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Neelesh Sharma
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Sears Tower
• Location: Chicago, Illinois
• Project Completion: 1974
• Site Area: 3 acres
• Project Area: 4,565,844 ft2 (105 acres)
• Number of Stories: 110
• Building Height: 1,450 ft (442 m)
• Market: Commercial + Office
• Due to the drop offs, the gravity loading on the system is not evenly distributed along the height
of the building.
• These trusses take the gravity loads from above and redistribute them evenly onto the tubes
below.
• This is particularly important for the uppermost section of the tower, due to its asymmetry about
the central axis of the building.
• The presence of the belt trusses help to mitigate these effects of differential settlement, which
cause the building to tilt.
Spandrel beams are load-bearing structural members around the perimeter of a floor of a building. Not only may they support loads from the roof and other floors, they may also help support a building's walls. For
example, walls expected to experience significant forces from wind may be anchored to these beams to better distribute the load.
Interior Beams and Columns
Construction
X bracing of the columns at the mechanical
floors
29th – 32nd
64th – 65th
88th – 89th
104th – 108th
Vertical Circulation
• The Sears Tower’s 104-cab elevator system divides the building into three separate zones, with
sky lobbies in between at levels 33-34 and 66-67.
• 28 double decker express shuttle shuttle elevators serve the sky lobbies
• 63 single deck elevators for intra-zonal travel
• 6 freight elevators
• Two express elevators that take 61 seconds to reach the 1353 foot high skydeck at level 103
travelling at 1600 feet per minute.
1,730 feet (527.3 m)