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Fact and Figures Summary
Hyatt Center
71 South Wacker Drive


  • The building site: 61,350 square feet
  • 2700 truckloads to excavate the foundation and basements
  • Height: 49 stories / 704 feet
  • 1,765,000 square feet of space
  • 12,000 tons of structural steel
  • 65,000 cubic yards of concrete
  • 500,000 square feet of curtainwall panels (approximately 7000)
  • From start of caissons to first occupancy: 24.75 months (Nov 7, 2002 thru Nov. 30, 2004)
  • Total labor hours for construction: 1.3 million man hours
  • Highest number of people working on any one day: 800
  • An in-house fitness center for building tenants
  • Catering and restaurant services for building tenants
  • 28 high speed passenger elevators, each with 4000 pound capacity spread over four banks each with specific floor ranges making average wait time interval of 28 seconds
  • 24/7 security command center monitoring all entrances