Department of Construction/Civil Engineering Technology CMCE 1224 MATERIALS & METHODS OF CONSTRUCTION II Date: April 19th, 2021 To: All CMCE 1224 Students From: Prof

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Department of Construction/Civil Engineering Technology CMCE 1224 MATERIALS & METHODS OF CONSTRUCTION II Date: April 19th, 2021 To: All CMCE 1224 Students From: Prof. M. Todd Re: Term Project Presentation Outline & Date Schedule Spring Semester 2021 The following term paper/presentation shall include the following: 1) Discuss site footprint and layout 2) Description: a) Identify designer b) Materials of construction c) Building type d) Structural system e) Style f) Façade material 3) Photographs of building/construction or process of your topic 4) Analysis of the building structure 5) Diagrams of the buildings, ex. Number of floors, foundation style, mechanical systems 6) Provide timeline of your building/topic Please submit all your Powerpoint presentations to my e-mail address at: mtodd@citytech.cuny.edu will be submitted to me as a pdf file the day of your presentation. Schedule of Presentations as follows: Thursday, May 6th, 2021: Grand Central Station - Deuris P. Trump Tower - Laury E. Holland Tunnel – Thomas B. Brooklyn Bridge – MD Rahman Tuesday, May 11th, 2021: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Jacob Javits Center – Michael To Empire State Building – Steven T. New Second Avenue Subway – Colin A. Baruch College - Narcisa M. CBS Building - Martin P. Thursday, May 13th, 2021: 1. Woolworth Building – Hamid Ali 2. United Nations – Hasani L. 3. Museum of Natural History/Rose Center for Earth & Science – Silvia C. 4. #7 Train Subway Extension – Ryan Y. Tuesday May 18th, 2021: 1. 2. 3. 4. New York Times Office Building – Lopsang L. New Whitney Museum (Renzo Piano) - Shavone Freedom Tower SOM (David Childs) - Alexis Barclays Arena – Kelvin L. Tuesday May 20th, 2021: 1. 2. 3. 4. Chrysler Building – Steven M. Verrazano Bridge – Keonna R. TWA Terminal at JFK Airport – Christos K. Sony Building – Eric O. 1 WOOLWORTH BUILDING Student’s Name Professor’s Name Course Number Date Woolworth Building INTRODUCTION Established across the world's highest building since its 1913 completion, Woolworth Block is around 60 stories 772 feet across Broadway, linking Park Place to Barclay Street in downtown Manhattan. The cash-financed house, engineered by Frank W. Woolworth, has been well established for its revolutionary support beams and its beautiful aesthetic and functional design, as well as five millionaire Cass Gilbert. For ages, the Woolworth Building has been a design, but its height doesn't equal the later skyscrapers, along with the Empire State Building (1930), which is still the favored sight on the New York City skyline. USE OF MATERIAL • Design high-rise buildings: structural steel resists natural strengths such as wind and earthquakes. It's a lightweight metal, so the building's steel part doesn't crash but bend in case of a hurricane or earthquake. • Structural sections: they provide a robust, stiff building frame and constitute 25% of building steel use. • Solidation bar: adds strength and stiffness to concrete tensile and represented 44 percent of the building use of steel. Steel has a similar thermal expansion coefficient, solid, and comparatively 2 WOOLWORTH BUILDING cost-effective because it bonds well to concrete. In addition to providing deep foundations and basements, reinforced concrete is currently the world's primary building material. • Board material: 31% for sheet items, such as roofs, springs, interior walls, foundations, roofs, and insulation sheets, for exterior walls. • non-stainless steel: in many non-structural applications, steel can also be used in buildings, such as heating and cooling devices and internal pipes. • Internal fittings and fittings are also made of steel, for example, rails, rails, and staircases. DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION Gilbert also gained national acclaim for his construction of the Minnesota state capital, St. Paul. He has a graduate in Engineering from the Institute of Massachusetts, MIT, and a shortterm from a prominent New York business named McKim, Rye, and White. With Woolworth, he decides to an exquisite layout representing his belief that he's been an ancestor of elegant Gothic imagery of the most important medieval traders. The architecture of high skyscrapers and records and forecast details from the early 1930s were completed by 1913, including the Skyscraper. The huge foundation of Woolworth Building has become a street down Sunset boulevard from Park Place to Barclay Lane, next to City Hall Park. The slim, steel-framed tower was almost unanimously accepted, and skyscrapers constructed the whole theme. The Woolworth Structure has received depredations due to the luxuriant architectural design, along with its beautiful white, terracotta facade with discreet, vivid highlights such as the Cathedral lobby with mosaics and sculptures and gold-covered beams. The hall has been open to the general public for years and has been lined with lively Woolworth cartoons that count his dimes. 3 WOOLWORTH BUILDING A landmark in Manhattan In the wake of the Eiffel Tower, the Woolworth Structure has been the 2nd biggest structure in the globe, 792 feet down. The Chrysler Construction (19,30), like the Emperor Capitol Building, was earlier demolished (1931). It was 17 years before the adjacent Wall Street Tower was constructed, the tallest buildings in Eden. The Woolworth Building has been one of America's top Fifty buildings and NYC City's top 20 buildings in 1966. The Woolworth Building has become a project for many years, but its elevation does not match the subsequent skyscrapers, including the Emperor STA Tower (1930), still an ideal vision on the skyline of NYC. The skyline appears emblematic of New York City, while the observatory floor, once publicly accessible, was demolished in the middle of the 20th century. In September 1910, ruining teams dismantled the fifth and sixth-story constructions that once inhabited the property. Officially started work on November 4 1910, using a contract signed directly by Frank Woolworth, with The Foundation Firm's excavation. The valuation of the site in the first phase was increased around $2.25 million immediately. The $1 million deal was listed as the largest fundraiser contract in the world. The decision on a general building firm took Woolworth months. Horowitz was locally in New York; despite its younger existence, Horowitz worked before for Fuller, but he possessed a similar knowledge base. The Skyscraper Company of George A. Fuller was well-established and had invented built skyscrapers building. The contract for design and structural parts for the assured infrastructure value of $4,308,500 was signed with Thompson-Starrett on April 20, 1911. Because of Woolworth's effort to persuade the corporation to do this free because of its reputation, it received 300,000 dollars for its administrative and operational operations. Hundreds of employees were employed during the 4 WOOLWORTH BUILDING building period and per day salaries for skilled laborers ranged from $1.50 ($39 comparable) to 4.50 dollars (the equivalent of $116 in 2019). By August 1911, prior to the date of September 15, the pillars of the structure were accomplished; production of the steel frame began on August 15. There are so many utilization concrete blocks and roller straps that a group of investigators looked at the roads to avoid cleaning the paths. Steel was delivered to its factories in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh for further than 45 weeks either by American Bridge Company. The first underground stainless steel was constructed in October 1911, and on February 1, 1912, a terracotta system was built. The building expanded at 1 1/2 processing a week and was installed in six straight 8 hours, at 1.153 tons of stainless steel. On February 18, 1912, the stainless steel frame touched the 18th floor. The steel structure at the organization's 30th floor surpassed the top by April 6, 1912, and the started construction. By May 30, steel reached the 47th level, and two weeks ahead of time of the timetable, an official ceremony took place on July 1, 1912. By the end of the year, the skyscrapers were significantly finished. Floor Plans: The Woolworth Building 5 WOOLWORTH BUILDING The plan shows that the 110 million dollars building on top of the landmark tower – a Pinnacle unit – occupies 9,400 cubic feet and just under 500 cubic feet outside. So Alchemy is calling for an airport at the top of the tower at about 11700 dollars per square foot, by far a record for Downtown and one of the city's priestly listings. In general, the average price for the Woolworth Tour Residences with 34 condo units is 4,172 dollars per foot, with the total prices of 443.7 million dollars. Prices begin at 3.9 million dollars, and the 44th floor is equivalent to a 1.290 square foot pad, which suggests that the revenue outlook in Alchemy is much more optimistic than it had been in June when The news announced that $3.5 million was being demanded. THE REAL DEAL According to the floor plan for the Pinnacle, the building will consist of three suites, three bathrooms and three powder rooms, and a private lift. The largest living and dining areas will be on the 50th and 51st floors, with more than 4,700 square meters between them. 6 WOOLWORTH BUILDING The Royal Deal looked at the bid proposal to change Woolworth Building's top from the Alchemy properties. As one would have it, it was based on the building plan: "The plan revealed that the 110 million dollars building on the iconic tower – a unit named the Pinnacle – would cover 9,400 square feet with just under 500 square feet of open space. This means that Alchemy asks the eyrie for $11,700 a square foot." Lovers of Crossword recognize the last word as aerie more. 50th floor: 51st floor: 53rd floor: 7 WOOLWORTH BUILDING 55th floor: 57th floor: 58th floor: Work cited: View of Woolworth Building and surrounding buildings, New York City. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, . History.com Editors. “Woolworth Building.” HISTORY, A&E Television Networks, August 21 2018, www.history.com/topics/landmarks/woolworth-building. Cass Gilbert. Woolworth Building. JSTOR, jstor.org/stable/10.2307/community.14643228. Accessed March 30 2021. You are viewing Michelle mtodd@citytech.cuny.e...'s screen View Options View Steel/Masonry (continued) The building rose at the rate of 1.5 stories a week and the steelworkers set a speed record for assembling 1,153 tons of steel in Six consecutive cieht hour days. Ini April of 1912, the 30 story base was completed and Ironworkers began raising the 30 story tower on which the pinnacle and observation deck were built (Completion of the superstructure made the Woolworth building the tallest structure in the world until 1930.) 20 1 Leave Unmute Start Video Participants Chat Share Screen Record Reactions You are viewing Michelle mtodd@citytech.cuny.e...'s screen View Options View Steel/Masonry (continued) Rivets were used throughout most of the steel connections, as was common practice at the time. The rivets were molded at a Slalion just below the work area, then "tossed“ up to an ironworker who would mate the connection and set the rivet. The official top out ceremony took place two weeks ahead of schedule on July 1, 1912, as the last rivet was driven into the surmil ol the tower [Perched atop the spire, an Ironworker signals to a crane operator for an incoming load. Note lack of fall protection, even at over 750') 20 1 Leave Unmute Start Video Participants Chat Share Screen Record Reactions