PA awards steel contract for the WTC Memorial.The World Trade Center Memorial Foundation and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, self-sustaining public corporation established in 1921 by the states of New York and New Jersey to administer the activities of the New York–New Jersey port area, which has a waterfront of c. announced that Owen Steel Company, Inc. was selected to provide both the jumbo and structural steel packages for construction of the World Trade Center For the post-9/11 rebuilding and ongoing construction at the World Trade Center site, see . The construction of the World Trade Center was conceived as an urban renewal project, spearheaded by David Rockefeller, to help revitalize Lower Manhattan. Memorial and Museum. Owen Steel Company will be responsible for all services required for the supply, fabrication fabrication (fab´rikā´sh  n),n the construction or making of a restoration. and erection of the structural steel members, including procurement, engineering, trucking, and delivery. "Owen Steel joins a team of individuals and companies that is committed to this project of profound importance to the City, to the state, and to the country," World Trade Center Memorial Foundation president & CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. Joe Daniels Joe Daniels may refer to:
"This award serves as another clear signal to our contributors, and to the public-at-large, that the historic effort to build the World Trade Center Memorial is making progress. Late this year visitors to the site will begin to see the structure of the Memorial and the Museum take shape as the steel is erected at the site." The jumbo steel represents approximately 20% of the steel members for the project. Only two steel mills in the world produce sections of steel which fit both the jumbo steel size requirements and US specifications. Under the direction of Owen Steel Company, the jumbo steel will be rolled at Arcelor Mittal in Luxembourg and shipped to the United States later this year for fabrication. The remaining 80% of the structural steel will be rolled at domestic mills and delivered to Owen Steel for fabrication. Fabrication will begin later this year, and the first pieces of steel are expected to be erected at the World Trade Center site in December 2007. The erector erector /erec·tor/ (e-rek´ter) [L.] a structure that erects, as a muscle which raises or holds up a part. e·rec·tor n. A muscle that makes a body part erect. Also called arrector. will be Cornell & Company. Owen Steel president David Zalesne said, "We are incredibly proud and grateful that the Memorial Foundation and the Port Authority entrusted this landmark project to Owen Steel. The Memorial will teach and remind the world about defining events in American history and our lifetimes, and it is an honor for our company and our employees to have a role in its construction." Although the majority of the structural steel contract work is exclusively for the Memorial and Museum project, certain elements of the structural steel package are required to support future WTC WTC World Trade Center, see there Site common infrastructure components and facilities. Owen Steel Company, headquartered in Columbia, South Carolina Columbia is the state capital and largest city of South Carolina. As of 2006, estimates for the population of the city proper is 122,819[1]. Columbia is the county seat of Richland County, but a small portion of the city extends into Lexington County. , was founded in 1936, and is among the leading contractors for complex structural steel work, with a long track record of high profile projects in the United States. |
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