Apple’s Campus 2 project continues to make strides with the latest drone video (below) showing the majority of the foundation completed on the massive structure, which Apple CEO Tim Cook has called the ‘Greenest in the World’. You can see the front 2/3rds of the structure is now cemented in with the rear third still dirt and subterranean walls also built along the sides.
The controversial structure which will house 12,000 staff in 2.8M square feet on 176 acres and is estimated to be completed in 2016. Interestingly, even though Apple is covering the construction site with a high green wall, it is updating the 3D flyover of the location in Apple Maps somewhat frequently. The latest looks like it was taken earlier this summer.
You can follow the progress in our Campus 2 story line here.
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As someone that has worked in many large organizations, I do find it very nice to have a large percentage of employees in one area. Travel time, even between buildings, can be a huge time suck and discourages employees from working as a cohesive team. Video conferencing be damned.
Has nobody ever seen a construction site before? They are always surrounded by fences that are covered in thick (usually) green fabric. That is not unique to this project….
Unless that new residential sky scraper they are building down the street from my office in Chicago is really Apple Campus 3.
It’s nice that Apple is putting up a new building and a story of the groundbreaking is fine and I would love to see a story about the finished building and all its high-tech gadgetry, but are all these drones-eye view updates really newsworthy? It’s a new building. It’s round. That’s all we need to know until it’s finished. Am I the only one getting tired of these updates? Maybe I’m just crabby tonight and haven’t noticed.
I find this construction fascinating and would like to see updates like this one as frequently as possible.
It seems pretty clear that the foundations have only just been *started* actually, not finished at all.
Even if you ignore the fact that the concrete hasn’t been laid on about half of it, the walls you can see in the foreground are the earth walls that go *behind* the actual walls, the foundations for the columns haven’t been poured at all, and there is a whole extra “layer” to the floor that hasn’t even been started yet.
Mr. Grey is absolutely correct, the foundation is only beginning to be poured. Much work to go before it is in place. The concrete pad that covers 2/3rds of the sub-level area is just that; a pad which is an underlayment of sorts.
Additionally, to call this “cemented in” is fingernails on a chalkboard to anyone with basic construction knowledge. We don’t walk on cement, nor do we build foundations out of it. Cement is the glue portion of concrete, nothing more, nothing less. This type of statement is akin to saying “look, the Empire State building is all riveted up” or “my house is 2/3rds nailed”. It has no practical meaning.
Thanks to whoever send this drone up, I love seeing these updates. This should be a pretty amazing structure when it gets closer to completion.
I think “Apple donut” is a superior descriptor than calling it a space ship; here’s why: the venerable Donut Wheel on DeAnza Blvd., an institution in the midst of Apple buildings, and present since Apple’s inception in Cupertino, has been frequented by many of those employees. Let’s honor Apple’s sense of place and history, not just its future.