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Spider Hired to Bring Two Denver Office Buildings Up to Code

September 28, 2005

Seattle, WA - Spider, a division of SafeWorks, LLC, announces the award of the contract to upgrade the façade maintenance systems of two Crescent Real Estate Class A office towers in downtown Denver.

The first building, 707 17th Street, is a 42-story office tower with a unique black façade and challenging architectural features, including an inverted slope at the twentieth level. Spider supplied the original façade maintenance system in 1980, but age and changes to codes and standards have become cause for a replacement system. A new Spider "Manntech" series roof machine, equipped with a drum hoist mounted on the rooftop, will meet the updated ASME A120.1 regulation.

The Johns Manville building, located directly across the street, is a 29-story office tower with a pre-cast concrete façade divided by five foot reflective solar glass windows. Spider will be upgrading the self-powered platform on this building to achieve current codes and standards while abiding by the load rating of the existing davit and socket system.

Crescent Real Estate, the buildings' owner, has turned to Spider for its thorough knowledge of current codes and standards, along with its ability to engineer solutions to accommodate these regulations.

This project is expected to be completed in December, 2005.