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You can imagine my distress. Just hours after penning a post about the number of permitted tower cranes that had yet to be planted around Chicago, I wandered past 151 North Franklin and couldn’t believe I had left it out. I got home and leafed through the permits, and lo and behold…there wasn’t one.
How could that be? The CNA Center is going to be 35 stories high! How can that be accomplished without a tower crane?
The answer? A clip-on. Like the neckties we wore as kids. Sort of. I’m told by folks at Lendlease, the general contractor for this Loop office tower, that the crane to be used will attach to the building itself, and move higher with the tower as construction progresses. Which sounds cool enough to be an adequate substitute for the real thing.
https://twitter.com/BuildUpChicago/status/753968058515927045
Twitter. It’s how I keep myself amused.
In the meantime, Lendlease is doing all kinds of cool stuff at 151 North Franklin Street. As you’ll see by scrolling through the following photo gallery:
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- Massive steel beams went up on Saturday.
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- This was Saturday, as Lendlease erected these two beams.
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- The ground crane in the back corner will suffice until the clip-on comes along.
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- Break time.