SAN FRANCISCO | 181 Fremont | 802 FT | 52 FLOORS - Page 29

simms3_redux · #**561** Posted **Sep 9, 2015, 2:14 AM**

They started working on the 4th above ground floor today.

pseudolus · #**562** Posted **Sep 28, 2015, 3:42 PM**

We have liftoff.

peanut gallery · #**563** Posted **Sep 28, 2015, 8:59 PM**

^Yep, lots of steel being installed today, moving the core up a couple of levels.

rocketman_95046 · #**564** Posted **Oct 4, 2015, 1:42 AM**

They raised the crane today... I think they finally finished welding the base truss.. ready to rock and roll

peanut gallery · #**565** Posted **Oct 6, 2015, 6:46 AM**

From today (sorry about the lighting):

david_h · #**566** Posted **Oct 16, 2015, 9:42 PM**

Looks like they've hit the accelerator now and established two floors in the last ten days

peanut gallery · #**567** Posted **Oct 16, 2015, 10:42 PM**

I think the first few floors were a lot more complicated and from here on up it should move more quickly.

botoxic · #**568** Posted **Oct 17, 2015, 1:34 AM**

Slightly different perspective of Transbay & 181 from my friend's Foundry Square office:

timbad · #**569** Posted **Oct 25, 2015, 6:00 AM**

today.

peanut gallery · #**570** Posted **Oct 26, 2015, 4:12 AM**

It's definitely growing much faster now. Can't wait to see how far they get by the end of the year.

jbm · #**571** Posted **Oct 27, 2015, 5:06 AM**

my office is in SW SOMA and I am very much looking forward to this popping up on the skyline. I think I will have a view of it once it gets up to floor 25 or so.

botoxic · #**572** Posted **Nov 5, 2015, 9:27 PM**

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Originally Posted by rocketman_95046

" Once the structural steel is complete through level two, and the trusses are completely welded, the building will be erected at a rate of three to four floors per week, says Steve DeWees, Level 10 project executive."

Awesome!

3-4 floors per week seems quite ambitious (perhaps impossible), but they have added six stories in the past month. Currently finishing floor 9, if my count is correct:

1977 · #**573** Posted **Nov 8, 2015, 9:27 PM**

New rendering of the base from @181femont

https://twitter.com/181FremontSF

SFSkyline · #**574** Posted **Nov 9, 2015, 6:47 PM**

Those diagonals must make building this a PITA. Just look at where the windows interface with them.

viewguysf · #**575** Posted **Nov 9, 2015, 11:36 PM**

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Originally Posted by SFSkyline

Those diagonals must make building this a PITA. Just look at where the windows interface with them.

It's certainly nothing that hasn't been done numerous times before. Just look at Chicago's John Hancock Center from 1969 and the former Alcoa Building here.

SFSkyline · #**576** Posted **Nov 10, 2015, 5:53 PM**

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Originally Posted by viewguysf

It's certainly nothing that hasn't been done numerous times before. Just look at Chicago's John Hancock Center from 1969 and the former Alcoa Building here.

Just because it's been done before doesn't make it less of a pain in this instance. I do wonder if that bracing is over the windows though. It's unclear from the rendering. I looked at a close-up of Hancock and the bracing is over the windows.

brantw · #**577** Posted **Nov 10, 2015, 8:47 PM**

From today:

viewguysf · #**578** Posted **Nov 10, 2015, 9:42 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by SFSkyline

Just because it's been done before doesn't make it less of a pain in this instance. I do wonder if that bracing is over the windows though. It's unclear from the rendering. I looked at a close-up of Hancock and the bracing is over the windows.

I can well imagine that window washers will find this and our new ribbed buildings a real pain to clean too!

peanut gallery · #**579** Posted **Nov 11, 2015, 12:40 AM**

Next two levels of the core are going up now. They may have two more floors done by the weekend.

simms3_redux · #**580** Posted **Nov 11, 2015, 1:39 AM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by SFSkyline

Just because it's been done before doesn't make it less of a pain in this instance. I do wonder if that bracing is over the windows though. It's unclear from the rendering. I looked at a close-up of Hancock and the bracing is over the windows.

I walk by this building a lot. From what I can tell it appears like it will be over the windows.