The Buffalo News: Solar City steel rises
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Tuesday, February 24, 2015 - 16:20
The construction of the sprawling SolarCity complex is moving into its next phase, with the first structural steel going up for what will become one of the world’s biggest solar panel factories.
Despite the near-record cold this month and November’s record snowfall, the project remains on schedule, with expectations that SolarCity will be able to start installing some equipment in the $900 million factory early next year, with production reaching full capacity in the first quarter of 2017.
Crews from LPCiminelli, the project’s general contractor, have been working full bore on the 88-acre site at the former Republic Steel plant since September and succeeded in meeting their goal of starting to put up the factory’s structural steel during February. Crews also have nearly completed drilling the 5,500 pilings down to the bedrock 70 feet underground that will support the 1.2-million-square-foot factory’s foundation.
By David Robinson | News Business Reporter on February 24, 2015 - 2:38 PM
