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Mapping the organization of labor involved in the structural steel of The Empire State Building connects the value of saved time to material sourcing and labor scheduling.
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Original contractor steel orders and schedules organize the coordination of 90,000 tons of iron ore turned to 30,000 steel members mapped over a geographic area of over 1,200 miles, all scheduled to arrive onsite within 72 hours of erection.
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By reformatting and expanding the original steel schedule we reveal a missing layer of coordination, unable to be shown in a written schedule, that establishes a link between material, labor, transportation, and geography, carefully formatted to achieve the rapid 5 month construction of the Empire State Buildings structural steel frame.
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