Important Milestone Reached on Seattle Aquarium Ocean Pavilion

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Following two years of planning and construction, the concrete pour of the main tank of the $160-million Ocean Pavilion at Washington’s Seattle Aquarium is complete. The tank is two feet thick at minimum and includes 680 cubic yards of concrete and 355 tons of rebar – four times more rebar than a typical core. Turner Construction Company is the general contractor and LMN Architects is the designer. To view a time lapse video of the pour, click here. In planning for the pour that would essentially have no straight edges, Turner worked with its partners to create 229 panels that … Read more

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Las Vegas Convention Center Expansion Reaches Milestone with Concrete Pour in New Exhibit Hall

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Construction workers, on behalf of the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, commenced the extensive process of pouring 600,000 square feet of concrete flooring in the main exhibit hall—located on a brownfield site once used as a parking lot—in the new West Hall expansion of Nevada’s Las Vegas Convention Center. The facility includes a three-story building with a 150-foot exterior canopy. The interior showcases a 150-foot-high atrium lobby, 75 meeting rooms, 210,000 square feet of concourse pre-function space and outdoor terrace space, along with a food court, kitchens and 240,000 square feet of support spaces. The concrete pour will take … Read more

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Record Set for China’s Largest Concrete Pour during East China Bridge Project

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The concrete pour has been completed during the construction of the pier base of a cable-stayed road-rail bridge in east China, marking the largest continuous concrete pour in China’s bridge construction history. “A total of 1.5-million cubic feet of concrete was poured to build a pier base of the size of 12 basketball courts, with 7,420 tons of steel bars used for the bridge connecting Shanghai and Nantong, Jiangsu Province,” said Liu Ziming, chairperson of the China Railway Major Bridge Engineering Group Corporation. The pour project for the 30-foot-high pier base was divided into two stages, with 11 feet poured … Read more

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W/Element Hotel Development Project One of Largest Concrete Pours in Philadelphia History

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The new dual-branded W Philadelphia and Element Philadelphia Hotel development project in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, will be the latest luxury addition to the city when it is completed in spring 2018. The project, which is estimated to cost $240 million, has approximately 50 carpenters from the Northeast Regional Council of Carpenters building the hotel development’s concrete superstructure. Once complete, there will be 295 rooms in the W Philadelphia hotel and 460 rooms in the Element Philadelphia hotel, as well as an outdoor terrace, outdoor pool, restaurant, banquet facilities, meeting rooms and retail space. “The building will be 52 stories when it’s … Read more

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Construction of New Hospital at Sharp Chula Vista Medical Center Reaches Milestone

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CHULA VISTA, Calif. – Time-lapse video captured nearly 500 cement trucks as they filed onto California’s Sharp Chula Vista Medical Center campus overnight on Saturday, July 29, to pour the base of Sharp HealthCare’s newest hospital, set to open in fall of 2019. Beginning Friday night, 4,700 yards of concrete covering 25,000 square feet had been poured by the end of the 12-hour project that finished on Saturday afternoon. More than 125 construction workers, in addition to the hundreds of ready mix concrete truck drivers, were onsite throughout the night; more than 90 percent of labor for the project is … Read more

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