Comment Re:Live and work in NYC above 150 (Score 2) 172
Standard concrete floors are less than 1 foot thick and under that there are (sometimes) steel beams. But the drop ceilings often hide the beams and the duct work. In my office the drop-ceilings start at around 9 feet and there is about 2 feet of ceiling height above that with both beams and duct work. The building in which I was on the 55 floor had ceiling heights higher than 10 feet and drop ceilings but I didn't want to get mired in estimating details. The purpose of the exercise was to see if a New Yorker, ostensibly living at sea level, could spend the majority of his daily life above the 150 foot mark (as per the poll).
The calculations in the above post were rough estimates.
The calculations in the above post were rough estimates.