Patrick
06-29-2005, 01:05 PM
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"Revamped Freedom Tower Has Safer Design
Wednesday, June 29, 2005
NEW YORK — The newest plan for the Freedom Tower (search) at the former World Trade Center (search) site features a more bomb-resistant design pushed well away from the street and incorporating heavily protected elevators and utilities.
The details are part of a redesign detailed Wednesday for the soaring skyscraper in lower Manhattan, a project that has been delayed by bureaucratic squabbling.
The new design for the 1,776-foot tower is meant to make it more resistant to truck bombs. The building will now be 90 feet — instead of 25 feet — from West Street, the major north-south thoroughfare along the Hudson River.
The strengthened structure exceeds city fire code requirements, and will have biological and chemical filters in its air supply system, according to a statement posted online by the Lower Manhattan Development Corp.
The tower will have extra-wide emergency stairs, a dedicated staircase just for firefighters, enhanced elevators and "areas of refuge" on each floor. Stairs, communications, sprinklers and elevators will be encased in 3-foot-thick walls.
The tower will be capped with a mast incorporating an antenna, meant to suggest the torch of the Statue of Liberty. "
"Revamped Freedom Tower Has Safer Design
Wednesday, June 29, 2005
NEW YORK — The newest plan for the Freedom Tower (search) at the former World Trade Center (search) site features a more bomb-resistant design pushed well away from the street and incorporating heavily protected elevators and utilities.
The details are part of a redesign detailed Wednesday for the soaring skyscraper in lower Manhattan, a project that has been delayed by bureaucratic squabbling.
The new design for the 1,776-foot tower is meant to make it more resistant to truck bombs. The building will now be 90 feet — instead of 25 feet — from West Street, the major north-south thoroughfare along the Hudson River.
The strengthened structure exceeds city fire code requirements, and will have biological and chemical filters in its air supply system, according to a statement posted online by the Lower Manhattan Development Corp.
The tower will have extra-wide emergency stairs, a dedicated staircase just for firefighters, enhanced elevators and "areas of refuge" on each floor. Stairs, communications, sprinklers and elevators will be encased in 3-foot-thick walls.
The tower will be capped with a mast incorporating an antenna, meant to suggest the torch of the Statue of Liberty. "