One World Trade Center is located in Manhattan and stands at 1,776 feet, making it the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere. It has 102 stories and over 3 million square feet of Class A office space. The building features a massive steel and concrete structure that provides column-free floor plates and high ceilings. It also has state-of-the-art safety features like thick concrete walls, multiple emergency exits, and air filtration systems.

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3. • It provides quick and easy access to the
region’s three international airports, as well as
a full range of rail services.
Location
• offers unsurpassed downtown access,
connecting to eleven subway lines,
PATH(rapid transit railroad service) and
Hudson River ferries.
• The One World Trade Center lobby
features street-level entrances on three
sides

5. Project Facts
• The tallest skyscraper in the Western
Hemisphere stands at a symbolic 1,776
feet.
• Number of Stories : 102

6. • Project Completion : 2014
• Site Area : 75,000 sq.ft
• Project Area : 35,00,000 sq.ft
• 3 million square feet Class (A) office space.
• There are 70 elevators in the building
• Broadcast and antenna facilities
• Below ground: - tenant parking & storage,
shopping - access to the PATH, subway trains
• Construction Material : Concrete, Steel

7. DESIGN
• 20m high public lobby
• Topped by series of mechanical floor
• Mechanical and observatory floor
at roof top
• Glass parapet extending to 417m
• Shrouded antenna structure supported by
cable
• Fulturn central entrance
• Above the mast will have intense beam
of light that will be lit at night and will
likely be visible over 1,000 feet

8. Structural design
• The tower’s structure is designed
around a massive, redundant steel
moment frame consisting of beams and
columns connected by a combination of
welding and bolting.
• Paired with a massive concrete core
shear wall, the moment frame lends
substantial rigidity and redundancy to
the overall building structure while
providing column free interior spans
Column Free interior
Structural Steel Moment frame at the
tower perimeter

9. Features
Building
Double-height sky lobby for access to
upper floors
Column-free floor plates
54 high-speed elevators
Minimum finished ceiling heights of 9 ft
10 escalators
and limited core penetrations
Safety
3 feet thick reinforced concrete walls
emergency stairs
biological and chemical filters throughout
its ventilation system
Alternative structural load paths