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Museum Roof Construction Has Ups and Downs, Ins and Outs - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
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In a project chock-full of tricky terrain, the contoured roof profile still stands out as the most convoluted, with the warped skylight over the piazza a close second. Crews erected roof steel in over 20 sequences, in careful coordination with concrete walls and curtain-wall operations, says Matt Rossie, a project director for Webcor Builders, the San Mateo, Calif.-based general contractor for the California Academy of Sciences.

 

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