Industry Case Study: West Sixth Towers

Tuesday, March 29th, 2022 by Miguel Ramirez

Challenge

Situation: West Sixth, on the corner of Mill and 6th avenue in downtown Tempe had sat unoccupied and only 80% finished for a significant amount of time while awaiting new ownership. As new ownership came in, Arizona Repair Ma-sons was contracted to provide various types of concrete repair.

Challenges: Arizona Repair Masons were contracted in June and due to owners wanting to be open in time for the fall semester at ASU, tower 1 had to be completed by the first week in August. While two and a half months seems like a long schedule, massive amounts of concrete repair were required on all 22 floors of the tower and all floors of the parking garage below.

Solution

Solution: Arizona Repair Masons ran three crews daily at West Sixth to prepare tower 1 in time. AZRM performed many different types of concrete repairs including smoothing of structural columns, chipping deteriorated concrete and patching back, placing elevator pour back strips and patching and capping of post-tensioned cables.

Conclusion: Arizona Repair Masons impressed Summit Builders with their performance, knowledge, and workmanship in tower 1. Summit contracted with AZRM for tower 2 as well, keeping AZRM on-site into October.

Project Summary

Engineer: Michael R. Simpson

As depicted in this picture, you can see the magnitude and the dimensions of the buildings, so the precision and the calculations made needed to be very accurate and exact.

As shown in this picture, the wall got repaired and is stronger than ever before, providing the right support.

Foundation stability is very important when it comes to a building of this magnitude because if there is an earthquake or even a misfunction in the elevator, a strong and stable foundation places a huge role.

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