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Each slab is going to be in two pours, one every three days. Topping out is set for June.

3 jobsites - 1 camera Vanderbilt In the middle is the Vanderbilt Vivarium, to the left is Adelicia, and to the right is 1108 Condos.

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Here are a few from MRB IV when they were encasing the steel trusses that spanned the existing MRB IV building. Almost too much rebar for any concrete.

It's going to not only be massive, but hideous at the same time. I hope it looks better in real life than on paper.

Sounds like somebody's got a case of the Mondays. Seriously, I would hope that everyone that has visited this post realizes, including yourself, that nobody knows if or when this will be built if the developer doesn't know if or when this will be built. That is why groundbreaking has moved 6 months from the original date given. Any information I have contributed, including groundbreaking dates, has come from conversations with the project management team from Turner Construction. Any information I get in the future I will also post so we can discuss it. Isn't that what we're all here for?

Right cheerio. I think you guys would be amazed at how many changes (mostly from the structural engineer) happen before a project starts. The changes don't stop there either. Changes keep occurring throughout the entire project. Encore is on the 6th floor and yesterday the structural engineer sent out more changes for the 7th floor. The 1st set of drawings for the Siggy lacked many structural details (i.e. concrete slabs were shown, but concrete beams were left blank). Hopefully these new drawings will answer all the questions left from the 1st set requiring this 2nd round of bidding.

Revised contract drawings came out today. Revised bidding is due 2/9. Hopefully shortly there after we will find out if we have a skyscraper or not.

You can imagine the manpower and time commitment this project will require. Some cannot afford to throw all of their eggs in one basket. To them, more smaller jobs is better than one large job. If you pass on all the other jobs to get this one big one and it goes south, you're screwed and have no work.

Turner Construction has been pegged as project managers on it. I'm sure they will be sending several people from their New York or Atlanta office to help out the local Turner Universal office. The next major position is who is going to do the concrete work. I've heard two names thrown out so far, but not much interest from local players. They would just as soon stay out of it, is what I've been told.

Right. Plans needed to come out for budget numbers. Now they have to go back and fill in the blanks.

I was expecting this since the first set wasn't 100% complete. Several structural items weren't fully designed yet. I would expect 4 or 5 more revised sets before an "Issued for Construction" set comes out.

**** DELAY **** I know Metro is going to jump all over this with an "I told you so". New drawings are coming out in January and the project will be re-bid in February. Contracts were to be awarded next week, but it looks like that won't happen now until late 02/07 or 03/07.

Agreed. Bids are due at the end of this month. I would assume since this is the first true bid on the project that it will be over budget. A second round of plans will come out, probably December/January, and then revised bids will be due. You might see a photo-op ribbon cutting for the project in January, but I wouldn't expect excavation until closer to March.

From what I understand, there will be a pendulum/counterbalance in the spire to reduce much of the sway in the building. Maybe this is a partial reason for the spire redesign. I would expect many more cosmetic changes to the tower before it's built.

The floor below the pool. The pool level is also the clubhouse level.

Design Development drawings are in the office right now. There will be "empty" floors by design in the tower at three locations near the base, middle and top. These floors will have 36"-54" thick concrete walls going from the center of the building to each corner in diagonal patterns. I've never seen this type of construction, but we've never had a building like this before. To give everyone a little perspective on scale of height, let's use the penthouse on the Viridian as reference for fun. Level 30 Penthouse (Viridian) - 327'-1" Level 29 lowrise condo (Siggy) - 328'-0" Level 70 Penthouse (Siggy) - 829'-10" Top of Spire (Siggy) - 1057'-0" She's a big one! (over 3 Viridians tall!)

I have heard January and also March, so my best guess is sometime between January and March. I forgot that the old Cain-Sloan building went underground a level. That's good for about 20-30 feet which would give the illusion of "wow! They're moving fast on that job".

Solid rock here also.

With 3 months of excavation planned, that's exactly what's going to happen. It seems like every job that comes along now is a design/build project. The Encore is only 2 lifts out of the ground and the contract drawings have had 10 issues of the drawings with 4 major revisions.

Contract drawings are due out this week. Once bids are submitted next month, then we will know if this is a go/no-go deal.

I haven't heard that either. Turner had a meeting at their office and told everyone then that excavation was to begin in March and would take 3 months. Actual construction (concrete work) would begin in June. "Groundbreaking" may still take place in January to ramp up more support for the project.