A really tall one in Chicago
A really tall one in Chicago
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When was the last time you drove down the highway without seeing a commercial truck hauling goods?
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A really tall one in Chicago
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RE: A really tall one in Chicago
Doesn't Chicago have enough experience with flooded basements alongside the Chicago River?!?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Flood
RE: A really tall one in Chicago
Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
RE: A really tall one in Chicago
RE: A really tall one in Chicago
RE: A really tall one in Chicago
RE: A really tall one in Chicago
what is the character of the city? all the tall buildings in the photograph look different from each other anyway!
The first skyscraper would not have fitted the character of the city either.
RE: A really tall one in Chicago
RE: A really tall one in Chicago
A technical 2 cents, on the other side, is that, speaking of perimeter steel columns, the dark building that you see on the right side of the tower in question, has had problems with settlement.
RE: A really tall one in Chicago
RE: A really tall one in Chicago
This story gives depth to the limestone bedrock as 110 feet. The earlier design involved drilling keyholes into bedrock & then filling 10 ft.-diameter shafts 80 feet long with 10,000 psi concrete to support a 10 ft thick concrete mat foundation 35 feet subgrade.
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