a construction method that we get to, we work with the contractor. We get a load from the crane manufacturer, figure out the downward load and the overturn load. We then make sure that the foundation can take that load. Also, all the anchors on the floor are adequate. Why would you do t...

Be heated and cooled with forced air, that is where you get the dropped ceiling. Also, corridors and public areas. The dwelling units do not have airconditioning . They do not. They have heating but not air conditioning. Do they have outside air . Absolutely, they have windows and they also have a system called zduct, which provides for a share even when the windows are closed. One of the reasons they have the systems, ever since 1974, chapter 12day of the Building Code requires that you have sound transmission isolation between dwelling units so they cannot hear their neighbors, and between t...

The decision was to go forward. We have had decisions where it rains and we have the guy standing behind with the umbrella. But the weather is a call that is made the dayof the event in the two state dinners you were responsible for; were the inside the whitehouse or did you have the tent . For mexico we were inside for dinner and then outside for a tent where beyonce performed. For china, we had three tables in three different rooms and everything was inside the whitehouse your work is done by the time the dinner is underway. So what is your job like on this night . You are running around mak...

Crane safety programs to make sure that the Building Department is collecting all the information, but we reply. We rely on kali should do the actual infection. What did they do for an inspection . They bring about 20,000 pounds of test weights and check all the weight limits and wells and electronics and connections and the limits. They do everything. Is there somebody up there right now . There is thomas in the cab. Can you get him on the radio and have him weve to us. And have him wave to us. There is a job. There is no bathroom. We will not discuss that. The safety rules say there have to ...