*WARNING* THIS POST IS ABOUT CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS IN THE NEW FREEDOM TOWER, BUT MAY BE CONSTRUED AS POSTED IN THE WRONG CATEGORY BY THOSE READERS THAT ARE EASILY MIFFED BY SUBJECT MATTER THAT HAS CROSS REFERENTIAL CATAGORIAL COMPONENTS!
Though the original Twin Towers were built with 100% American made glass, the new Freedom Tower's construction crews will install Chinese glass, German steel and other construction material manufactured mostly in other parts of the world.
Maybe the Mosque that will be built close to the site will use American manufactured construction material?
AS3
This post just gleans of someone trying to get themselves kicked off of a website.
You know good and well that this will go political and, in my opinion, you are just trying to cause problems for the administrators.
Yeah the last sentence... give me a break.
This is really old news. Both the Chinese part and the German part have been known for years, and there are many others sources of materials outside the USA.
What that articles do not state is that the upper floors will be sheathed in glass made by Guardian here in the US.
And also, in recent moths, it has been determined that the glass ordered for the lower floors will not meet the safety specifications needed, so the Chinese glass may be out of the picture altogether.
For example the largest columns at the bottom floors were fabrictaed in Luxembourg, the location of one of the world's only plants that builds columns large enough.
It has been known for several years, and in fact the article in the link is from January 2010. Outsourcing is not unusual....in fact, the world's tallest building, Burj Khalifa, was built by a joint venture of South Korean and Belgian firms, along with a UAE firm.
After all, wasn't it a Chinese corporation (Beijing Vantone Industrial Co., Ltd.), a real estate investment company, that was the first to sign on as a tenant?
Who were they supposed to call, Bethlehem Steel? Of the top 30 steel companies in the world, exactly two are American....US Steel (11th) and NuCor (14th)
Interestingly, eight of the top ten are Korean, Japanese or Chinese. Number 1 is AreclorMittal (Lux) and number 10 is Indian.
As for the glass, one of America's largest glass procucers (Guardian) supplied the glass for the Burj tower....but the manufactured it in their factories in Germany and Luxembourg.
German engineering is a good thing!! 😉 😀
They could hang a plaque that says sponsored by Volkswagen, Bayerische Motoren Werke, Mercedes-Benz, Porsche, und Audi!
At least the trees came from New York, Washington, and Pennsylvania!
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/tree_grows_at_ground_zero_0i0XmO64o4jS8Y66ljFFPJ
Well, it is the World Trade Center.
This is old news.
The design for the lower floors by the architect called for very large shhets of glass that could not be made in thye USA.
If anyone viewed some of thr recent documtaries on the rebuilding , they covered this topic.
Not only are they large but it is also a new design of glass.
The lower floors were to be a prismatic glass that has never been accomplished before in construction.Thye would reflect and emit prismatic light at the site. They are very thick panels with a triangular bevel exterior finish
The problem has been that they ca't be manufactured as a true safety glass. When it breaks, the glass produces shards.
If you seen any of the recent photos of the tower construction, you see the lower floors are not sheathed with glass because of this failure to produce the prismatic glass in China.
They may have to go to a plan B if they have one.
Thus was a big setback in the construction.
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Well then, its a good thing that you are wrong. Looks like even after hundreds of views, no one has gone as rogue as you speculated.
AS3
That does not change the fact that, that was what you were looking for.
> That does not change the fact that, that was what you were looking for.
????? Bizarro.
That may be your opinion, but you would be wrong. Was looking for thoughts about the construction material and domestic manufactuing.
Toodles,
AS3
They could at least buy the steel from a facility located in America.
Obviously somebody doesn't understand the construction materials bidding process.
I don't know for sure (as I don't have access to the actual bid list), but I suspect that American suppliers were invited to submit bids for the items in questions, as well as all the other materials being used.
Now, we could argue over the many reasons that American Glass and Steel seem to have priced themselves out of the market, but most of that is political in nature and doesn't belong in this category.
I will say that I don't give a rat's ass what is being used to construct the tower (as long as it meets safety standards), because it doesn't matter what it was made out of or where the parts came from.
The important thing is what the tower itself stands for and as an American, I am very proud of that.
Yeah, right.
