Bishopsgate Tower - "The Pinnacle" | City of London | 288m | 63 fl | On Hold

[Schmeek]

So, slightly off topic... sorry if we're covering old ground here (pardon the pun), but who will win the race to be the next tower to hit 150m? In London I presume it will be St. Georges Tower, which is travelling upwards at a rate of knots, but if there's a race in the City, who will it be? I haven't had time to check the schedules for each construction.
I take it Pinnacle has a head start, with a small core in place, but being the bigger building it might take longer to construct. Walkie-talkie is probably next best placed, with Leadenhall lagging slightly.
Is this about right? Shall we have a poll?

[nauticat]

Originally Posted by ismail

The lift is to access the slip form, if look up at the slip form, you'll see that it tapers out at the top, so although it looks a distance away from the core where it is at the moment, by the time it reaches the slip form, it will be almost attached to it.

Slip form? from my limited knowlege of building techniques (built up entirely on this forum lol) I thought this was a jump form core build?

[scalatrava89]

Originally Posted by nauticat

Slip form? from my limited knowlege of building techniques (built up entirely on this forum lol) I thought this was a jump form core build?

Yes it's a Jump Form. When in full swing, it should rise one floor per week.

[Turbosnail]

I've been in Melbourne 3 months now, it's twatting down with rain here, baking hot in London and I left before I got to see this thing rise in the flesh. I'm looking to Lumberjack etc for comfort.. very exciting times

[bestbud]

Originally Posted by Schmeek

So, slightly off topic... sorry if we're covering old ground here (pardon the pun), but who will win the race to be the next tower to hit 150m? if there's a race in the City, who will it be?

I'm not totally clued up on the programmes either but I can't see past the Walkie Talkie being first to reach 150m.

[lumberjack]

Concrete anyone

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[tomb123]

That's what we like to see.

[BodgeJob1]

Originally Posted by bestbud

I'm not totally clued up on the programmes either but I can't see past the Walkie Talkie being first to reach 150m.

..actually, i'd go with 122 Ledenhall getting to the 150m milestone 1st, given that it has no concrete core...alot quicker to go vertical with just steel...you only have to look at how quickly The Broadgate Tower (165m) started to shoot up once construction was in full swing.

[lumberjack]

Ok here's a flood of photos.... playing around with my new camera at lunch - has a great ZooooooM. Lots of stuff being delivered and concrete truck turned up...

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[Hull]

Concrete doesn't look like it's for the core but its a start, my guess is the pump will be delivered tomorrow and concrete core pumping will commence Monday

[ismail]

Originally Posted by nauticat

Slip form? from my limited knowlege of building techniques (built up entirely on this forum lol) I thought this was a jump form core build?

Yep it is a jump form, got a bit mixed up..You could say it was a bit of Slip on the type of form!!!!!

[ismail]

Wow concrete at both sites, the competition start.......let the games begin

[Cat man do]

Originally Posted by lumberjack

Concrete anyone

<pendant> Surely its ... 'Cement anyone', you put bread in a toaster </pendant>

[gegloma01]

At this rate, the Pinnacle will be completed in 2017.

[LiverpoolLad]

Originally Posted by Cat man do

Sheesh, that's the trouble with building a skyscraper in London these days, just so impossible to get anything done with all those other skyscraper constructions getting in the way.

London is very hard for construction, just to do some simple road works you need a letter from god

[london_marcus]

Originally Posted by gegloma01

At this rate, the Pinnacle will be completed in 2017.

keeping things positive......bring on 2017!!!!

[JLAG]

Thanks for the update lumberjack. Now we are talking, a concrete truck at the site . And 3 towers in the city that will go up at the same time.Wonderful.

[The Shard Baby]

Originally Posted by gegloma01

At this rate, the Pinnacle will be completed in 2017.

No it won't, the external envelop will be covering the whole building before 2014, once the construction gets into full motion the vertical construction would be speeding away on all factors to the building.

[Supertall Robbo]

Wow loving the frequency of updates going on, particularly from lumberjack!

[Whittonstall]

Originally Posted by Cat man do

<pendant> Surely its ... 'Cement anyone', you put bread in a toaster </pendant>

Probably is concrete.