ABOUT THE PROJECT

This 12-story residential tower on Fort Lauderdale's Intracoastal Waterway required a sustained vertical construction pace that left little margin for error. The structural system — cast-in-place concrete shear walls and columns supporting post-tension flat plate decks — demanded precise coordination between formwork, rebar, PT strand installation, and concrete placement on a repeating seven-day cycle per floor. Our crew maintained that floor-per-week rhythm from the third level through the roof deck, placing an average of 180 cubic yards per floor pour. Working on a waterfront site added complexity at every stage. The tower crane sat on a mat foundation engineered for the high water table conditions typical along the Intracoastal, and all below-grade work required continuous dewatering. Wind exposure increased with each floor, affecting forming operations and requiring adjusted pour schedules during the afternoon sea breeze that picks up reliably in the warmer months. Our team stacked PT strand and rebar by crane in planned sequences to avoid bottlenecking the hoist schedule shared with MEP and framing trades. Over the 16-month concrete scope, the project consumed approximately 4,200 cubic yards of concrete across foundations, shear walls, columns, and 12 post-tension deck pours. Peak manpower reached 34 field personnel coordinating across two active floors — one stripping and one forming — while maintaining the schedule the GC needed to hit their unit turnover dates.