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The Department of Buildings lifted the stop-work
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Decontamination work resumed Thursday, May , 2008, at the Deutsche Bank building after the Department of Buildings lifted a stop-work order which had been in effect since a fatal fire in August of ’07. The Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, the state agency that owns the building, said 300 workers will begin six day shifts to clean toxic materials from 19 floors of the-now 26 story building. LMDC said the building will be demolished by the end of the year.
The work completed by LVI to date includes the restoration of building enclosures, the construction of two interior fire-rated stairwells for use by first responders, the creation of emergency scaffold egress for the New York City Fire Department, the installation of a remote negative air cutoff switch, the fire-hardening of decontamination chambers and existing vestibules, the building of new fire control systems within the decontamination chambers, the shoring of slabs compromised in the fire and the installation of additional sidewalk sheds.
“For months we have had up to 200 workers in the building making significant progress, but today we have entered a new critical phase that will enable us to bring a hundred additional workers on to the building to finish abating it, taking us a step closer to completing this project and bringing closure to the residents of Lower Manhattan,” stated Avi Schick, Chairman of Lower Manhattan Development Corporation.
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