Items Tagged with 'speed core'

Thanks to its modular heart of steel, the structure of Seattle’s 850-ft-tall skyscraper rose twice as fast as a steel frame with a leading concrete core

Cheerleaders for steel buildings with modular composite plate-steel cores have found ways to simplify the novel system for high-rises.

As predicted, the Erection Co. topped out Seattle’s 850-ft-tall Rainier Square Tower, with its radical composite steel frame dubbed “speed core,” in only 10 months.