Talk:Bank of America Tower (Manhattan)

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Merging

The introduction, "ecotower.jpg", "One Bryant Park constructio.jpg", and The Durst Organization link were merged from Bank of America Tower at One Bryant Park, which now redirects here. Jaxl 15:01, 14 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Naming

Shouldn't the article in some way reflect the other popular name for the building, One Bryant Park? Danlurie 02:39, 16 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

concrete mix

"The construction of the Bank Of America tower was done by using concrete manufactured with the byproduct of blast furnaces. The mixture used in the tower concrete are 55% cement and 45% blast furnace slag. In fact the mixture of cement and slag cement makes the concrete stronger. Use of byproduct slag cement also causes less damage to the planet by reducing the carbon dioxide produced by normal cement manufacturing, where each ton of cement produced yields a ton of CO2 into the atmosphere."

Im curious why this is notable. Slag Concrete and Flyash Concrete are incredibly common. Hell, my research in concrete optimization for roads uses those two products. I also dont like the mixture being 55 percent cement and 45 percent slag. What this means is that we have a 100 percent paste concrete. No aggragrate???? thats amazingly expensive. also those statistics are meaningless if you dont know the water cement ration. I also dont like the statement of:

"where each ton of cement produced yields a ton of CO2 into the atmosphere."

Is this during the manufacturing of cement?? or during setting? Because if its during setting it makes no sense strickly on a mass balance scale. and if its during manufacturing is your stat taking into account the CO2 released during steel manufacturing(which is where a large portion of slag comes from)?

Barcode 13:09, 14 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I added "citation needed" to this and several other questionable statements. If reliable sources are not provided soon, these statements should be removed per Wikipedia's verifiability policy.
--JKeene 23:58, 19 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Second Tallest?

The lead asserts that it's officially the second tallest building, while the section on height asserts that it's debatable--and that an official ruling hasn't been issued. Does anyone know the story on this? Nareek (talk) 11:28, 30 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Mix-and Match of Completion

This artivle contradicts itself. In the Infobox it says it is complete, but the introductory paragraph says it is under construction. It is really under construction, and does anyone else spot any other points that it says it is built? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sneaky Oviraptor18 (talk • contribs) 19:15, 6 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Still under construction???

Is it possible that the tower is still under consruction as of August 2009? The building has been topped out in December 2007. Can the construction works take a so long time? The Burj Dubai in Dubai is ready for occupancy in September 2009, and it has been topped in January 2009. In comparison, the Burj Dubai is taller than two Bank of America Towers. The building should be finsihed since winter 2008/9. --Jerchel (talk) 12:03, 22 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Well, the CTBUH updated their list recently, and they say that it is now complete. They typically don't label buildings as "completed" until they are at least partially occupied.

Link: http://www.ctbuh.org/Portals/0/Tallest/CTBUH_Tallest100.pdf