Duke Energy Plaza Headquarters | 40 Story formerly Charlotte Metro Tower

[Norm2]

2 minutes ago, Madison Parkitect said:

Digging has really been progressing the past couple days. It feels like it's taking forever though. Maybe due to the blasting?

 

Yup, the blasting definitely makes it take a while. I forget how long it took to blast the hole for DEC2. It felt like 2 years though.

[Guest]

28 minutes ago, Madison Parkitect said:

Digging has really been progressing the past couple days. It feels like it's taking forever though. Maybe due to the blasting?

 

Its all bedrock there, hence the lack of more than one floor of subterranean anything.

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[Madison Parkitect]

Did they have to blast through bedrock for the museum parking and the parking under The Green? Or is this site the only unlucky one that's all bedrock?

[SydneyCarton]

This is going to be really spectacular.

[NOLA2CLT]

How far down are they digging?  

[nakers2]

It's the biggest tower we've seen in a while. I know with all the supertall towers going up globally this seems "easy" but 40 floors is still a pretty challenging build, and they're using the entire site, hard to go back and correct errors or adjust. 

[Guest]

Did they have to blast through bedrock for the museum parking and the parking under The Green? Or is this site the only unlucky one that's all bedrock?

It’s all bedrock. I think someone might have just lost their shirt over the 2100 space deck under Duke Energy 1, hence why it’s not being buried this time.


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It’s a me building, developer and architect as DEC 1, so there’s some reason they aren’t repeating the buried parking, which is minimum 60% more to do.


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[NOLA2CLT]

I think Duke is just saying its going to be 41 stories, I bet they are going to surprise us all, and end up building a 1000 footer...i mean whats another ~300 feet, right?

[Hushpuppy321]

1 hour ago, NOLA2CLT said:

I think Duke is just saying its going to be 41 stories, I bet they are going to surprise us all, and end up building a 1000 footer...i mean whats another ~300 feet, right?

Man o man I wish!

What I’ve been thinking about realistically though is if we had more proliferation of towers (18 to 30 Story) throughout The N. Tryon St/1st Ward and 2nd Ward Areas then we’d have an even more fantastic Skyline.  Charlotte would be again punching far above its weight.  

Also - proliferation of towers outside of the I-277 Loop will be very nice too.  Hoping something moves on the 3rd/Baldwin Tower as well as the 20/25 Story Metropolitan Tower Site in the next couple years.

[Prodev]

16 hours ago, ricky_davis_fan_21 said:

I think someone might have just lost their shirt over the 2100 space deck under Duke Energy 1, hence why it’s not being buried this time.

The person responsible was actually just given a pillar award (lifetime achievement award) last night. 

[Guest]

1 hour ago, Prodev said:

The person responsible was actually just given a pillar award (lifetime achievement award) last night. 

HAHA. Well he would have gotten a second award, if he had buried the deck again.

[CLT_sc]

On 10/17/2019 at 6:28 PM, ricky_davis_fan_21 said:

It’s all bedrock. I think someone might have just lost their shirt over the 2100 space deck under Duke Energy 1, hence why it’s not being buried this time.


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It’s a me building, developer and architect as DEC 1, so there’s some reason they aren’t repeating the buried parking, which is minimum 60% more to do.


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If they attempted a large underground deck, we would be looking at a 2030 completion date.  This site looks really tough to dig.   

[videtur quam contuor]

Yes, look at the photos above. With the limited current excavation there is exposed rock and they have been blasting to reach this point. Another 50-60 feet, hoo-boy. Still, I wish they had done it. 

[JRNYP2C]

If memory serves correct, that portion of the city was very difficult due to the shallow hard rock.  I can remember when DEC was being built how the blasting took forever due to how far they needed to go.  One blast they set up was double the amount of TNT (or whatever they were using) by accident, and it shook us like crazy in 3WF across the street.  Not sure they will be able (due to costs) go too far deep for a huge garage.

[Guest]

If memory serves correct, that portion of the city was very difficult due to the shallow hard rock.  I can remember when DEC was being built how the blasting took forever due to how far they needed to go.  One blast they set up was double the amount of TNT (or whatever they were using) by accident, and it shook us like crazy in 3WF across the street.  Not sure they will be able (due to costs) go too far deep for a huge garage.

Not to mention the historic church just next door that was damaged during Duke 1 construction.


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[CLT_sc]

On 10/17/2019 at 2:53 PM, ricky_davis_fan_21 said:

Its all bedrock there, hence the lack of more than one floor of subterranean anything.

If we are only going down one floor, are we close to seeing foundation work?

[Guest]

On 10/19/2019 at 11:33 PM, CLT_sc said:

If we are only going down one floor, are we close to seeing foundation work?

Based on what I've seen, they are leveling out one portion that'll include "back of house" operations. the rest will be above ground. So yes, should see foundation work soon.

[15895]

No more renderings on this tower?

[JRNYP2C]

On 10/19/2019 at 10:02 AM, ricky_davis_fan_21 said:

Not to mention the historic church just next door that was damaged during Duke 1 construction.


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That's right.  The fresco behind the altar was destroyed.  I don't think they ever restored or replaced it either.  It has been a long while since I was inside for a service.

[Guest]

That's right.  The fresco behind the altar was destroyed.  I don't think they ever restored or replaced it either.  It has been a long while since I was inside for a service.

Have a original planning sketch (called a cartoon) of part of it in my living room


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[KJHburg]

I found a red version of my parking hut in downtown Fort Worth but could not fit in my suitcase.   I guess I just will buy the one in the QC  and my bid is in for the white one at the Duke Metro tower site.    Keep it safe Childress Klein

[gman430]

11 hours ago, AirNostrumMAD said:

No more renderings on this tower?

 

[CLT_sc]

Here’s a construction question, they are building a square with some steel I-beams close to the  hut.  Size wise, it looks to be similar to a tower crane, is this how the tower crane foundations are built?

not sure what this could be.

[Madison Parkitect]

8 minutes ago, CLT_sc said:

Here’s a construction question, they are building a square with some steel I-beams close to the  hut.  Size wise, it looks to be similar to a tower crane, is this how the tower crane foundations are built?

not sure what this could be.

Maybe a wall mockup? Could also be the museum they're building around the hut so it's memorialized forever.

[Matthew.Brendan]