Location
Arlington, Virginia
Date
13 Aug 2008, 4:45 pm - 5:15 pm
Abstract
Construction of high-rise towers in New York City continues to provide exciting challenges for design and construction teams. Sites are becoming increasingly more difficult to build on as “desirable” locations have long since been developed and developers are constructing on sites that were previously over looked. This paper describes two projects that provided unique challenges to the engineers and contractors. The first site is the New York Times Headquarters Tower. This site appeared to be a fairly straightforward foundation design, but became complicated as the subsurface conditions were uncovered. The second case history is the new Bank of America Tower which presented significant design challenges from the outset as it entailed a three basement excavation adjacent to subways and a historic theater façade that required protection. In both cases, close collaboration between the owner, design engineers, construction manager and eventual foundation contractors was required to complete the projects in a timely manner and without adversely affecting adjacent subways, pedestrian traffic, or adjacent historical structures.
Department(s)
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Meeting Name
6th Conference of the International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering
Publisher
Missouri University of Science and Technology
Document Version
Final Version
Rights
© 2008 Missouri University of Science and Technology, All rights reserved.
Creative Commons Licensing
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
Document Type
Article - Conference proceedings
File Type
text
Language
English
Recommended Citation
Canale, Tony D.; Moskowitz, Joel; and Kaufman, James L., "New York City High-Rises on Rock: Uncovering the Unknown Leads to Variable Foundation Solutions" (2008). International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering. 4.
https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/icchge/6icchge/session13/4
New York City High-Rises on Rock: Uncovering the Unknown Leads to Variable Foundation Solutions
Arlington, Virginia
Construction of high-rise towers in New York City continues to provide exciting challenges for design and construction teams. Sites are becoming increasingly more difficult to build on as “desirable” locations have long since been developed and developers are constructing on sites that were previously over looked. This paper describes two projects that provided unique challenges to the engineers and contractors. The first site is the New York Times Headquarters Tower. This site appeared to be a fairly straightforward foundation design, but became complicated as the subsurface conditions were uncovered. The second case history is the new Bank of America Tower which presented significant design challenges from the outset as it entailed a three basement excavation adjacent to subways and a historic theater façade that required protection. In both cases, close collaboration between the owner, design engineers, construction manager and eventual foundation contractors was required to complete the projects in a timely manner and without adversely affecting adjacent subways, pedestrian traffic, or adjacent historical structures.
