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  1. 9th August 2021, 10:22 PM #11
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    Quote Originally Posted by windsock View Post
    I wonder how many metres that top platform thing moves horizontally at 800 or so metres on the vertical. Anyone know if there is any horizontal movement up there?
    Quite a lot from memory, but relatively slowly. I had a coffee with one of the structural guys early on in the design who showed me a model and I recall thinking "You'll never get me up there".
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  2. 10th August 2021, 11:59 AM #12
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    This is how they did it.

    We're on top of the world | Behind the scenes | Emirates Airline - YouTube
    I’m pretty sure the dinosaurs died out when they stopped gathering food and started having meetings to discuss gathering food

    A bookshop is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking
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    You guys been up the Gloucester Tree in WA? I started up that one in what was a little bit of wind at ground level. As I got to the top she was moving over a metre each way into the wind and back with gusts. Had to change the undies when I got down!

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  4. 10th August 2021, 08:55 PM #14
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    I spent a bit of my time installing lifts.

    When we were building 120 Collins in Melbourne we tried a laser to plumb the shafts but couldn't use it due to the sway of the building especially when a crane took a load.

    We went back to conventional plumb lines and learnt very quickly to respect the plumb line integrity . If you broke a line it was a nightmare of tangled wire depending where on the 65 floors you were located.

    It was also pretty scary looking down the full length of the shaft. I respected heights shall I say.
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