Back in March 2010, Tilcon began shipping concrete stone from Clinton Point Quarry, destined for the World Trade Center site in lower Manhattan.
In total Tilcon will provide 200,000 tons of Clinton Point # 57 stone to our customer Eastern Concrete Materials, Inc, part of the US Concrete group. The stone will be moved by barge to our Flushing terminal and subsequently trucked to Eastern Concrete’s Red Hook facility.
Eastern Concrete began working at the World Trade Center site on March 15, 2010 and the company expects to be involved at the site for at least two years. The concrete for the World Trade Center project will be produced at its Red Hook plant, although it has another facility close by in Jersey City, which can serve as a backup if required.
Initially the concrete will be used in the construction of One World Trade Center, formerly known as the Freedom Tower. Eastern Concrete is working with concrete contractor Collavino Construction Company from Canada. The concrete is being used in the superstructure of the building, including the high-strength core and the floors. The concrete for the core of the building is high strength concrete. 14,000 psi, 12,000 psi and 10,000 psi mix designs are being used. A lower strength concrete is being used for the building’s floors.
Major pours take place approximately twice a week, but concrete is delivered to the site every day. At the time of writing there were 200,000 cubic yards left to be supplied to the job.
World Trade Center Site
The much-anticipated construction at the World Trade Center site is well underway. The site is owned by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and the development rights are owned by Larry Silverstein.
Altogether, five buildings are planned, together with a National September 11 Memorial and Museum, a Frank Gehry designed Arts Center and Transportation Hub. All of the buildings will surround the National September 11 Memorial and Museum.
The 1776 ft building One World Trade Center, formerly known as the Freedom Tower, was designed by architect Daniel Libeskind in collaboration with David Childs. Studio Daniel Libeskind won the 2003 competition to be the master plan architect for the redevelopment of the World Trade Center site. The building itself will rise to 1362 ft, the height of the original World Trade Center south tower, and its antenna will rise to the total symbolic height of 1,776 feet - 1776 representing the year in which the US Declaration of Independence was signed.
Once completed, it will be among the 15 tallest structures in the US and will be situated in the North West corner of the 16 acre site of the former World Trade Center, bounded by Vesey, Washington, West and Fulton Streets.
British architect Norman Foster designed Tower Two, also known as 200 Greenwich Street and Tower Three, or 175 Greenwich Street which will stand across Greenwich Street from the Memorial’s two reflecting pools. Maki and Associates designed Tower Four, or 150 Greenwich Street and Tower 5 was designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox and will stand where the Deutsche Bank building once stood.
September 11 Memorial
A memorial called ‘Reflecting Absence’ will remember and honor the almost 3000 victims of the September 11 attacks and the 1993 World Trade Center bombings. The memorial will consist of a field of trees, interrupted by the footprints of the twin towers. Pools of water will fill the footprints, underneath which will sit a memorial space, whose walls will bear the names of the victims. Construction is due to be completed by September 11, 2011. For more information about the Memorial please visit www.national911memorial.org.
A long-standing relationship
It seems fitting that Tilcon should partner with such an important and long-standing customer as Eastern Concrete to work on this iconic project. Our companies share a long and close relationship which spans over 75 years. Says Bob Pecorella, Tilcon VP Sales ‘Eastern Concrete and Tilcon have always been a natural fit as we both share the desire for high profile projects that require high quality materials and unprecedented levels of service, both of which set us apart from most other suppliers.’
Known for many years as Raia Industries, the company has been purchasing stone from quarries that are now part of the Tilcon group since the 1930s. Raia was acquired by Blue Circle in 1986 and joined US Concrete in 2001.
Eastern Concrete operates three ready mix plants co-located at our Riverdale, West Nyack and Mt Hope sites. Additionally, the company owns the Hamburg quarry site on which Tilcon’s Hamburg asphalt plant stands.
US Concrete moved into the New York City market at the end of 2008 and by end of 2009 had five sites a ready mix plants at Mt Vernon and Red Hook, a clean material recycle center at Pebble Lane in Maspeth, Queens, and two plants under the name New York City materials at Staten Island and East Brooklyn. Eastern Concrete currently has 80 employees and is the first public company to operate ready mix plants in the NYC area.
