If I have this right, the green supports go up, then wood, then they pour concrete in?
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Are these the supports for the new tower or Wabash Street? I took a look at these over the weekend and I couldn’t quite figure out which they were.
Hehehe, I like the first picture, with the guys climbing up the green supports. It looks like they’re racing.
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i cant figure it out either, chris. i thought they were for the street, but there are different tiers o fconstruction now and it seems like part of the street is missing or something so i dont know what their doing
You’re kinda right. The “green supports” are reinforcing steel for concrete columns and the “wood” is the form for the concrete. The trellis-like structure in the first photo is the vertical and horizontal reinforcing for a wall.
What Richard said. The green steel pieces *stay* in the concrete after it has been poured. They are what makes it reinforced concrete supports.
Completely unrelated comment to this post. I stumbled over your blog during an image search for something in the Seattle area. I’m a brit relocated here for 3 months on business and I’ve been looking for things to do. Just wanted to say a big THANK YOU! Your fantastic pictures from places in the Pacific Northwest National park lead to me driving for four hours on Sunday up to Rialto Beach, to some of the most amazing scenery I’ve experienced in my life.
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Hmmm…these pics look familiar (if it was the same day I saw you taking them).
actually, i just took these 2 photos this week. the photo i took when i saw you was this one of the fish hotel
yep the green supports are known as rebar- just in case you want to talk shop with the construction workers- “hey nice rebar”
And they will probably reuse the forms (wooden deals) to help form the walls and supports for each floor of the tower.