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Eh, I think actually the heights has done a rather good job of keeping its well maintained single family homes and leveling homes that have deteriorated beyond reasonable feasibility of repairs. There's a good mix of new and old for many of the residential buildings in the area. As for the families that settled the area. I doubt there are many 100 year old plus families still around from the original housing stock in the area, unless youre referring to the 2nd or 3rd, or 4th generation of people who've lived in the heights now. Business wise, specifically to Shepherd corridor and in the context of 2009. Which buildings were worth saving? You can actually toggle between 2007 and 2017 (in some cases 2019) on Google street view https://www.google.com/maps/@29.7910564,-95.4098949,3a,75y,333h,85.59t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sPgd-am3oxpOtA1JT57nGFw!2e0!5s20071101T000000!7i3328!8i1664?hl=en&authuser=0 And honestly... yeah theres a few run down houses that have been leveled... and to top it off... The current iterations of Shepherd and durham were constructed in the 1960's and didnt even exist in the 1940's. Ariel photography from December 1944 with 2020 map overlay. The vast majority of the buildings lining Sheperd are 1960/1970+ buildings already, with some exceptions at the east side of the road. I'm with @wilcal on this one, I'm not sure which business on Shepherd qualify

@Subdude Fixed it. Expert photoshop skillz

I found this on the wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZIP_Code#Early_history_and_five-digit_ZIP_Codes The "16" was the number of the postal zone in the specific city. By the early 1960s, a more organized system was needed, and non-mandatory five-digit ZIP Codes were introduced nationwide on July 1, 1963. The USPOD issued its Publication 59: Abbreviations for Use with ZIP Code on October 1, 1963, with the list of two-letter state abbreviations which are generally written with both letters capitalized.[4] An earlier list in June had proposed capitalized abbreviations ranging from two to five letters.[4] According to Publication 59, the two-letter standard was "based on a maximum 23-position line, because this has been found to be the most universally acceptable line capacity basis for major addressing systems",[4] which would be exceeded by a long city name combined with a multi-letter state abbreviation, such as "Sacramento, Calif." along with the ZIP Code. The abbreviations have remained unchanged, with the exception of Nebraska, which was changed from NB to NE in 1969 at the request of the Canadian postal administration, to avoid confusion with the Canadian province of New Brunswick.

Man that tower was imposingly large on that side of downtown back in the day.

Yeah, Thats about what I would expect. Touching on structural licencing. I'm registered in about 12 states and I agree with you, I dont like a 3rd party engineer signing and sealing my work and prefer to see my projects end to end. Generally if I have an out-of-state project, I make the effort to get licenced in that state. Even then, My boss has something like 42 states so generally we're covered for out of state projects. We've had projects where a "top dog" structural engineering firm designs really high-level engineering drawings for very unique structures, and then we go through and "finish the design" -- I really am not a fan of that as, similar to the architecture world, the "top dog" structural firm doesnt understand the VE implications or worse, "construct-ability" of a structure. Swinging back to Architecture, Ive been in situations where the "design firm" and Architect of record have butted heads, and its just ugly and difficult to work with at times.

I dont know how it breaks down in the Architecture world specifically from project to project. Ive seen it where the design firm creates renderings, and may do drafting of interior and exterior elevations at the SD level (Schematic Design/drawings for those unfamiliar with the term). Then DD(Design Development/drawings) and CD (Construction Design/Drawings) is handled by the local firm. But the two will work together to make sure the Schematic design, especially with appearances is met in accordance with the over-arching firm. This happens some in the Structural World but it works a little differently.

On a few university project I've worked on. I've seen the design architect is an out-of-country firm, but the project architect/production architect is a local firm. Basically, the Architect of record is a local firm, but the design/appearance of the building is determined by the design architect. It would not surprise me if thats the case here.

I'll volunteer if you need help. I actually volunteered at my office to create a map of all the projects were engineer of record on and your mapping was a bit of inspiration for me haha. I'm still in the 1970's, kind of fun hunting down these old buildings.

They topped out a two story building and put a tree. I love it. 😂

Deep south rigging is lodged in my brain. Was about 200 feet from this disaster when I was still an intern in college. 21 years old at the time. https://www.enr.com/blogs/4-texas-louisiana-stories/post/15448-update-youtube-video-detailing-2-500-ton-crane-s-fatal-collapse-is-authentic

Got them yesterday from my parents!

That's needlessly hostile, especially to the news press, to what will presumably be that guys future neighbors of his property.

I forgot another good example I had where the geotech report was handy. I have a renovation project of a two story building in Dallas. When I was able to recover the structural drawings from the city, the one kind of alarming thing we observed is that it had drilled piers 70 feet down! Which is generally excessive for a 2 story building. The first floor was also called a structural deck, in that its not directly bearing on the soil and is supported by structure. (there was a nice horrifying crawl space I had to get into to make my measurements). As part of the renovation, the owner was creating a large outdoor patio and ordered a geotechnical report to support this structure. The geotechnical engineer found that there was a landfill at the site from 1820-1880 and from 1880 to about 1950 there was cattle slaughter house. There ALSO used to be a small river running through the site which had been filled in in the 19th century. What did this mean? It meant that for about 50'--- the soil was ... actually trash. So when the building was constructed, they drilled piers right through it to native soil to get the engineering values they needed. We could have done that as well, but any soil removed from the site would need to be treated (environmental considerations) and so the owner didn't want 70' piers (lots of soil removed from site). We ended up driving micro-piles which are a different foundation system all together. (they remove less soil). Fundamentally, the geotechnical report altered the engineering of both the original building and our renovation that would not have been predicted if we assumed that soil conditions were identical to adjacent Dallas blocks.

Anyone been to that new BBQ place across from the washington HEB? Saw there was a line out the door this weekend I might check it out. I'm not super into BBQ, but the spot looked interesting. Good location at least.

saw your video on reddit. This sucks for the owner but it sort of cool to see the pavement pushed up like that. Thanks for sharing!