Construction workers in Rio are busy building thirty-one 17-story towers for the 2016 Olympic Games, and the crews are employing a special strategy to deal with the tight schedule.
Five independent teams have been created to enable the work to be done simultaneously, says Maurício Cruz, engineering director for the Olympic and Paralympic Village project in Brazil. Four teams are taking care of an eight-tower condo cluster, while a final team is assigned to build out the area's infrastructure. The civil work includes site preparation, utility work, a 65,000-sq-meter central park and a 20,000-sq-m swimming pool.