This project explores an alternative structural design for the Worcester Memorial Clock Tower currently being built at Worcester Psychiatric Hospital in memory of the Worcester Insane Hospital. It is proposed to support the tower using a steel frame and builds the tower envelope with precast tilt-up reinforced concrete panels and embedded stone veneer attached to the steel. A cost estimate and construction schedule for the alternative design is prepared and compared to the existing design.

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Creator

• Pedraza Rayo, Andres

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-032415-174700

Advisor

• Rahbar, Nima
• Salazar, Guillermo F.

Year

• 2015

Sponsor

• Gilbane Building Company

Date created

• 2015-03-24

Location

• Worcester

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Civil Engineering

Rights statement

• In Copyright

License

• All rights reserved