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23/11/07 Building Challenge - Those Clever Clogs!
LONDON, UK - I’ve been watching a new high-rise office block being built in Canary Wharf for 8 months now. Below is an aerial shot (the coloured patterned bit) of the plot they are building on before they demolished that building.
It is bounded by water on 2 sides, and roads on the other 2 sides, and surrounded flush by a footpath. The builders cannot but anything outside of the area of the tower footprint. So where do they put the cranes?
You have to place 3 of these somewhere for the entire construction phase… where do you place them?
I’ll reveal the answer after a few comments! I couldn’t guess it myself, but I bet someone here gets it first-time.
-Robin
Tags: building, challenge, cranes
4 Comments
they put them up in lift shafts in most buildings is that not what they did here?
or perhaps a barge crane?
The lift shaft is the traditional one (how high rises are traditionally done). However with 2 side covered with water, they could build something on the water (or over the water) as a bridge.
Don’t know how deep the water is and a barge crane has tipping over problems.
Damn! You guys are good!
I’d never seen that before! Yes - they have build around the cranes from the ground up, having positioned the cranes where the lift shafts were to be built. They have now built entirely up around the 3 cranes on-site up to 16 floors (almost liberty hall), with just the crane tops peeking out now.
Clever - I never though of lift-shafts as the only through hole in the building - i.e. I have only ever encountered them with a lift in the way!
