Devon Energy Center

[Rover]

Pretty cool slide show. Thanks for taking the photos and posting.

[UnFrSaKn]

Just in time for getting off work, all the clouds have passed leaving nothing to work with. These are your behind the scenes frustrations of time lapse videography. I'd gladly quit my job if I could get $1200 in donations a month. I take cash, check or PayPal.

[mike1k]

Just got confirmation of 52 floors from a devon empolyee that took a tour of the building, including a mock up of the decor of the floors which was somewhere near the airport. Top two floors are mechanical.

[dmoor82]

^^The saga continues!

[KayneMo]

52 floors?!?! YESSS.

[jn1780]

Just got confirmation of 52 floors from a devon empolyee that took a tour of the building, including a mock up of the decor of the floors which was somewhere near the airport. Top two floors are mechanical.

Sounds about right. The the number that seems to be set in stone is the 850ft height. There seems to be a gray area about classifying floors which leads to people thinking they changed the height of the building. So there's 50 floors which people will actually walk or work on a daily basis and 2 mechanical floors.

[Thunder]

Maybe it was previously 50 with 48 for people and top two for mechanical then they decided to increase to 50 for people and two new floors for mechanical. Shouldn't that increase it over 900 feet?

[warreng88]

Mishap at Devon tower: Piece of metal falls, hits nearby building
By Brianna Bailey
Journal Record
Oklahoma City reporter - Contact 405-278-2847
Posted: 03:28 PM Tuesday, June 21, 2011

A large piece of metal from the Devon tower construction site downtown came crashing through a window of a law office on the 13th story of Corporate Tower Monday evening. (Maike Sabolich)

OKLAHOMA CITY – A large piece of metal from the Devon tower construction site downtown came crashing through a window of a law office on the 13th story of a neighboring office building Monday evening, raining broken glass onto a courtyard below.

Attorney Kenneth Tillotson had just rode the elevator down to the lobby of the Corporate Tower building, 101 N. Robinson Ave., from his office at the Phillips Murrah law firm on the 13th floor at about 7:20 p.m. on Monday when he heard a loud crash.

Exiting the south side of the building, he saw shards of broken glass scattered across a grassy courtyard that butts up against the back of the $750 million, 50-story Devon Energy corporate headquarters construction site at 333 W. Sheridan Ave.

“There was glass raining down and a big piece of metal fell out onto the grass,” Tillotson said.

Looking up, he realized there was a gaping hole on the side of the building 13 stories up where the reception area of the Phillips Murrah office is situated.

Taking the elevator back up to his office, Tillotson discovered the Phillips Murrah lobby covered in broken glass. The crash left a jagged hole in a widow about 3 to 4 feet wide.

The piece of flying debris from the Devon site was a 1-by-3-foot piece of concrete formwork that became dislodged by high winds, said Gavin Kalley, project director for Devon tower contractor Holder-Flintco.

Wind gusts of up to 32 miles per hour were recorded Monday evening at Will Rogers World Airport and a high-wind advisory was in effect for the area earlier in the day, according to the National Weather Service in Norman.

Work crews had just gone through a series of routine safety checks on Monday evening to ensure all building materials on the Devon site were secure when a gust of wind tore the formwork free.

“We immediately investigated to make sure this did not happen again and immediately responded to the incident at Corporate Tower,” Kalley said.

Construction crews at the Devon site conduct thorough safety checks hourly to make sure building materials are secure, he said.

This is the third high-profile mishap at the Devon tower site since construction began there in October 2009. Concrete pillars used in the construction of the Devon tower parking garage came crashing to the ground at the site in February 2010.

A 90-ton crane toppled over at the Devon construction site in March 2010, tumbling into the basement level of the building.

Aside from a few high-publicized incidents, Holder-Flintco has an outstanding safety track record at the Devon site and has instituted a high level of OSHA safety training for workers there, Kalley said.

“From a statistical standpoint, we’re performing on a very high level,” Kalley said. “We have a very successful safety program and we’ve done a lot great training of the work force that we’re very proud of.”

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued Holder-Flintco two safety violation notices at the Devon construction site in August, records show.

The violations included a failure to institute proper safeguards to protect workers on the tower from falls. The other violation was for neglecting to cover up protruding reinforced steel at the site that workers could be impaled on during an accident.

The citations stemmed from a routine OSHA inspection of the Devon construction site and were later dropped after additional talks with Holder-Flintco, Kalley said.

Both OSHA citations were resolved during an informal settlement process, OSHA records show.

The agency had not been notified on Tuesday of the broken window incident near the Devon construction site and has no plans to investigate the matter because no one was injured, OSHA spokesman Juan Rodriguez said.

[OU Adonis]

The crash left a jagged hole in a widow about 3 to 4 feet wide.

Poor lady.

First she loses a husband, then she gets hit by debris.

[TaurusNYC]

Poor lady.

First she loses a husband, then she gets hit by debris.

Oh My God, you just made my day. Literally LaughingOutLoud here.

[ljbab728]

Has anyone else notice that they have slowed down on adding the glass siding since they reached the area where the tower starts to taper?

[UnFrSaKn]

The only thing I got yesterday was a decent amount of video of them putting the glass up on the Rotunda. I got two semi trucks pulling up in front and them unloading the smaller glass panels and then lifting some up to be installed. They also lifted up and added to the top of the Rotunda another one of the things that suspends and adjusts the cables that holds the platform that the workers install glass on. I don't know what they're called. I didn't notice any glass on the building being put up. I figured that they were putting on the Rotunda glass by the order that they get it, instead of doing it row by row. I imagine every single thing there is numbered. Maybe they are all unique.

[earlywinegareth]

a widow about 3 to 4 feet wide.

Well she wasn't exactly easy to miss - no Jenny Craig in her life it seems...

[UnFrSaKn]

8:41am this morning.

[OKCisOK4me]

That is PHAT!

[UnFrSaKn]

Ran across this on Doug's blog looking for something else. Pretty funny now.

http://dougdawg.blogspot.com/2008/03/march-madness.html

Glad it turned out better than this.

[Doug Loudenback]

Ran across this on Doug's blog looking for something else. Pretty funny now.

http://dougdawg.blogspot.com/2008/03/march-madness.html
Oh, the pain, oh the pain.

Glad it turned out better than this.

Oh, the pain ... oh, the pain.

[Thundercitizen]

Oh, the pain ... oh, the pain.

Doug is vigilant...always watching.

[metro]

That is PHAT!

Why is it PHAT?

[Joe Kimball]

Why is it PHAT?

Well, for me, it's a shocking level of detail on such a tall structure. Plus the symmetry of the two angular columns that begin the facets of the crown are framed nicely by the subject at large, and the workers in comparison is the "cherry on top".

To echo the others----that is talented photography, sir. Phat indeed!

[Joe Kimball]

And I am so glad that that elephant-esque prism made it no further than the esteemed Mr. Loudenback's archives.

[HOT ROD]

just a question, any chance the Petroleum Club would move to Devon, at least one floor? Would that be a conflict of interest?

But if it did move to Devon, would the other club (beacon club) move out of OK tower and into the top of Chase and take over Petro's old area?

what was it that made beacon move out of FNC in the first place? Seems like a prime spot, attop a tower with a real BEACON. ...

[David Pollard]

The top of FNC is just screaming to be turned into something elegant and classic like the Top of the Mark in San Francisco. This would be a perfect addition to the city and actually complement the new Devon digs!



All we need now is for the building to be turned into a luxury hotel or high-end condos.

[Doug Loudenback]

just a question, any chance the Petroleum Club would move to Devon, at least one floor? Would that be a conflict of interest?

But if it did move to Devon, would the other club (beacon club) move out of OK tower and into the top of Chase and take over Petro's old area?

what was it that made beacon move out of FNC in the first place? Seems like a prime spot, attop a tower with a real BEACON. ...

The Beacon Club moved over First National's owners not taking care of the building and low expectations that would change. Of course, the beacon on 1st National is the reason for the club's name in the first place.

A clip from this blog article reads this way:

Skipping a decade but along the same vein, Oklahoma City's excellent "Beacon Club" located itself in the top of the 1st National in 1941, below the "beacon." According to the Beacon Club's history page ...

The Club opened in the late 1941 on the 31st floor of the First National Building. All equipment and furnishings were owned and operated by Faber "Goob" Reid and he called his operation the "Rainbow Room."

The club would eventually come to occupy the top 3 stories of the 1st National. But, with the building's decline and it having no apparent prospects for revitalization, the club moved to the Oklahoma Tower in 1997.

The Big Bust. Fueled by the domino effect of July 1982's Penn Square Bank closing and the "Oil Bust" itself, the 1st National Bank, once the state's largest bank with assets reported to be $3.3 billion in 1982, collapsed, as well. The Oklahoman's headlines on July 15, 1986, told the tale:

... and of course it got worse and worse after that.

[UnFrSaKn]

The video coming up next week is the best yet...over 16 min and still adding. If the last two days of the month are good weather-wise then I'm far from done.

Just got back a while ago. Cloudless days make you have to find other scenes with movement. Highway, cars, etc. I got a minute long clip of them adding about 7-10 windows in the SE side. I have a few clips from yesterday of them adding the north side windows (where the web cam views) and they started on the SE corner this morning. They go up remarkably fast. So they haven't stopped at all.