Texas Tower (Block 58) by Hines, 47-Story Office Tower

[Luminare 5790]

@hindesky @Purdueenginerd From my eyes it looks like they are getting a floor done between 1 1/2 weeks - 2 weeks. They are at around the 3rd level of parking (9 levels of parking total from the section I remember). You fellas think we should be seeing them get to the actual tower portion around beginning of October? Once they get there it should start rising faster as the floor plates and layouts are much simpler.

[Twinsanity02 1192]

Using an estimate of one floor every 12 days: 26 days for August, 30 days for Sept, perhaps by October 16th they begin on the tower portion. All bets are off if a hurricane sneaks in.

[Purdueenginerd 1459]

3 hours ago, Luminare said:

@hindesky @Purdueenginerd From my eyes it looks like they are getting a floor done between 1 1/2 weeks - 2 weeks. They are at around the 3rd level of parking (9 levels of parking total from the section I remember). You fellas think we should be seeing them get to the actual tower portion around beginning of October? Once they get there it should start rising faster as the floor plates and layouts are much simpler.

 

Im not sure how much faster it will go. Yeah the floor plates will be simpler but... theyre going awfully fast already haha. 

[H-Town Man 4532]

16 hours ago, Luminare said:

@hindesky @Purdueenginerd From my eyes it looks like they are getting a floor done between 1 1/2 weeks - 2 weeks. They are at around the 3rd level of parking (9 levels of parking total from the section I remember). You fellas think we should be seeing them get to the actual tower portion around beginning of October? Once they get there it should start rising faster as the floor plates and layouts are much simpler.

 

That is pretty much what happened with 609 Main. Sped up when they got to the tower portion. I don't think it would be any different here.

Edited August 6, 2019 by H-Town Man

[bobruss 4922]

18 hours ago, enriquewx91 said:

tbh we won't see it from this angle at the rate this is going up. The view will be blocked by the construction

No,  but we'll just get new angles from this view allowing us to see both. I'm confident that with our cadre of cameramen and women,  focused on this mission, we'll have great images of both coming out of the ground. 

[H-Town Man 4532]

There are some interesting photos on this page of the foundation pour for the Allied Bank Building (Wells Fargo Plaza), for those of you interested in foundation pours past and present. The technology has changed quite a bit.

 

http://www.cah.utexas.edu/db/dmr/gallery/gallery_bailey.php?gallery=buildings&collection=e_bb_&q=buildings&t=331&s=120

 

[Highrise Tower 25122]

[samagon 2967]

On 7/26/2019 at 7:47 AM, ekdrm2d1 said:

Saw a Con Forms Spider 18-3 placing boom hovering in the air yesterday.  At very first glace, I thought it was a huge drone

 

 

 

 

the NASA moon lander has become very advanced.

 

I can see in this guys office from my office:

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[X.R. 906]

Holy crap, are they already on floors 6/7? The speed they are working at is pretty unusual, no? 

[Highrise Tower 25122]

[keaton 216]

Unfortunate news this morning:

A man climbed the north crane overnight at some point and fell, killing him, according to police on site this morning. Workers found him dead on the top of the site.

It was grim seeing them use the crane to remove him to the ground.

[Nate99 7535]

That’s awful.

[Twinsanity02 1192]

Was this a worker? 

[keaton 216]

Unknown, but police told me that the first call came in about 6:30 when workers were arriving to the site. The specific wording they used was the man "jumped or fell" after "crawling" on the crane. Sounded like it wasn't a worker to me, but neither police nor the Gilbane rep would confirm.

[hindesky 37690]

The remote Spider cement pump sitting on Travis St.

[CaptainJilliams 954]

On 8/24/2019 at 10:45 AM, keaton said:

Unknown, but police told me that the first call came in about 6:30 when workers were arriving to the site. The specific wording they used was the man "jumped or fell" after "crawling" on the crane. Sounded like it wasn't a worker to me, but neither police nor the Gilbane rep would confirm.

 

Really sad to hear. To me, my initial thoughts are it may have been one of the photographers you see on social media and instagram who scale buildings and cranes to get shots of the city.

[dbigtex56 1028]

On 8/24/2019 at 10:45 AM, keaton said:

Unknown, but police told me that the first call came in about 6:30 when workers were arriving to the site. The specific wording they used was the man "jumped or fell" after "crawling" on the crane. Sounded like it wasn't a worker to me, but neither police nor the Gilbane rep would confirm.

 

Can't find any mention in the local media but that's not too surprising. Not the first time an accidental death has gone unreported.

[Nate99 7535]

If it wasn't a worker, then it was someone being crazy or stupid, no less of a tragedy, but if gravity didn't get them something else would have in short order. 

[Purdueenginerd 1459]

Thats really unfortunate for the victim, and the secondary fact of the workers that have to deal with seeing that. When people fall from those kind of heights, its not like the movies, and is way way uglier. 

 

 

[Highrise Tower 25122]

Another concrete tower pump was installed.

 

[brijonmang 5406]

1 hour ago, ekdrm2d1 said:

Another concrete tower pump was installed.

 

 

Good, it's about time they started making moves to actually get this project moving

[Luminare 5790]

9 hours ago, brijonmang said:

 

Good, it's about time they started making moves to actually get this project moving

 

I know right? They weren't going fast enough. I think they need a third tower crane.

[Highrise Tower 25122]

[MarathonMan 1051]

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/31/business/tax-opportunity-zones.html

 

Houston made the N.Y. Times with the Texas Tower project as part of the “Opportunity Zone” tax incentive program the Trump administration instigated.  I wonder how many Trump or Kushner developments will benefit from this program??

 

EDIT:  The Preston is part of the Opportunity Zone incentive, not Texas Tower.

Edited September 1, 2019 by MarathonMan

[Nate99 7535]

 

[Nate99 7535]

They also removed the scaffolding that was under the lily pad structure at the Milam/Texas corner.

 

Don't know if I would want to use it to store the extend-o-pump and concrete forms, but it must be pretty stout.  

 

[brijonmang 5406]

53 minutes ago, Nate99 said:

They also removed the scaffolding that was under the lily pad structure at the Milam/Texas corner.

 

Don't know if I would want to use it to store the extend-o-pump and concrete forms, but it must be pretty stout.  

 

Well it looks like my drone landing pad has been over engineered just a bit but it's better to be safe than sorry!

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[hindesky 37690]

Main lobby.

[Highrise Tower 25122]

Saw the Spider this afternoon.

 

 

[jermh 706]

 

 

Timelapse of some construction on the tower yesterday.

 

Edited September 13, 2019 by jermh
Fixing Link.

[Highrise Tower 25122]

A few photos I took today.

 

 

 

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During today's Imelda flood.

 

[hindesky 37690]

Unloading rebar.

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My buddy is working the shorter tower crane this week.

 

 

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About to top One Market Square.

 

[hindesky 37690]

Tower crane flying up buckets of concrete for the columns, they use pumps for the floors. Also saw a drone flying around, wonder if it's someone contracted to Hines or a HAIF contributor?

Edited September 28, 2019 by hindesky

[Highrise Tower 25122]

5 minutes ago, hindesky said:

Tower crane flying up buckets of concrete for the columns, they use pumps for the floors. Also saw a drone flying around, wonder if it's someone contracted to Hines or a HAIF contributor?

 

Using drone technology to monitor Texas Tower project

https://dronedj.com/2019/07/02/commercial-property-drone-technology/

 

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“New technologies being used by Houston-based Hines, one of the biggest global developers, include a drone surveillance service provided by an Israeli startup named SiteAware. Several times a week, a drone flies over Texas Tower, a new office building rising in Houston, taking digital images that Hines compares with job specifications to confirm plans have been accurately followed.”

 

 

[hindesky 37690]

13 minutes ago, ekdrm2d1 said:

 

Using drone technology to monitor Texas Tower project

https://dronedj.com/2019/07/02/commercial-property-drone-technology/

 

 

 

That is the same company I came across on the Hines Colombe D' Or project taking pictures of the building to make sure contractors were building according to the blueprints. Neat technology. Workers better be aware if they're goofing off.

[brijonmang 5406]

[bobruss 4922]

Went down today to check on the progress of the Texas Tower, first hand, and it is impressive in person. The way the building sits on the block makes it look overwhelming when approaching from the east or west. It is massive. I also like the detail of the notches in the Travis and Milam sides of the building. It will make adefining crease in the facade of the building, while breaking up the east and west sides, that will really have an impact when the building is glazed and topped out. This is going to be a very impressive structure and will definitely change the overall dynamics of the surrounding blocks. 

[Nate99 7535]

10 minutes ago, bobruss said:

Went down today to check on the progress of the Texas Tower, first hand, and it is impressive in person. The way the building sits on the block makes it look overwhelming when approaching from the east or west. It is massive. I also like the detail of the notches in the Travis and Milam sides of the building. It will make adefining crease in the facade of the building, while breaking up the east and west sides, that will really have an impact when the building is glazed and topped out. This is going to be a very impressive structure and will definitely change the overall dynamics of the surrounding blocks. 

 

Definitely agree. It's going to extend the "canyon" feeling at street level on Travis and Milam given how much it fills up the block and how tall the podium will be.  It's big. 

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[Texasota 2329]

Can they call off the final cladding and leave it exposed concrete with steel stairs like this? Because this is neat.

[mollusk 2224]

2 hours ago, Texasota said:

Can they call off the final cladding and leave it exposed concrete with steel stairs like this? Because this is neat.

 

The cladding may help a bit with LEED certification...