Mutual of Omaha Tower (14th & Farnam)

[GenX]

Are those timelapse videos correct for anyone else?

I did notice when I played the videos, there was other content after the time lapses.

Yeah, I was not ok with it auto-playing that. I appreciate the time-lapses, but let's please avoid sites that add that type of forced unnecessary content. I just put those videos behind spoilers because they autostart when you scroll over them and then play unrelated stuff afterwords.

Yeah… took me a minute to realize where the sound was coming from…

[OmahaOmaha]

Breaking News… Construction on Mutual of Omaha Tower stopped this morning after large cracks were discovered near the base of the tower core. According to structural engineers, a large portion of the core may need to be demolished and rebuilt, delaying the tower completion date by over a year. A news conference will be held later today, April 1st.

[BRoss]

Breaking News… Construction on Mutual of Omaha Tower stopped this morning after large cracks were discovered near the base of the tower core. According to structural engineers, a large portion of the core may need to be demolished and rebuilt, delaying the tower completion date by over a year. A news conference will be held later today, April 1st.

Oh haha

[djc311]

Breaking News… Construction on Mutual of Omaha Tower stopped this morning after large cracks were discovered near the base of the tower core. According to structural engineers, a large portion of the core may need to be demolished and rebuilt, delaying the tower completion date by over a year. A news conference will be held later today, April 1st.

Oh haha

I heard they were going to stop using steel and concrete and change over to LEGO bricks due to tariffs (although I believe there are tariffs on LEGO imports, they're not as significant as steel).

Also, they will now scale the floors to minifig size, so they will have over 500 floors of office space.

[GenX]

Breaking News… Construction on Mutual of Omaha Tower stopped this morning after large cracks were discovered near the base of the tower core. According to structural engineers, a large portion of the core may need to be demolished and rebuilt, delaying the tower completion date by over a year. A news conference will be held later today, April 1st.

Oh haha

I heard they were going to stop using steel and concrete and change over to LEGO bricks due to tariffs (although I believe there are tariffs on LEGO imports, they're not as significant as steel).

Also, they will now scale the floors to minifig size, so they will have over 500 floors of office space.

Just think how many LEGO minifig-scale cars can fit in the parking garage now...

[Garrett]

Breaking News… Construction on Mutual of Omaha Tower stopped this morning after large cracks were discovered near the base of the tower core. According to structural engineers, a large portion of the core may need to be demolished and rebuilt, delaying the tower completion date by over a year. A news conference will be held later today, April 1st.

Oh haha

I heard they were going to stop using steel and concrete and change over to LEGO bricks due to tariffs (although I believe there are tariffs on LEGO imports, they're not as significant as steel).

Also, they will now scale the floors to minifig size, so they will have over 500 floors of office space.

Using LEGO while we're actively antagonizing Denmark, the makers of LEGO? Could be a recipe for disaster!

[djc311]

Breaking News… Construction on Mutual of Omaha Tower stopped this morning after large cracks were discovered near the base of the tower core. According to structural engineers, a large portion of the core may need to be demolished and rebuilt, delaying the tower completion date by over a year. A news conference will be held later today, April 1st.

Oh haha

I heard they were going to stop using steel and concrete and change over to LEGO bricks due to tariffs (although I believe there are tariffs on LEGO imports, they're not as significant as steel).

Also, they will now scale the floors to minifig size, so they will have over 500 floors of office space.

Using LEGO while we're actively antagonizing Denmark, the makers of LEGO? Could be a recipe for disaster!

I know, right?! I think it's very disrespectful, while at the same time I'm interested to see how it comes together. Hopefully they use enough Krackle.

[Linkin5]

The preferred nomenclature is Legos.

[djc311]

The preferred nomenclature is Legos.

Not this again...

[skinzfan23]

[thenewguy]

Breaking News… Construction on Mutual of Omaha Tower stopped this morning after large cracks were discovered near the base of the tower core. According to structural engineers, a large portion of the core may need to be demolished and rebuilt, delaying the tower completion date by over a year. A news conference will be held later today, April 1st.

Oh haha

I heard they were going to stop using steel and concrete and change over to LEGO bricks due to tariffs (although I believe there are tariffs on LEGO imports, they're not as significant as steel).

Also, they will now scale the floors to minifig size, so they will have over 500 floors of office space.

Using LEGO while we're actively antagonizing Denmark, the makers of LEGO? Could be a recipe for disaster!

I know, right?! I think it's very disrespectful, while at the same time I'm interested to see how it comes together. Hopefully they use enough Krackle.

Kragle ;)

[Omaha Cowboy]

Breaking News… Construction on Mutual of Omaha Tower stopped this morning after large cracks were discovered near the base of the tower core. According to structural engineers, a large portion of the core may need to be demolished and rebuilt, delaying the tower completion date by over a year. A news conference will be held later today, April 1st.

Oh haha

April 1st has become my least favorite day on this forum…

Ciao..LiO…Peace

[Big E]

The preferred nomenclature is Legos.

Not this again...

JUST BE STUPID THEN

I'm kidding. Kind of.

[skinzfan23]

3rd level of steel going up on the south side:

[Brad]

Cool, not only the 3rd floor of steel, but you can see all the clips that hold on the glass, left of the tower crane too.

[skinzfan23]

Cool, not only the 3rd floor of steel, but you can see all the clips that hold on the glass, left of the tower crane too.

Didn’t even notice that, nice catch.

[Stargazer]

Geez, the elevator shaft almost looks like it occupies as much space as the floors around it.

[GenX]

Cool, not only the 3rd floor of steel, but you can see all the clips that hold on the glass, left of the tower crane too.

Darn it! Beat me to it!

[Toto]

So cool so see this building change so fast.

[Nebraska>Iowa]

When are they raising the core? It's been a while.

It seems that around the time they started erecting steel, the core slowed way down.

As far as that goes, if the core goes up another floor the crane should follow soon thereafter - I'd think.

[skinzfan23]

When are they raising the core? It's been a while.

It seems that around the time they started erecting steel, the core slowed way down.

As far as that goes, if the core goes up another floor the crane should follow soon thereafter - I'd think.

I wondering the same thing. Thinking it should be soon. Its been 3 weeks tomorrow. Usually closer to 14-18 days.

[GenX]

When are they raising the core? It's been a while.

It seems that around the time they started erecting steel, the core slowed way down.

As far as that goes, if the core goes up another floor the crane should follow soon thereafter - I'd think.

I wondering the same thing. Thinking it should be soon. Its been 3 weeks tomorrow. Usually closer to 14-18 days.

I’m sure the core reconfiguration added at least a week, if not more. They may also be waiting on tower crane sections. Also, isn’t the blue crane set to come down soon?

[skinzfan23]

I thought they mentioned the blue tower crane was coming down this spring.

I don’t think they would be waiting on any crane sections for the yellow crane because it still has quite a ways before it needs to be raised.

[Nebraska>Iowa]

When are they raising the core? It's been a while.

It seems that around the time they started erecting steel, the core slowed way down.

As far as that goes, if the core goes up another floor the crane should follow soon thereafter - I'd think.

I wondering the same thing. Thinking it should be soon. Its been 3 weeks tomorrow. Usually closer to 14-18 days.

I’m sure the core reconfiguration added at least a week, if not more. They may also be waiting on tower crane sections. Also, isn’t the blue crane set to come down soon?

I think you're probably right.

Although I'd think they're highly organized down to the day. Therefore, I cannot imagine the crane sections would be something to wait on. Or maybe I should say, the sections should be somewhere within the Omaha area vs. trucking them in from out of state.

[enthusiestomaha1433]

Nerves of steel!

[TDhusker]

Looks like they’ll be raising the crane at level 30. Supports are being put in place on core at lvl 30

[GenX]

When are they raising the core? It's been a while.

It seems that around the time they started erecting steel, the core slowed way down.

As far as that goes, if the core goes up another floor the crane should follow soon thereafter - I'd think.

I wondering the same thing. Thinking it should be soon. Its been 3 weeks tomorrow. Usually closer to 14-18 days.

I’m sure the core reconfiguration added at least a week, if not more. They may also be waiting on tower crane sections. Also, isn’t the blue crane set to come down soon?

I think you're probably right.

Although I'd think they're highly organized down to the day. Therefore, I cannot imagine the crane sections would be something to wait on. Or maybe I should say, the sections should be somewhere within the Omaha area vs. trucking them in from out of state.

We’ve had some crazy weather the past couple of weeks which could easily delay something like that. Anyway, I’m purely speculating here.

[skinzfan23]

Looks like they’ll be raising the crane at level 30. Supports are being put in place on core at lvl 30

Sounds about right, before it has been every 5-6 floors and the last one is on floor 25.

[Renovator2559]

Looks like they’ll be raising the crane at level 30. Supports are being put in place on core at lvl 30

Nice! Look at that beautiful tower crane grow.

[Linkin5]

Geez, the elevator shaft almost looks like it occupies as much space as the floors around it.

It really is jarring how small the floor plate looks with the steel going in.

[skinzfan23]

Geez, the elevator shaft almost looks like it occupies as much space as the floors around it.

It really is jarring how small the floor plate looks with the steel going in.

I think the garage and elevators make it look small, but I would guess that it is going to be at least the same as the FNBO tower if not larger.

[Linkin5]

Geez, the elevator shaft almost looks like it occupies as much space as the floors around it.

It really is jarring how small the floor plate looks with the steel going in.

I think the garage and elevators make it look small, but I would guess that it is going to be at least the same as the FNBO tower if not larger.

Good point the garage is not helping matters, the core does look massive, though.

[Busguy2010]

Geez, the elevator shaft almost looks like it occupies as much space as the floors around it.

It really is jarring how small the floor plate looks with the steel going in.

Im glad I'm not the only one kinda puzzled by that. They know what they're doing, but I was asking myself "where's the functional space?".

[Louie]

Typically, all the 'repeatables' will be in that core. So outside of just the elvators, all of your supply closets, utilities, bathrooms, etc will be housed in that concrete block. That being said, it is a big % of the floorplate.

[Garrett]

So I did some back of the napkin math based on the floorplates from the Planning Board submissions (https://planning.cityofomaha.org/images ... rch/12.pdf).

It looks like the square footage of the floorplate for the lowrise section of the tower will be about 19,000 sqft, with around 4,000 of that taken up by the core, leaving 15,000 sqft of usable space for office. The highrise portion will have about 16,000 square ft total, with a 3,000 sqft core for about 13,000 sqft of usable space. I didn't account for the cutouts so I'm definitely overestimating a bit.

While I couldn't find floorplates for First National, Woodmen's tower portion has floorplates of a little more than 14,000 sqft without deducting for the core.

[Brad]

all of your supply closets, utilities, bathrooms, etc will be housed in that concrete block.

That's what I have been assuming, everything but the office space will be in the core.

[Busguy2010]

Right, right. By functionality, I mean the process of doing business, what makes them their money. It's kinda surprising there doesn't seem to be so much percentage of the square footage for that purpose.

[Louie]

Yeah, there isn't floorspace for a larger (like real big) conference room for an all hands type of meeting. Though, it may just be something that isn't part of their needs/process.

[Brad]

Couple from this weekend.

1. First up, the 72 and Center View:

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2. More glass going up left of the tower crane.

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[Omaha Cowboy]

Excellent pics Brad …

Ciao..LiO…Peace