keaton

3 hours ago, ekdrm2d1 said:

Keaton,

 

Are you on the Market Square garage? See you soon

I was on the south end for a bit! sorry I missed you!

5 minutes ago, ekdrm2d1 said:

Keaton,

 

Are you on the Market Square garage? See you soon

I am not, I'm watching from the Rice - but it's had a nice share of folks up there! Perfect temperature after a gloomy morning

And the first batch of concrete is starting now!

A little color that may not come across on the camera feed: there are probably 100-200 workers scattered around the site and spectators lined along the new parking garage to the north.

Happy to do it! 

I can zoom into areas if there's something in particular you want to see. I have some limited zoom options.

1 minute ago, bobruss said:

where are all of the concrete trucks?

 

I haven't seen any arrive yet. Still setting up the pumpers

EDIT: They are starting the street closures early, so the concrete pour is on.

I'm going to do a timelapse from my window. Should be pretty nifty to watch.

With apologies to the group for lurking so long: I live in the Rice and am watching this thing slowly come up.

We were sent this about the concrete pour slated for this weekend:

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The mat foundation for Block 58 is a 12 foot thick steel reinforced concrete foundation that carries the weight of the building tower. The foundation is approximately 14,000 cubic yards of concrete, will weigh over 2,000,000 lbs. and contain approximately 1,500 tons of reinforcing steel. The concrete foundation must be placed in one continuous operation. The concrete pour will utilize six concrete pumps and when all goes well over 800 cubic yards and hour will be put in place. The concrete placement will take between 19 and 21 hours to complete and is scheduled to begin on Saturday Mach 9th at approximately 1:00 AM and will be completed late Saturday night or early Sunday morning. Concrete finishing operations will continue all day Sunday long after the concrete placing operation has been completed.

 

To place the volume of concrete required, there will be a concrete truck entering and leaving the project every 45 seconds on average.  As a result, Travis will be reduced to one lane of traffic between Capital and Prairie; Milam will be reduced to one lane of traffic between Preston and Texas; Texas will be reduced to one lane of traffic between Smith and Travis and Prairie will be reduced to one lane of traffic between Main and Travis and closed between Travis and Milam. The lane closures will go up Friday night and all streets will be returned to service Sunday. There will be police officers at each of the intersections to assist with traffic flow.  

 

We will use six concrete pumps – two pumps on Travis, two pumps on Milam, one pump on Texas and one pump on Milam and each are expected to place over a 125 cubic yards of concrete an hour. We will have light plants set up to assure the work site is well illuminated and that the work is performed safely. Because of the time required and the impact to traffic, this work must be done over a Saturday and Sunday. Unfortunately, the work will be disruptive to residents in adjacent buildings. Vehicular access will be maintained to each of the surrounding buildings, but the reduction in traffic lanes may slow traffic getting to the buildings.

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