900 Monroe
Full-height elevator-shaft wall reinforcement at 900 Monroe was planned around a manufacturer detail and night access.
Delta Structural Technology completed glass fiber composite work for the elevator shaft at 900 Monroe Street in Fort Worth. The proposed strengthening covered the shaft walls through their full height. The project was planned for night work, connecting the reinforcement scope with access and scheduling requirements inside an existing building.
- Market
- Commercial
- Services
- Elevator-shaft glass FRP strengthening
- Location
- Fort Worth, Texas
- Structural members
- Walls
Project challenge
The intended application extended across all walls within the shaft rather than a small isolated surface. Full-height coverage made the application detail and the work sequence important to planning. Night work also created a defined operating window in which the team needed to organize its activities around access to the shaft.
Project approach
Delta proposed a glass fiber composite system for the shaft walls and coordinated an application detail with the manufacturer. That detail was to accompany the proposal and provide the technical basis for installation. The approach therefore connected the overall full-height strengthening objective with a manufacturer-developed application method for the shaft environment.
Delivery and coordination
The planning correspondence identified a night-shift basis and a weekday work pattern. Those were proposed arrangements for carrying out the scope, with the manufacturer’s detail still part of the technical coordination at that stage. The combination of full-height wall coverage and scheduled access made the shaft work a distinct installation package within the building.
Project significance
900 Monroe illustrates how location and access can define a composite-strengthening project. A shaft-wide application needs a clear relationship between the wall coverage, the manufacturer’s detail, and the available working period. The project’s focus was the coordination of those requirements across the shaft height.
