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Abatement work has resumed at 130 Liberty Street
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With the stop-work order lifted last month, crews are back at work in the 130 Liberty Street tower with expanded health and safety precautions in place. An update on those measures was delivered to Community Board 1’s WTC Redevelopment Committee on June 9th.
Ray Master, the project’s health and safety director for contractor Bovis Lend Lease, reported that workers inside the building are implementing final safety plans before abatement resumes. Their preparations ensure safety both inside the building and for the surrounding community, include removing and replacing combustible materials, rebuilding safety structures, centralizing the negative-air-pressure controls, and improving emergency responder’s access.
Workers have been retrained on emergency procedures, he said, and attend regular meetings for ongoing health and safety updates and improvements. Crews also are trained to work safely in extreme weather conditions, such as during the recent heat wave.
Master also said that the building’s tower crane undergoes regular maintenance whether or not it is used. However, Bovis expects to restart the crane in the coming weeks to remove debris on the building’s roof as part of abatement preparations.
As the project’s lead contractor, Masters said Bovis is responsible for first-responder and community notification, and has a text-message outreach system in place that it coordinates with the city’s Office of Emergency Management.
Abatement work has resumed at 130 Liberty Street, and plans are to fully decontaminate the building before deconstruction restarts.
Abatement and deconstruction work at the former 40-story Deutsche Bank tower were halted last August after a fire occurred on floors 13 through 18. The building has been deconstructed to the 26th floor.
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