Prefab, preassemble, disassemble, barge in, lift, swing, set, fit and connect. Steel erector Barry King underplays the module maneuvers and high-flying acrobatics required to frame Rockefeller University’s 960-ft-long laboratory building in Manhattan.
“The New York Hospital job was really the pioneer,” says King, president of NYC Constructors LLC (NYCC). “We basically copied the scheme.”