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M5250: Multifamily High-Rise At 5250 Brownway St.
Purdueenginerd replied to houstonfella's topic in Uptown and Galleria Area
Hey! Shopping is pretty exciting for some people... especially on Black Friday- 170 replies
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I was going to go into a long an elaborate post: but wikipedia will pretty much cover what you need to know http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunnel#Construction
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Chevron Skyscraper Proposal At 1600 Louisiana St.
Purdueenginerd replied to tangledwoods's topic in Going Up!
I have several friends who are employees of exxon. All in their 20s. Their reactions range from "moo" To "I dont like it" Anecdotal evidence considering all of them live in Midtown or downtown....- 1,170 replies
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Look at that excitement! Corporate office towers! Such beauty! No seriously, I dont understand why anyone would pay 30 dollars for this.
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Chevron Skyscraper Proposal At 1600 Louisiana St.
Purdueenginerd replied to tangledwoods's topic in Going Up!
I think using the HAIF population is not a statistically representative body of people. All of us here are interested in Houston's architecture. The impact of a suburban campus versus a downtown, skyline changing highrise are of course going to warrent more discussion towards the latter. That being said, I still prefer the Chevron plan.- 1,170 replies
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Chevron Skyscraper Proposal At 1600 Louisiana St.
Purdueenginerd replied to tangledwoods's topic in Going Up!
Chevron's Revenue is 241 billion dollars per year. Net Income: 26 billion dollars per year. This building, is cheeeeeeap!- 1,170 replies
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Hanover West Gray: Multifamily At 1340 W. Gray St.
Purdueenginerd replied to King Owl's topic in Montrose
Are you guys gonna have another dick waving contest? Or do we need to put you in corners of shame- 83 replies
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BLVD Place Mixed-Use: 1700 Post Oak Blvd.
Purdueenginerd replied to Subdude's topic in Uptown and Galleria Area
Project Bluish Glass tower number 250! C'mon architects, pick a different color in photoshop! -
SkyHouse Houston II: Multifamily At 1044 Jefferson St.
Purdueenginerd replied to lockmat's topic in Downtown
Look at post number 151. Thats your form work. The truss elements are only 3-4 feet tall (hard to tell because of the fish eye lenses). You can also tell from the picture theyre not (completely) assembled for the entire floor. As to how they work: Components are assembled together before hand to form a gang form. A gang form is typically defined as a group of unit forms tied together and lifted by crane to the proper spot. They probably have a crew assembling the gang forms on the ground, or offsite. Crane lifts into the correct spot, Concrete pour occurs after rebar placement, and after sufficient curing (not drying) then the components are broken down again, staged, and flown (slang for lifting with crane) down to the ground where the process is repeated. They probably have enough formwork for more than 1 floor, so while things are being staged to take down to the next floor, they probably have the gang forms for the next floor ready to go. Here's a video on how they do it for wall construction: Keep in mind, the dissembling process for wall construction may be different than slab construction. Now, I dont know their formwork system or civil design. So what i'm saying is a bit speculative on my part. Please keep that in mind.- 722 replies
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SkyHouse Houston II: Multifamily At 1044 Jefferson St.
Purdueenginerd replied to lockmat's topic in Downtown
Modular formwork (premade formwork). Yep that'll speed things up.- 722 replies
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Houston Cummunication Tower?
Purdueenginerd replied to nativehoustonion's topic in General Houston Discussions
Yeah, I read that haha. Treasures would be a great addition to downtown commerce would benefit the hotel industry as well -
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Just a correction guys. The FAA doesnt have any power to shut down a project. What happens is the FAA will look a proposal and indicate if that will force them to alter approach and departing vectors to stay within FAA guidelines. If a new building will alter pathways for the airport; it can affect commerce out of that airport in a detrimental way. Normally; at this point Governments will step in and say, "yo-change this building design". The building developer doesnt have to listen to the FAA; they may however listen to the government.
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Houston Cummunication Tower?
Purdueenginerd replied to nativehoustonion's topic in General Houston Discussions
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That building would be pretty baller if it was the tallest in the city. It would look great from every angle around downtown... IMO.
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Where'd you get this rendering?
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Chevron Skyscraper Proposal At 1600 Louisiana St.
Purdueenginerd replied to tangledwoods's topic in Going Up!
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Chevron Skyscraper Proposal At 1600 Louisiana St.
Purdueenginerd replied to tangledwoods's topic in Going Up!
Woo. Looks taller than the 1600 Smith Street High Rise (continental airlines building). If rendering is correct, that puts it more than 730 feet.- 1,170 replies
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Hotel On La Branch Between Capitol St. And Rusk St.
Purdueenginerd replied to Houston19514's topic in Downtown
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Former Exxon Building Conversion To Residential At 800 Bell St.
Purdueenginerd replied to TheNiche's topic in Downtown
Very nice. In my opinion, an upgrade over its current appearance--- which I'm not a huge fan of. My question is, is this an architects weekend project that were seeing or is there substance to possible renovations?- 690 replies
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SkyHouse Houston II: Multifamily At 1044 Jefferson St.
Purdueenginerd replied to lockmat's topic in Downtown
Honestly, If you look at the actual skyscraper component the dimensions of each slab look like around 120 x 75. or 9000 sq foot slab. (http://wulfe.com/Realister/Manager/Property/Skyhouse%20Houston/PDF/Skyhouse.pdf) As context, I work in industrial construction---which is vastly different than commercial construction, so if anyone wants to chime in and correct me... by all means do it. My closest experience was on a coker turnaround (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delayed_coker) where we replaced the entire coker head deck. That was 6000 sq feet. We had to demolish with jackhammers the existing head deck, assemble quite complicated formwork, Place rebar for a 750 PSF two foot thick slab (For comparison, a residential slab would be around 50-100 psf and be in the thickness range of 6'' to 1'), and pour concrete. We did it in about 5-12 hour shifts. ---Including the demo and debris removal. The whole thing depends on manpower though. For my aforementioned project I think we had 75 men scoped for that project (including management and logistics support). Is skyhouse work crews working around the clock? How large and experienced is their crew? Is the financier willing to pay the OT associated with round the clock work? Archfan brings up a good point though, I really dont know if the company building is just a GC or if theyre using their own labor. Good point. Disclaimer: All of this is speculative and intended for conversation only- 722 replies
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They could put retail on the first floor and have the garage behind it. Thats what skyhouse is doing with their north retail area. However, I'm being merely speculative.
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SkyHouse Houston II: Multifamily At 1044 Jefferson St.
Purdueenginerd replied to lockmat's topic in Downtown
I'm "guessing" part of the reason its going up so fast is because they've built it-- 6 times? Hey, cost effective I guess.- 722 replies
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Wells Fargo Plaza: Office Skyscraper At 1000 Louisiana St.
Purdueenginerd replied to Montrose1100's topic in Downtown
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SkyHouse Houston II: Multifamily At 1044 Jefferson St.
Purdueenginerd replied to lockmat's topic in Downtown
I live in midtown right now. I'd consider moving to downtown if the restaurant and social scenes were a little more vibrant. I'll probably wait a few years, (assuming I dont buy in intervening years)- 722 replies