Current building 4 World Trade Center

1 current building

1.1 construction

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1.2 layout , occupancy

current building
construction

groundbreaking took place in 2008. building reached street level in november 2009. safety cocoon installed december 2010. first glass installed may 2011. in november 2010, 3 purecell fuel cells delivered @ world trade center site provide 30% of tower’s power. structural engineer building leslie e. robertson associates, new york city.

on february 16, 2012, 1 of building s construction crane cables snapped while lifting steel, causing steel fall 40 stories building, landing on flat bed truck. no injuries reported. construction on building resumed after accident.

on june 25, 2012, steel topped out @ floor 72. structural steel , concrete completed june 1, 2013, followed rapidly removal of construction fencing in september 2013 , building s opening in november 13, 2013. cost of construction of 4 world trade center 1.67 billion usd, funded insurance funds , liberty bonds. first tenants move in 2 government agencies, , of july 2015, building 62% leased.

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layout , occupancy

4 world trade center reflecting water of hudson river, viewed 1 world observatory in 2017

the above-ground portion of building dedicated retail use (which consists of ground floor, 3 floors above ground floor 2 floors below ground), accommodate offices using 2 distinct floor shapes. floors 7 through 46, typical floor space 36,350 square feet (3,376 square meters) in shape of parallelogram (which designed echo configuration of site). floors 48 through 63 floor space 28,000 sq ft (2,600 square meters) in shape of trapezoid, shaped opens toward tip of manhattan island , triangulated face 1 world trade center. tower includes 5 levels of mechanical floors. new york power authority selected utc power provide 12 purecell model 400 fuel cells used provide electricity, water , heat. according developer, systems combined rank 1 of largest installations of fuel cells in world. upper floors of building have no interior columns.

the port authority of new york , new jersey (panynj) plans lease approximately 600,766 square feet (55,813.0 m) in 4 world trade center new headquarters. panynj formerly headquartered in 1 world trade center before destroyed. port authority signed 30-year lease. lower levels of building used retail businesses, including eataly, , connects via underground retail , transportation concourse path station. city of new york plans lease 581,642 square feet (54,036.3 m) of space, not in use yet, in completed building. february 2017 announcement spotify lease floors 62 through 72 united states headquarters brought 4 world trade center full occupancy.

the building s elevators supplied schindler, , second fastest in north america @ 9 m/s (1800 fpm).