Today . That i am aware of board of directors in more old business . Seeing none we can move to the executive directors report. Good morning directors and members of the public and just a few announcements before we move on for our construction update for today. It is now displayed to the public at the academy of science and that will run for a number of months. So we would like to thank the California Academy for putting on display the mammoth tooth. And we will be looking for a new home in 2013. And finally on october 17th we had number one of our regularly Schedule Committee meetings to provide a construction update to our neighbors. So everything that moving along well. Now to give our construction update with steve turner. Good morning, directors. Steve, ru, with turner construction, construction oversight. I dont know. Is that up . There it is. Another good month, of work or almost a month and a half since we filled you in on the last period. There were no recordable incidents. W
In a very contemporary fashion. That base, that thicker base is at the lower five floors and the additional metal depth also does a couple of things for us. It helps us mitigate the effect of wind shooting down the exterior of the building. So imaging that this will be a very calm environment when it comes to controlling wind. And it also allows us to address the whole issue of how to avoid birds flying into the structure. That extra depth and and keeping the birds from hitting the building. If you look across first street you see one of the key retail lobbies of the center at the street level. And you see the entrance to parking and you see the relationship between the north edge of the Transit Center and the south edge of the tower. Now, you are standing across mission street. At the corner of mission and freemont. Once again you see the heavier metallic work at the base of the tower and you see the grove of redwoods and the sculpture at the corner and you see how lively and prominen
Extraordinary successful collar collaboration with the San Francisco Planning Department staff and so the design that you are going to be seeing i would characterize as the result of a very, very healthy collaboration with staff and we are quite proud of it. So i just need this here. And this is an image, several images that you are going to be familiar with. It simply puts the towering context and this is clearly one of the most important building complexes and we do see the Transit Center and the tower. And with the center with the roof, top, park and with all of its services and amendies, adjacent to it, is the large tower. The tower of course is a key participant in the financial district of San Francisco and we think that it represents the best thinking in the United States about transitbased development. The transit city tower is on mission street. It is address will be 101 first. And i will show you in a few minutes how that is going to be worked out. It is just north of the Tra
Francisco sfgtv meeting of the San Francisco transbay joint powers occurring november 19, 2012 will begin shortly. Good morning and welcome to the special transbay point Powers Authority board of directors meeting. Today amonday, november 19th, and could we please take roll call . Sure, i will note for the record that director harper is joining as ortizs alternate. And with that, director harper . Here. Lloyd. Here. Metcalf. Here. Kim. Here. You do a quar um. Thank you. Are there any communications today . That i am aware of board of directors in more old business . Seeing none we can move to the executive directors report. Good morning directors and members of the public and just a few announcements before we move on for our construction update for today. It is now displayed to the public at the academy of science and that will run for a number of months. So we would like to thank the California Academy for putting on display the mammoth tooth. And we will be looking for a new home in
Completing. And right on track, is a weekly update here on the production of the shafts and you can see that we were behind the curve in the beginning with just the learning curve of putting the shafts in but we are caught up and projecting a finish on time. But, it is a quality control, remains in effect on the butress there is coring for checking the structure and that is just the general shot of put ng a rebar cage and the awss work. Is the only utility work going on now and as you know we had a little extra activity around halloween and i thought that i would show the photos of the world series, and we are very proud of the giants and some of the players are basically right outside of the job. The budget remains consistent, with the budget, on the construction size. And with the release packages to date. As i said before, a little over 550 craft hours completed and running over 60 percent on the Small Business or local labor, i am sorry the bay area labor. And here is the break dow